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
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 September 1865
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B25, B26
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 55
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 162-163]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
19 September 1865
Source of text:
L65/8774, unit 106, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
19 September 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday 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
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Cajetan von Felder
Date:
20 September 1865
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418399
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418399
Summary:
Has sent copy of his paper on the Papilionidae. Regrets complications of synonymy arising from Felder publishing ARW's new discoveries as part of Felder's Voyage of the Novara. This produces issues as to priority of names. Includes concordance list of Lepidoptera species described by both Felder and ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.380
Summary:
Has no information about H. T. Colebrooke. Has been corresponding with T. B. [?] Macaulay (1st Baron Macaulay) regarding the marriage of Isaac Newton's niece. Has JH heard the story of George III and his madness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 September 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 September 1865
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 September [1865]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 56-58
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 163-164]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 September 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 174-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 237–8
Summary:
J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Sept [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56)
Summary:
Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.
Belief in value of travel journals.
Current reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 190
Summary:
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
an unidentified correspondent
Date:
23 September 1865
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 477
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
23 September 1865
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1905). In: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions . Vol. 2. London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 52-54]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[24 September 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters