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DCP-LETT-4727

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Oct 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 328
Summary:

Reports that dogs caught in the act of sodomy have been attacked by their fellows, who mutilate the offender’s genitals.

Gives a description of the nature and occurrence of the wild Bos of Formosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4904

From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201
Summary:

Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.

Fascinated and delighted by Origin

and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2427

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.276
Summary:

Sends, for JH's signature, request from daughter of the late W. R. Hamilton for continuance of Hamilton's pension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4905

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 310
Summary:

Has returned from holiday. Family news.

Concern over Hooker’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4906

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: B27–30
Summary:

Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.

Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].

Book of travels postponed indefinitely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1867

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 October 1865
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B27-30
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 59-60
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 165-166]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 276
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 276
Summary:

Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.

Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11282

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.185
Summary:

Sends a copy of the address of the President of the B.A.A.S. at Birmingham, also an Aylesbury newspaper containing the funeral sermon on Admiral W. H. Smyth. Misses Smyth very much. Hopes JH is well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4908

From:
Charles Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 147
Summary:

Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2544

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.453 (C: RS:HS 24.123)
Summary:

JH's daughter Maria is getting married. JH has been ill. The Iliad translation is almost finished.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1956

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of the Intellectual Observer
Date:
[3 October 1865]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.35
Summary:

A French civil engineer having proposed in the previous issue of the IO the idea of supporting roofs on the principle of the suspension bridge, JH reports that JH came up with this idea in 1836 and provides a sketch of such that JH made in that year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3097

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.262
Summary:

Was in Paris when JH's letter arrived. Will print JH's article. Asks if there are changes to be made. Discusses future project Physique sociale, which will include theory of probability applied to ethics and political science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4909

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223)
Summary:

Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.

The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.

Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4568

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Date:
4 October 1865
Source of text:
Williams et al. (1971), 2: 1022
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4504

From:
Jacob Tomlin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.439
Summary:

Requests JH's opinions on his theories of origins of language. Believes Hebrew is the root of all languages.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2545

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.454
Summary:

Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4911

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Butler
Date:
6 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 34486 D ff. 56–7)
Summary:

Thanks SB for letter of 1 October.

Returns the printed letter in which SB replied to the Bishop [of Wellington, N. Z.]; it amused him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4087

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.97
Summary:

Asks if JH anticipated the results of W. L. Newman's work on lens curvature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-65-10-06a

From:
Frederick Barlee
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 October 1865
Source of text:
CSO letterbook, vol. 39, no. 449, State Records Office of WA, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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