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FVM-60-09-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Macadam
Date:
September 1860
Source of text:
MS 11663 Royal Society of Victoria records, box 2/1, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0298

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[September 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.225)
Summary:

Discusses at length CL’s criticisms of natural selection.

Comments on possible former connection between the Galapagos and South America.

Discounts survival of mammals on atolls.

Discusses reptile origin of mammals.

Discounts development of a mammal on an island and the descent of mammals from a bird.

The antiquity of islands.

Comments on bats of New Zealand. Geographical distribution of seals. Discusses Amblyrhynchus.

Glad CL will read his MS on origin of dogs [Variation 1: 15–43].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3840

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
1 September 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/5, f.55
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12383

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
W. Paterson
Date:
[1 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.240 & 23.305
Summary:

Thanks for letter regarding his prediction of the floods. May be partly to blame as he did mention certain happenings that could be the result of solar phenomenon. Comments on this. If WP communicates this to a paper would like two or three copies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2904

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Regrets he has nothing that he could contribute to the Field and cannot spare the time to work out anything on bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7122

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.337
Summary:

Is he thinking of letting Francis Baily's house at Tavistock Place as he knows someone who is desirous of renting it. Was able to walk two miles at a quick pace yesterday. Rest of his family are at the seaside.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-60-09-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
2 September 1860
Source of text:
Q60/7867, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2905

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 73
Summary:

CD has a low opinion of British entomologists.

Lyell’s ingenious difficulties with natural selection show he is in earnest.

Asks JDH to observe beetles and variation of stripes in mules on his Syrian tour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3841

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
4 September 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7123

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[4 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.307
Summary:

Selling house [in London]; comments on H. S. Boase's writing on annuities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5605

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jean Baptiste Biot
Date:
[4 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.94a & 23.306
Summary:

Was very pleased to receive another of JB's works. Glad to be associated in his revelations concerning molecular and polarization powers. Recall their past meetings and hopes to renew acquaintance in Paris at some future date.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12384

From:
W. Paterson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.241
Summary:

Thanks for valuable and interesting letter; has sent copies to the Glossop Record and Manchester Examiner and will send copies of the papers should the letter be printed. Will be glad to know the results of his valuable observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7124

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 September 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.338
Summary:

Knew he would get a speedy answer. Quick, the Bristol bookseller, has sent him an edition of Francis Walkingame's Arithmetic. Thinks JH is right to sell Francis Baily's house. G. B. Libri may wish to buy. His puns are unavoidable. Hopes JH will have his house valued.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3842

From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 September 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/5, f.58-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2906

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
5 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Discusses Spiranthes. Did AGM see dipterous insects insert proboscis?

Asks for information about Epipactis.

Describes fertilisation of Orchis pyramidalis.

Has received moth with pollen from O. pyramidalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2906F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bookseller.
Date:
6 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Asks that Fraser’s Magazine for July or the review from it on Origin (Hopkins 1860) be sent to Asa Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2908

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 74
Summary:

Thanks JDH for agreeing to observe coats of asses and mules in Middle East.

Asks for observations on vigour of plants as JDH ascends mountains.

Ad hominem article in Athenæum [review of John Tyndall, Glaciers of the Alps, 1 Sept 1860, pp. 280–2].

Reports extensive experiments on Drosera.

Observations on orchid anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
6 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Etty [Henrietta Darwin] much improved.

Reference to his "hobby of striped asses".

Sceptical of JBI’s "curious stories" on spirit-tapping: "believe nothing one hears & only half of what one sees".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1727

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editor of the Times
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/6/5/1/9-17; (8 September 1860), p. 8, RI; The Times
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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