From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.284
Summary:
Discusses current debate over placement of telescope in India. Discusses various possibilities for telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George William Kitchin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0318; Reel 1087
Summary:
Clarendon Press plans to publish series on logic. Invites JH to write treatise on inductive logic. Expect letters on this from John Phillips and Bartholomew Price.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Williams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.410
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt by R.A.S. of papers relating to William Herschel's observations of double stars.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Behrens
Date:
7 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Michael Silverman (dealer) (Catalogue 13, 1994)
Summary:
Sends his autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.25; Reel 1093
Summary:
Requests JH's views on inductive logic for a publication by Cambridge.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
7 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (5)
Summary:
Asks to have author’s spare copies of F. Müller’s article on climbing plants [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344] sent to him for forwarding to FM.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 234
Summary:
Sending annual Down charities cheque.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[8 December 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS554 (ACCS: TxU:H/L-0378; Reel 1054
Summary:
In response to ES's 1866-12-6, JH sees no benefit in a great equatorial telescope in India being an itinerant instrument.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George William Kitchin
Date:
[9 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0213; Reel 1054
Summary:
Needs time to consider GK's request. What connection is expected between [Clarendon] Press and each author, or among all authors in GK's proposed series?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
[before 10 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10)
Summary:
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 308, 308b
Summary:
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[10 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.180
Summary:
On the 'Great Phenomenon' of 13 and 14 Nov. [meteor shower]; JH appears to believe that there is an annular ring of very minute planets circling the sun.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 77
Summary:
WBT interested in ancestors of domestic guinea-fowl, ducks, and geese.
Egg colours in fowls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.340
Summary:
Sends some queries regarding meteor showers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 118–19
Summary:
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
12 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Gives his opinion on the ancestry of domestic ducks, geese, and guinea-fowl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [Dec] 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 207
Summary:
Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.
Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Everest Boole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 249
Summary:
Asks whether CD believes natural selection obviates man’s ability to be guided by spiritual motives. Is anxious that his theory be compatible with her faith.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eleanor Johnson; Eleanor Corbet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 225
Summary:
Mr Corbet too ill to write. Thanks for CD’s letter [see 5290].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project