From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[Apr 1850 – Jan 1851]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Edward Cowper
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 April 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1850]
Source of text:
RGO 6.143.9
Summary:
Comments on a number of possibilities for the post at Trivandrum [see JH's 1850-3-20].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
April 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: KLDC10179
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.148
Summary:
Giving his views on the proposed supply of a large reflector for the Cape Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 April 1850]
Source of text:
RGO 6.143.11
Summary:
Thanks GA for his 1850-4-1, and provides details of a likely candidate.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1850
Source of text:
DAR 77: 168–9
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions regarding impregnation of peas, beans, cabbages, and other plants by insects, wind, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:
Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Thomas Martin
Date:
5 April 1850
Source of text:
Bury St Edmunds Public Record Office FL586/13/1: 21
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
L. H. Robson
Date:
[5 April 1850]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.2
Summary:
Sends some post office stamps to pay for a 'certificate'.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
5 April 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.273, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to present General Jung Bahadur Rahan [Rana] Prime Minister of Nepaul [Nepal], his brothers, & other members of the Nepaul mission. JDH is indebted to JB for his 1848 Nepal trip. JB is also a friend to [Brian Houghton] Hodgson, [Archibald] Campbell & [Charles] Thoresby. JDH asks that they are shown the Himalayan plants [at RBG Kew] & that WJH takes a drive with them from Kew Gardens to Richmond Hill. Captain Kavanagh accompanies the gentlemen & can make arrangements. JDH suggests Dr [Nathaniel] Wallich & Royle meet the party at the Gardens.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Warton Jones
To:
Royal Society Grants Committee
Date:
5 April 1850
Source of text:
MM/21/72, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Wilhelm Martin Logeman
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 April 1850
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/4/2a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.23
Summary:
Letter of thanks and good wishes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
C. Gubbins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.150
Summary:
Has just received the Admiralty Manual. Thinks it would be helpful if some tables for determining the heights of mountains by means of the barometer could be included in the next edition. Points out an error in the Nautical Almanac.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 and 7 Apr 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.
JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.
Argument with Falconer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.23a
Summary:
Letter of thanks and good wishes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 April 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.274-276, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Charles Darwin [CD] has not been absent from JDH's thoughts during the long break in their correspondence. He probably spoke too strongly about CD's species work & barnacles. speculates that CD was once prone to theoretical considerations about species & unaware of certain difficulties which JDH thought a more intimate acquaintance with species might clear up. Hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD's theories have progressed but JDH is not converted. He thought the transitions from one form to another in Sikkim would be more apparent. CD reasons rightly about JDH's Yangma valley; it is undoubtedly a vast moraine. He rejects the Himalayas as an independent chain of mountains & seeks the axis of the great mountain system between the Yarou river & the plains of India. He considers the glaciers of the Himalayan range unrivalled & is convinced they are receding. Explains that it is a double chain likes CD's Andes. [Thomas] Thomson [TT] & [Hugh] Falconer [HF] both regard the greatest Asiatic axis as a sub meridional one. The whole mountain system is incredibly complicated & he exceedingly doubt's Humboldt's system of six Mountain chains. Letter continues under date of 7 Apr. JDH now with HF at Honorable East India Company Botanic Gardens. HF had kept all his letters & overland parcels for five months due to insane procrastination but is now forgiven. HF's society is as ever delightful. HF no longer associates with the Asiatic Society. JDH received CD's Feb letter today & learned that the cold water system has done him much good but is not a cure, JDH sends congratulations on the Darwins' seventh child. JDH came to Calcutta [Kolkata] to persuade Jung Bahadur [JB] to let him travel in Nepal but JB cannot guarantee his safety while absent in England. JDH will therefore go instead to Sylhet then the Khassya [Khasia] Hills & Munnipore [Manipur] with [TT].
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Wynne
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/5/386-7, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
7 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:
Thanks for the information about a possible investment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project