From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009)
Summary:
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.283)
Summary:
Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Mar [1863?]
Source of text:
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
Summary:
Encloses a dialogue on species from a New Zealand newspaper [S. Butler’s First dialogue on evolution, from the Christchurch Press].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr [1863?]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176)
Summary:
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864-1 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0602.2; Reel 1089
Summary:
Encloses copy of JH's essay entitled The Yard, the Pendulum, & the Metre... (1863). Speculates on causes for deviation in pendulum measurements. Recommends using torsion gravimeters in 'proposed operation.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.2
Summary:
In response to the gift of a book, JH comments on the philosophy of knowledge, and goes on to say that JH agrees with [John Stuart ?] Mill's rejection of the syllogism as a means of argument. In the postscript, JH comments on the nature of heat.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Aug [1864-5]
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637)
Summary:
Sends a photograph of himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864-11 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0935.2; Reel 1083
Summary:
Committee pamphlet expressed incorrect representation of JH's views on changes in British standards of measurement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1865]
Source of text:
RS Sa.684
Summary:
Fragment of a letter discussing diffraction, JH's son's journey to observe eclipse and strong polarization of sun's corona, evidence of vast solar atmosphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[23 June 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.23
Summary:
Comments on the preparation of an article on light by JH for publication in Good Words.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[11 December 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0734; Reel 1089
Summary:
Just read [?]'s article on [John?] Blackwood. JH's views on effectiveness of [Robert] Peel's act and on relative roles of government and Bank of England in nation's economy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 27
Summary:
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 April 1866]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:
Please thank Dr. Gardner for his 'Calendar for the Correction of Dates.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1866?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[18 June 1866]
Source of text:
Adler Planetarium
Summary:
[Writing to a correspondent in Manchester], apologizes that because of illness JH unable to take chair at 'your College Meeting.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[2 August 1866]
Source of text:
WT 67694
Summary:
Declines to be involved in another [scientific ?] undertaking, as JH's health is too precarious.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.318)
Summary:
Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.
Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].
Working on causes of variability.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017)
Summary:
Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.
Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 [March] 1867
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0636; Reel 1089
Summary:
Received notice to transfer one-fifth of funds from [Mary Anne Babbage's] 1823 marriage settlement to W. H. B. Hollier.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
22 [Mar? 1867]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6)
Summary:
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project