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Herschel10536

From:
George C. Hodgkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.413
Summary:

Would like his views on an actinometrical scheme. Has been busy over the affairs of the late Sir James C. Ross.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2009

From:
Mary Adair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4328

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
19 May 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/3/1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4329

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Crookes
Date:
19 May 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 A35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4171

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 175: 1
Summary:

Spoke on Moulin-Quignon Jaw before Académie des Sciences.

Thanks CD for photograph [of Niata skull].

Controversy on species fixity [at Société d’Anthropologie].

Sends photographs of Mouin-Quignon Jaw.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2010

From:
George Hector Tyndale
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 20th 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1//56; MS JT/1/TYP/5/1655-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4330

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
20 May 1863
Source of text:
Signatures Gallery
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP3894

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 May [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: JDH/2/1/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4173

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 106
Summary:

Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4172

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 157
Summary:

Returns CD’s pamphlets.

Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.

Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.

Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4174

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 181, DAR 177: 88
Summary:

Supports, in his orchid paper, CD’s view that sterility occurs at random [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].

Cannot get his Drosera paper published [abstract in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 May [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 711–13)
Summary:

Natural selection implies that a form remains unaltered unless an alteration is to its benefit. This is not inconsistent with some forms remaining stable for long periods. Natural selection must at present be grounded entirely on general considerations. Of details we are still greatly ignorant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-05-22

From:
Henry Barkly
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 May 1863
Source of text:
Unit 2, p. 8, VPRS 1092 Governor's letter books, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4177

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 90
Summary:

J. H. Balfour has arranged a position for him at a Cinchona nursery. Reluctant to take this position in part because of his experiments for CD.

Asks CD’s advice and solicits his aid in finding a better colonial position. James McNab mistreats him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4182

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23–4 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 107
Summary:

Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4134

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–7 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 141–2
Summary:

Encloses his notions [missing] on John Scott’s offer; some points in explanation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-05-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Barkly
Date:
23 May 1863
Source of text:
National Archives, London CO 309/63, Despatches, January to 11 August 1863, f. 295, enclosure to despatch no. 33 of 23 May 1863
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
23 May [1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139)
Summary:

Health has been poor but eczema is improved.

A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 194
Summary:

Seeks advice for John Scott on job offer in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE534

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 May 1863
Source of text:
148, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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