From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
16th March 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/523, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.393a (C: RI 523)
Summary:
Remarks on upcoming lecture of JH's son [Alexander], and on glacial movement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 174: 5
Summary:
Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Date:
16 Mar 1863
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (II–III–120: 67)
Summary:
Thanks Academy on his election as a Corresponding Member.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184
Summary:
RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[17–24 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237
Summary:
Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[17 March 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 71
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
17 March 1863
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 205, no. 536, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, N.Z
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 187
Summary:
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
17 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291)
Summary:
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Locock
Date:
17 March 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Cornelia Augusta Hewett Crosse
Date:
17 March 1863
Source of text:
Hunt MS, BuL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Percy
Date:
17 March 1863
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 461-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 150
Summary:
Bee species of different sizes build cells the same size.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas White Woodbury
Date:
[after 17 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
International Bee Research Association, Eva Crane Library
Summary:
Thanks for the artificial comb.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 March 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 93-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 March 1863
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.362
Summary:
Sends an extract from J. J. Lalande's article on planets from the Encyclopédie méthodique. Sends two of his own theorems.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (58)
Summary:
Discusses the meaning of C. K. Sprengel’s term "dichogamy". Dichogamous plants are functionally monoecious; Primula is functionally dioecious.
Reports Hermann Crüger’s observations of Cattleya and of bees pollinating Catasetum. Crüger will observe Melastomataceae.
Has built a hothouse.
Fears Amsinckia cannot be dimorphic.
Ill health slows his work on Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.265
Summary:
Thanks for his opinion; it will save him from exposure, but it is too late to get the book altered. Comments on some parts of JH's book on meteorology. The atmosphere appears to be smaller in extent than John Dalton conceived.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project