From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 196
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 October 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 249, 249a
Summary:
Darwin tells Hooker he has sent ARW 8 copies of the offprints of Darwin & Wallace (1858).
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 October 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 30
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 249
Summary:
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
[John Griffith?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0933; Reel 1083
Summary:
Regrets being absent when JH and sons called at [JG]'s home. Hopes to show JH some peculiar electrical phenomena that [JG] observed. Encloses two letters from [W. H.] Miller.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.331
Summary:
Is pleased to hear of his support for the Young Men's Association at Leeds. Is reading the new edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Skeffington Poole
Date:
13 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks about Indian horses. Encloses questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[13 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.243
Summary:
On the definition of an island, and an invitation to lecture about a comet.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[13 October 1858]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 1 (Oct. 29, 1858), 86
Summary:
Discusses the use in photography of a metallic substance named Junonium.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Crookes
Date:
[13 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.306
Summary:
Has just returned home and found the Photographic News and the queries regarding chemical experiments and photography. Gives details, but regrets he has not published much on it yet as he is still experimenting.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
13 October 1858
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.125, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. H. Balfour
Date:
14 October 1858
Source of text:
Library, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 105
Summary:
Discusses lists of fish and British birds and inability to attend previous meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Provides details of trip to the Paris Exposition.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Oct 1858
Source of text:
131, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.317
Summary:
Sending a query regarding JH's philosophy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 686)
Summary:
At Hooker’s request, sends his copy of Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)], "shamefully scribbled over".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Provenance unknown
Summary:
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
15 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 34
Summary:
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 October 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered folio after f. 44
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Crookes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.307
Summary:
Thanks for letter. Will insert the information in a forthcoming issue of the Photographic News. Awaits with interest news of the new metals discovered by JH. Would like a small quantity of Junoniate of soda.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 230
Summary:
Has examined feet of many partridges, but has not been able to obtain any quantity of mud from them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
