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DCP-LETT-5225

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Oct 1866
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 707)
Summary:

Invites GB and wife to luncheon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1158

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[October 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 276
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Faraday4591

From:
Jane Barnard
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
October 1866
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/3/17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-13863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[1 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265)
Summary:

"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4728

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 8
Summary:

Herbert Spencer is staying with the Lubbocks and would much like to see CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5226

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 and 3 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 142: 99; DAR 157a: 103
Summary:

Discusses dimorphism of Oxalis; one form has 99% sterile anthers. Has found three kinds of fertile anthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5389

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1866-10]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.336
Summary:

Is returning the trust deed duly signed. A list of his papers was printed in an American periodical. Hopes his yachting improved his health. He is suffering from bronchitis. Trouble with the Irish.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11631

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[1 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.168
Summary:

Comments on the relationship between the plane of the earth's orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE323

From:
Agnes Greig
To:
John Herschel
Date:
2 Oct 1866
Source of text:
HS 9.127, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10240

From:
Agnes Greig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.127
Summary:

Has taken Mary Somerville's manuscript [On Molecular and Microscopic Science] to John Murray. Would like JH's opinion on the scientific value of her manuscript, and if he could assist her in seeing it through the press.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5227F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
2 Oct 1866
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Declines contributing to Land and Water. Asks if Frank Buckland can insert a question about the feet of otter hounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5545

From:
Charles T. Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.35
Summary:

Thanks JH for promptly signing memorial [see CB's 1866-9-28].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 301
Summary:

Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].

Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].

T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.

Interview with Herbert Spencer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3622

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.163
Summary:

Wonders if mathematical result recently presented by [J. A.] Serret was published many years ago by JH. Comments on recurrence of identical problems in mathematical study.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5240A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Land and Water
Date:
[2 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Land and Water , 6 October 1866, p. 244
Summary:

Requests information about the feet of otter-hounds. Is the membrane between the toes more largely developed than in other hounds? To which part or joint of the toes does the skin extend? Is it hollowed out? [There is a hand-written copy of this letter in Invercargill City Libraries and Archives (Alex Robertson Collection, vol. 1: A0444 S12450001). The handwriting is not CD’s: it may be a copy made for the printer, or maybe by a reader of the magazine.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12151

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D[aniel] Mackintosh
Date:
[2 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.8 & 24.169
Summary:

Agrees that a large part of the hills and valleys are due to tidal action. Comments further on this, especially relating to parts of France. The Hawkhurst lectures have ceased and are not likely to be resumed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5231

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 159
Summary:

Is unable to fix a day for luncheon until later.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5229

From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 361
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s patronage;

will pursue CD’s query about otter-hounds.

Remarks on continuing debate over CD’s views in BAAS.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5230

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B44–5
Summary:

Would CD like to have Susan’s Indian chessmen?

EAD should settle something about the house but has no power without consent of all parties.

Caroline looks worn – it has been a most painful time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 302
Summary:

Susan Darwin is dead.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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