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DCP-LETT-5026

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
4 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 92: A38–9
Summary:

Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1437

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[4 March 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H711 (draft RS:HS 17.64 & C: RS:HS 24.145)
Summary:

Comments further on Ernst Klinkerfüss's work [see JH's 1866-2-28]; on the behavior of light emitted by an electric spark.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2574

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.480
Summary:

William Whewell's nieces have little hope for his recovery. Whewell is anxious about his article on Grote's Plato for MacMillan's Magazine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-66-03-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Purves
Date:
5 March 1866
Source of text:
MS 12521 Victorian Horticultural Society, box 3401, pp. 278-9, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel9800

From:
James Glaisher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.135
Summary:

Editor of the Leisure Hour would like an article on the Correlation of the Physical forces. Would JH be prepared to write such an article?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5027

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1866
Source of text:
ML 2: 158
Summary:

Surprised at Hooker’s introducing "so organic a change as a deviation in the axis of the planet" to explain the cold of the Glacial Period.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2576

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[5 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.146
Summary:

Thinks William Whewell's excitement may be a 'precursor to exhaustion.' The hope of recovery is very slight. JH is interested in Whewell's article on Plato.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2575

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.481
Summary:

William Whewell is still alive, but struggling. Dr. [Gilbert] French has died suddenly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2577

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5?] March [1866
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.516
Summary:

Detached postscript that refers to the behavior of William Whewell before his death.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-1517

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
6 March 1866
Source of text:
DAR 258: 834
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel7784

From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.1
Summary:

Bemoans lack of complete collection in English of William Herschel's works. Questions quality of J. W. A. Pfaff's 1826 German work on WH, whose English nomenclature for stellar astronomy is not yet adopted in other languages. Suggests English government or R.A.S. underwrite cost of publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1709

From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.196
Summary:

Thanks JH for recommendation [see GS's 1866-3-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2022

From:
John Eustace Prescott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.54
Summary:

The Master of Trinity [William Whewell] died this afternoon. Regrets that his first letter from Cambridge brings such news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5027A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 80–2
Summary:

Thanks CD for German translation of Origin.

Droughts over the summers have brought about changes in the numbers of plants and animals in the area. The small quantity of Orchestia darwinii that has survived the changes no longer includes two previously common male forms. Great changes also take place without such unusual physical conditions. The disappearance of a briefly abundant bryozoan in local caves has made way not for the return of original bryozoan inhabitants but for a completely new fauna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2578

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.482
Summary:

Relays message from Dr. [George] Humphry. William Whewell is conscious but knows he is dying.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2579

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.483
Summary:

William Whewell died peacefully that afternoon. The place of burial has not been determined. WS will speak about him on Friday. Takes comfort in his writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0582

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
7 March [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel9760

From:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 March [1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.107
Summary:

Announcing the death of William Whewell and plans for his funeral. Hopes JH will not come in his present state of health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10357

From:
Robert Harley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.239
Summary:

Is writing an article on the life and work of George Boole and would like JH's advice on one of D. F. Gregory's references.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2581

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[7 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.147
Summary:

Thanks WS for communicating the events of William Whewell's last days.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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