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Faraday0477a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Lindley
Date:
27 January 1831
Source of text:
HL UG MS 2153/5/58
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1034

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Lindley
Date:
25 September 1837
Source of text:
SLNSW ML MS A292, f.317-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1064

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lindley
Date:
[26 August 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.5.15
Summary:

In response to a request, JH provides such details as he can about atmospheric and ground temperatures at the Cape; JH goes on to describe how his flowers brought from the Cape are doing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8772

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lindley
Date:
[3 February 1842]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Summary:

Asks about partially white leaves and about droplets of water forming at the tops of leaves. Has been studying the effects of spectral rays on vegetable colorings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
8 [Apr 1843]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 189–90)
Summary:

CD sends seeds found by W. Kemp of Galashiels with explanation and request that they be planted and a report sent to him, so that Kemp may publish his discovery if results are interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8773

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lindley
Date:
[28 May 1843]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens
Summary:

Thanks for the deodar seeds sent; accepts JL's offer of some young deodar plants. Needs instructions on planting these. Does JL have a copy of JH's 'On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours, and on Some New Photographic Processes'?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8776

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lindley
Date:
[6 January 1844]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens (draft: RS:HS 11.231 & 22.221)
Summary:

[Responding to JL's 1844-12-30], declines JL's request that JH write a series of articles on meteorology, because of JH's need to work on the manuscript for JH's Cape Results. Hopes eventually to write on meteorology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-1051

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Lindley
Date:
16 January 1846
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-999

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
[c. 10 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 191)
Summary:

CD sends a copy [of South America] to Gardeners’ Chronicle and refers to a passage on Patagonian salt; asks for backing and specific information supplementing his suggestion that an added chloride would increase the salt’s preserving power.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2244

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Lindley
Date:
27 December 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, MS Letters to Lindley, A-K
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-59-02-05a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Lindley
Date:
5 February 1859
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Archives. Letters to John Lindley, vol. 2 (L-Z) ff. 659-660."Folios" 659 and 660 are in fact a single folded sheet. The text of the letter begins on the front of f. 660, with postscripts continued on the back of f. 659. The front of f. 659 is occupied by the illustration shown below engraved by Frederick Grosse and signed by him ‘F. Grosse [l/c]’, which here has been reduced in size (see 59-02-05a_image01.jpg). The 'Gouty-stem tree' depicted is Adansonia gregorii, formally described by M (B57.01.01, p. 14) from specimens collected near the Victoria River during the North Australian Exploring Expedition.  The illustration is annotated (by J. Lindley?), 'see also Mitchells volumes'. Lindley named another Australian 'bottle tree', Delabchea rupestris, in Mitchell (1848), p. 154-5; it is illustrated on p.154
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193)
Summary:

Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.

Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
25 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 194)
Summary:

Sends thanks for an informative letter;

would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195)
Summary:

CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.

Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
16 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 197)
Summary:

Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 198)
Summary:

Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.

Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
24 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 199)
Summary:

Delayed thanking JL for two notes until he heard from Hooker about Acropera luteola; had no idea A. luteola was not a well-known name.

Cites his reasons for identifying A. loddigesii as male; hopes for a Gongora flower from Hooker which, JL suggested, may be the female.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
28 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 200)
Summary:

Thanks JL for information about Acropera luteola.

Also thanks for the Gongora; cannot avoid the impression it is male.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3723

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
14 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 192)
Summary:

Thanks JL for review [of Orchids, Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863]; CD published almost by accident, having been led on in part by encouragement from JL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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