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Herschel11565

From:
James Liddell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.483
Summary:

Sending his observations on the effect of the moon on the earth's atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1466

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
5 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.268-269, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4968

From:
Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 and 7? Jan 1866]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202)
Summary:

CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4970

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
6 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311)
Summary:

Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.

Notes improvement in health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4016

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
6 January 1866
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6600

From:
Louis Marie Joseph, Comte de Chevigny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.337
Summary:

Has received his letter and the sheets of the translations. Comments on this and outlines further plans for translating.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8795

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[8 January 1866]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:

Expresses concern that the present rate of use of natural resources and the increase in population may create serious problems in the future.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6307

From:
Samuel Birch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.68
Summary:

Regarding the structure and surface of the moon as revealed by stereoscopic photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4973

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 41
Summary:

Comments on CD’s health.

Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.

Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.

His lectures on CD’s theory.

Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6665

From:
Henry Coxwell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.368
Summary:

Has been reading JH's letter of 1862 concerning aerial flight and would welcome any hints or suggestions from JH on this subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5)
Summary:

Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.

Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.

CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1602

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
11 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.115-116, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4974

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 181: 191
Summary:

Has made observations on bees’ cells. Their dimensions are not constant, nor do single bees make single cells; each one is a result of co-operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

Faraday4572

From:
James South
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 January 1866
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday4573

From:
James South
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 January 1866
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel13526

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[T. P. Anderson]
Date:
[12 January 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0757.2; Reel 1089
Summary:

Has no knowledge of transactions affecting trust fund for W. H. B. Hollier, other than what JH noted in previous letters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

Faraday4574

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James South
Date:
mid January 1866
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 478-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3302

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Matthew Arnold?]
Date:
[13 January 1866]
Source of text:
EUL:Gen1731/22
Summary:

Thanks for remarks on early portions of JH's Iliad translation. Hopes MA can go over 2800 particularly 'shaky' lines.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6632

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[13 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.137
Summary:

Has sent his translation of Homer's Iliad to the publisher and is having a collection of the best portions sent to EC.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6308

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Samuel Birch
Date:
[13 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.69 & 24.136
Summary:

Is not convinced by his arguments that the moon's surface consists of snow and glaciers. Quotes examples relating to his experiences at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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