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Herschel11896

From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.258
Summary:

Sends the last sheet of the Memoir that will be necessary for JH to see. Sheets on the measuring bars are held in abeyance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11430

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Joseph Lowe
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.341
Summary:

Did not mean to say that meteors describe an exact circle round the sun. Comments on the phenomena of meteors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2588

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.488
Summary:

Thanks JH for his sympathy regarding WS's fall. Describes the meteors he saw from his window on December 4.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Everest Boole
Date:
14 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 143: 121
Summary:

Is unable to answer her questions about religious implications of natural selection, but would prefer to believe that suffering in world is due to natural events.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14100

From:
George William Kitchin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0319; Reel 1087
Summary:

Grateful that JH is considering [writing treatise on inductive logic]. Each book in series is independent of other authors. Conveyed JH's request to Bartholomew Price.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5305

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 121–6
Summary:

Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.

On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.

Bentham and Martin disagreement.

Speculations on New Zealand flora.

Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].

On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2589

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[14 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.181
Summary:

Congratulates WS on his recovery. Thanks him for the meteor observations. The evidence points to an 11 rather than a 10 year period [in sunspots?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
14 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (DC. 2. 96/5 folio 1)
Summary:

Thinks of adding chapter on man to Variation. Asks about muscles connected to os coccyx in man and existence of other rudimentary organs in man.

Sends copy of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10921

From:
Clement M. Ingleby
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.267
Summary:

Was interested to read in JH's Familiar Lectures the chapter on sensorial vision; has been subject himself to the phenomenon described by JH. Queries one of the statements and would like verification from JH on this point.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-66-12-15a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Manners-Sutton
Date:
15 December 1866
Source of text:
Unit 21, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria.For a copy of this letter see: National Archives, London, CO309/80, original correspondence, Victoria, despatches, 1866, September to December, enclosure no. 2 to despatch no. 41, p. 339
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5309

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 78
Summary:

Thanks for information. Sclater was source of statement about Numida ptiloryncha [as origin of guinea-fowl] in The poultry book [pt 12 (Dec 1866): 288].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1396

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 December 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/207
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5309F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
16 Dec [1866?]
Source of text:
North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Acknowledges a subscription to the Down [Coal and Clothing] Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5310

From:
Mary Everest Boole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 250
Summary:

Thanks CD for reassurance that moral and religious faith are valid independently of his theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11399

From:
Elias Loomis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.310
Summary:

Is indebted to JH for a number of scientific memoirs, including the General Catalogue of Nebulae and the tract on Physical Geography, both of which he highly esteems. Sends via the Smithsonian his own pamphlet on the Aurora Borealis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

WCP2078

From:
Georg Semper
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 December 1866
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 22-23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5310F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017)
Summary:

Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.

Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
18 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7766

From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1866]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 15/5.3; Reel 11
Summary:

Gratitude for JH's gift to R.A.S. of William Herschel's manuscript series on observations of double stars. Encloses two pages of proofs for JH's approval.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for calling his attention to ancestry of guinea-fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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