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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 August 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/138
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.366
Summary:
Wife and family are on holiday at Portmadoc. Obtains his rhymes from Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England. Relates a tale of how a priest tricked a farmer in medieval times.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 277, 277/1
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Ficus experiments confirm CD’s supposition that insects visit Melastoma for nectar, but HC thinks pollen-seekers fertilise the flowers.
Maranta fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 August 1863
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.25
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.304
Summary:
Invites Herschels to visit Wrottesley [Hall, Staffordshire] to witness James Glaisher's 'last high Balloon Ascent' from Wolverhampton on 13 Aug.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Mallet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
10 Aug 1863
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 174, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
11 August 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 112-14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 August 1863
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12–13 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 202
Summary:
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl von Martius
Date:
12 August 1863
Source of text:
Martuisiana, II, A, 2, Handschriften-Abteilung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 August 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.145, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.110
Summary:
Additional information is provided to that sent by E. J. Stone [see ES's 1863-7-9].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.259
Summary:
Regarding William Lassell's nebulae drawings in the R.A.S.'s Memoirs. House of Commons action concerning 'Weights and Measures.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.260 (C: RGO 6.380.267 inc)
Summary:
Has climbed Ben Nevis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.305
Summary:
Invites Herschels to view James Glaisher's next balloon ascent, sometime after 20 Aug. Glaisher's report to B.A.A.S. on eight ascents is just out. JW identifies rapid ascent as cause of observation errors. Predicts adoption of imported [metric] 'Decimal Scale' from Continent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.296)
Summary:
Congratulates CL on finding Arctic shells.
Comments on paper by E. B. Hunt ["On the origin, growth, substructure and chronology of the Florida reef", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210].
Mentions J. D. Dana’s health.
George Bentham’s statement on species [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix].
Praises Bates’s book [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
14 August 1863
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 458
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 253
Summary:
Sends two interesting cases: a flamingo with barnacles covering its legs
and castrated wild asses of Kutch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 15 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 15 August 1863, p. 773
Summary:
Reports on the appearance, in a gravel walk near his house, of an orchid, Epipactis latifolia, never seen in his neighbourhood before. Asks whether a seed could have been blown from a distance and germinated during a season when the walk was neglected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 August 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0036; Reel 1062
Summary:
Charles Few will send deed for JH's signature. It transfers property of CB's sister [Mary Anne Hollier] in Cardiff to Marquis of Bute [J. P. C. Stuart]. Expects no further changes in trust and no more troubles for JH. Saw Alexander Herschel's work on 'shooting stars' published by B.A.A.S. Illness of CB's son [Henry P. Babbage] in India. CB's latest book.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project