From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 205
Summary:
Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 74
Summary:
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 197
Summary:
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.381.446
Summary:
Comments on the state of William Whewell's health, and about the theories of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss [see JH's 1866-2-27].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.290
Summary:
Has sent the 1854 Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations. Illness of the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (William Whewell). Undulating theory of stars in motion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Helen E. A. Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.150
Summary:
Expressing the thanks of her mother for signing the memorial.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 March 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 91: 89–90
Summary:
Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
1866-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.149
Summary:
Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.477
Summary:
William Whewell slightly improved. Dr. [George] Humphry has been elected professor of Anatomy. Is indebted to JH because of the paper he sent to the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project