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Herschel8699

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Socker[?]
Date:
[13 April 1867]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth [ed. by F. A. Edgeworth, 1867]. Praises Edgeworth. Whom should JH thank for this gift?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0689

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[14 April 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 50
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel2433

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.286
Summary:

Glad to have met JH's son [John]. Describes benefits of [R.S.L.] meetings for cultivation of science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5503

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 59
Summary:

Asks CD to decide which translator he would prefer for Variation. JVC frankly thinks Carl Vogt not the best man to introduce CD to the German public, though he has a greater name than JVC.

Vogt now preaches materialism in its most absurd form.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0691

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[c. 15 April 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-5442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97)
Summary:

Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.

Is "plodding on" correcting Variation

and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.

Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.

Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Apr 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 21–2
Summary:

Agrees with JDH about Anderson-Henry. He has however described in detail a curious case of the ovaria of Rhododendron directly affected by foreign pollen, like the Chamaerops and date-palm case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1774

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
15 April 1867
Source of text:
University of Bristol, Special Collections: DM741
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2084

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 April 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5504

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 348
Summary:

On cost of electrotypes from woodcuts for Variation and price to charge Schweizerbart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5505

From:
Carl Vogt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 180: 11
Summary:

Will send CD a memoir on Les microcéphales [1867]; CV believes microcephalism is an atavistic abnormality.

Recommends H. von Nathusius’ work on domestic pig [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
18 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 58–59)
Summary:

Reassures JVC [who had received the impression that CD would prefer Carl Vogt as translator of Variation].

CD surprised at receipt of an application for a Russian translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8416

From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.301
Summary:

Had written previously to JH to obtain more information about JH's father, William. Is now asking JH for a response to the same requests.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-67-04-19

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 April 1867
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M67-04-19

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
19 April 1867
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 98, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel7201

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.392
Summary:

Sends a theorem, which beats Blaise Pascal's by points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0692

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[c. 20 April 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel6401

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
20 April [1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.166
Summary:

Has only just received his letter. Feared for the safety of her parcel. Wishes he would write a poem on photography. John Taylor and the Camerons think that JH's poetry is beautiful. Writes in haste to catch the post.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5507

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends the revisions in the latest edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-67-04-21b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 April 1867
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 264
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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