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DCP-LETT-4025

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
5 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.6-10 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.6-7, letter ff.8-9, address envelope f.10))
Summary:

Accepts offer of £5 [for remaining stock of Geology of "Beagle"].

Orders postage stamps for son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4030

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Benge Dobell
Date:
6 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 389
Summary:

Thanks for information [on regeneration quotation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11427

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.338
Summary:

Sending a paper he has written on his ozone experiments; please communicate it to the R.S.L. if JH thinks it worthy. Would JH request the R.S.L. to re-suspend EL's certificate as he seems certain of some support from Council. Will soon complete his work on ferns.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1978

From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/105, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4036

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 114–16
Summary:

Lyell’s position on mutability.

Directions for care of hothouse plants.

Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.

JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5344

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 March 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 114-16
Summary:

Refers to paper by F. Smith on the distribution of ARW's Hymenoptera.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4029

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 38
Summary:

Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].

Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4028

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289)
Summary:

Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".

Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.

Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.

Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.

Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4031

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
6 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 93: B66–8, B71
Summary:

Answers JS’s criticism of natural selection, which he doubts JS understands. CD does not believe in an "innate selective principle".

To understand "utility" JS should read CD on correlation.

Origin of maize: no longer thinks husked form was wild because of Asa Gray’s evidence on its variability.

Has information from Thomas Rivers on weeping habit in trees.

JS’s experiments on coloured primroses.

Encloses bibliographical note on Passiflora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1598

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[6 March 1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS374A
Summary:

Supports G. P. Bond of Harvard College for foreign membership of R.S.L.; proposes H. E. Sainte-Claire Deville for the Rumford Medal, for his development of a high temperature laboratory furnace applied to metallurgy and the 'disseverance' of the hydrogen and oxygen of water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7152

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.361
Summary:

Hopes all is well. Has not seen the point about James Challis to which JH refers, but Challis has produced strange theorems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10182

From:
Amédée Victor Guillemin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.69
Summary:

Is grateful for the Memoirs. Hopes that JH will think his own work worthwhile when it appears.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP6978

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Henry Gurney
Date:
8 March 1863
Source of text:
Barclays Group Archives: 1248-335 (1)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4033

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
9 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 138)
Summary:

Has quoted WDF on crossing white and slate muscovy ducks [Variation 2: 40]. When not crossed, do these breed true?

Will also quote him on Mr Woodd’s white ewes that produced black lambs by a ram with only black spots [Variation 2: 30].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6451

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.219
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's report on his paper. Regarding the plates for this paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4032

From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1863
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181:6v)
Summary:

Cheque for books, stamps for CD’s son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5030

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Will send portion of copied manuscript [of Variation 2: 8–10] for WB to examine. Asks about inherited abnormalities of the eye.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1979

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
10th March 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/187, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel9533

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.263
Summary:

Book he intended to write has had to be postponed as he has been asked to prepare a second edition of his Weather Book. Sends a proof of the revision of the 18th chapter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4034

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
10 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.11-15 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.11-12, letter ff.13-14, address envelope f.15))
Summary:

Receipt for cheque enclosed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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