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DCP-LETT-3365

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
[c. 17 Feb 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 162
Summary:

Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2073

From:
Friederich Eduard Reusch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Febr. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/17, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4411

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 26
Summary:

Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8351

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Hodgson
Date:
[18 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.153 (C: RS:HS 24.31)
Summary:

Charles Pritchard was wrong in ascribing priority for diagonal reflecting telescope in Pritchard's address to R.A.S. As early as 1825, JH was first to use diagonal reflector. Describes its construction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000920

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
19 February 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/195, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-4412

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20–]22 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 221a–c
Summary:

Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.

Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.

Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?

Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4530

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.88
Summary:

Richard Hodgson claims to have invented the diagonal solar eyepiece despite JH's description of it in Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4413

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 186–7
Summary:

Sends a Corydalis.

Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.

JDH’s opinion of Germans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4432

From:
James Dickson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7728

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.6; Reel 10
Summary:

Send JH's manuscript immediately, or JS must postpone JH's article for next issue. Received Henry Draper's article on 'Silverised Glass Telescopes & Celestial Photo[graphy]' mentioning JH and 'Miss Herschel.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC235

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
20 February 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks his Uncle, Reverend John Gunn, for a copy of his work: GEOLOGY OF NORFOLK. JDH sends Gunn Sir Edward Frankland's hypothesis on the glacial epoch. [Leonard] Horner is 80 & dying. JDH saw [Charles] Lyell, who was in shock about the bone caves in Borneo. Mentions subscriptions in support of Bishop [John William] Colenso. JDH's Father William Jackson Hooker is well. JDH is going to [Sir Joseph] Prestwitch's lecture on flint implements. Asks when Gunn is coming to London, suggests he attends upcoming Royal Society parties. Discusses: latest additions to his own & Francis 'Frank' Darwin's collections of Wedgewood pottery; a medallion of William Gifford 'Giffy' Palgrave made by [Thomas] Woolner; & [Sir Roderick Impey] Murchison's butter boats.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-000921

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
21 February 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/196, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel4545

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.89
Summary:

Richard Hodgson pursues claim to invention of the diagonal solar eyepiece while claiming that JH disclaimed the invention.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-M64-02-22

From:
Charles Darling
To:
the Duke of Newcastle
Date:
22 February 1864
Source of text:
National Archives, London, CO 309/66, Despatches, January to April 1864, ff 74 - 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-02-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Euphemia Henderson
Date:
22 February 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M41, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-02-22a

From:
Henry Warde
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 February 1864
Source of text:
No. 23, unit 2, p. 253, VPRS 1092 Governor's letter books, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel14350

From:
William Stronach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1864-2-22 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0511; Reel 1093
Summary:

Forwards WS's observations of cloud cover in Banffshire during full moons of Dec. 1863, Jan. 1864, and Feb. 1864, as suggested by JH in Good Words.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-64-02-23a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Warde
Date:
23 February 1864
Source of text:
M2164, unit 18, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-64-02-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Sizar Elliott
Date:
23 February 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M200a.6, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel4887

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.274
Summary:

Regarding the transit of Mercury. Error in calculating the pound weights.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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