From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 73
Summary:
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B35
Summary:
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Martyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.23
Summary:
Is now reading JH's article on Light in the May number of Good Words. Gives his own physiological and phrenological cause of color blindness and cites an example in the Rev. F. Drew.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 239–40
Summary:
They have left Kew to improve J. D. Hooker’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
7 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 324
Summary:
May his son George call for advice on his career?
CD has been ill for past four months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 245
Summary:
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[10 September 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0731; Reel 1089
Summary:
Confirms receipt of journals sent to JH by LQ. Calculations of probabilities for shots to hit targets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[12 September 1865]
Source of text:
WT 67430.2
Summary:
Explains, according to the laws of probability, how the arrows should have been distributed on the archery target at St. Leonard's, and compares that with the actual distribution.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.379
Summary:
W. R. Hamilton and W. H. Smyth are dead. Corresponded with Hamilton for 30 years though only met him once. Has before him the proofs of his own paper on the origin of the + and - signs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 235–6
Summary:
J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;
he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1865]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:
Friction between Eastern Province and Western Province in Parliament causes delay in J. S. Parlby case.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Syme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.253
Summary:
Discusses several causes of light disturbing aim in rifle-shooting. Hopes JH will be able to enlighten JS and others on this subject.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[14 September 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #43
Summary:
Has received packet mentioned in 1865-8-14. Lists works received. Gives lengthy explanation of the error made in the target example. Asks AQ to append a note, stating that JH is aware of the fallacious answer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[14 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.119
Summary:
About old friends, alive or dead; comments on a puzzle in probability; returns to JH's old haunts.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Lady Helen Bayley Hamilton
Date:
[14?] September 1865
Source of text:
TCD 7762-72:1684
Summary:
Expresses condolences on death of William Hamilton, mentioning his work and character.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Ellen Toynbee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.441
Summary:
Expresses gratitude over JH's sympathy for ET's father's death. Describes his last days.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
18 September 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/205, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: B25–6
Summary:
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Edwin Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.274
Summary:
On behalf of WH's mother, thanks JH for condolences on death of WH's father, W. R. Hamilton. Recalls boyhood visits to Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
20 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project