From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
December 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/206, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Grey
Date:
1 December 1865
Source of text:
Grey Papers, GL M50(7), Auckland Public Library, Auckland
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Isaac Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.274
Summary:
Is grateful for his copy of the catalogue of nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Burn
Date:
2 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 4 (photocopy)
Summary:
Enters Francis Darwin at Trinity College, Cambridge. Encloses certificate from Alfred Wrigley and £20 entrance and caution money. Wants Francis to have rooms in College.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 152, 152/1
Summary:
Has been writing a review of CD’s "Climbing plants" for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 55–65].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 December 1865
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Francis R. Drew
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.503
Summary:
Outlining the state of his own perception in regard to colors and harmony. Where can he find JH's published views on heat?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Pollard Pattison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1865
Source of text:
DAR 174: 29
Summary:
An actuary wants to know whether the probability that a woman of English–Indian parentage will have a child after age 35 is the same as for a European woman.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[4 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.131
Summary:
Questions EB's use of terms 'ponderable' and 'imponderable' matter in EB's almanac.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 112
Summary:
Sends specimen of Californian fish that inhabits mountain lakes. The lakes often dry up and the fish have developed legs to enable them to wander in search of water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 December 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 185-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
6 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7)
Summary:
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0451; Reel 1093
Summary:
Found article with good description of Bank act. PR's ideas regarding issuance of currency notes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.384
Summary:
Is sending a copy of HA's Harveian Oration for JH's perusal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[7 December 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.15 (C: RS:HS 24.132)
Summary:
Describes exactly the route JH took to get to the point where he made his drawings of the earth pyramids at Botzen.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[7 December 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207120 (C: RS:HS 24.133)
Summary:
Describes JH's search for a publisher of JH's Iliad translation. Sending a sample to [Matthew] Arnold. Hopes WW is better; feels very old.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Acland d. 81, fols. 63–4)
Summary:
Acknowledges HWA’s oration.
Discusses design in nature, Asa Gray’s views, and his own confusion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Patrick Francis Robertson
Date:
[8 December 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0339.3; Reel 1054
Summary:
Insists that artificial representations of capital-currency, checks, bills, titles, etc.-are not capital. Examines arguments on both sides of issue.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 4)
Summary:
Has forwarded FM’s MS to Max Schultze, but did not read it.
Movement of stem apex in Linum.
Haeckel’s paper on reproduction in certain Medusae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wilhelm H. I. Bleek
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.76
Summary:
Forwarding a chapter of his comparative grammar of the South African language for JH's comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project