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Herschel6449

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.217
Summary:

James Challis has informed him that J. C. Adams is to be the new Observer at Cambridge. Does not see how he himself can ever obtain the post. Seems likely that he may give up the profession.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 89
Summary:

Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12239

From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.96
Summary:

Thanks for the case of wine. Saw Alexander Herschel this morning and is getting some information from him. Has been on board the Warrior.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (52)
Summary:

Has received Chauncey Wright’s article.

Reports on favourable response to AG’s pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3961

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Grey
Date:
12 March 1861
Source of text:
Bod MS Autogr b.3 f.49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3962

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Paolo Volpicelli
Date:
12 March 1861
Source of text:
ANL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240)
Summary:

Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].

Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3963

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 March 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.168
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2024

From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.56
Summary:

Thanks JH for a memoir on the projection of a sphere. Expresses the wish that map-making, so neglected, be taken up thoroughly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
14 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b)
Summary:

CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.

Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3964

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 March 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/410, f.384-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1401

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.44
Summary:

About a request of JH for some palladium from the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-977

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
14 March 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIO.61
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3089

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 171.1(3): 95
Summary:

Asks for a testimonial for Edward Newman.

Discusses the Origin, considers natural selection works well when applied to the evolution of nations and groups of men; on the other hand feels the classification of mineral elements is a damaging analogy as it parallels organic classification but could not be derived by any evolutionary means.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3965

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
15 March 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.169-70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3966

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
15 March 1861
Source of text:
HL UG MS 2153/5/58
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4305

From:
Thomas Collins Simon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 March [1861?]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (97)
Summary:

Tells JH that he can be ready to see him at any time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP3351

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Sims
Date:
15 March 1861
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 39168 ff. 2-27
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 39168 f. 28
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 73-83]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Faraday3967

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
16 March 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/410, f.386
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel9816

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.151
Summary:

Forgot to reply to his letter as he locked it away. Regarding the supply of oxygen. Does not think it applicable in the case of a confinement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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