From:
Henry Napier Bruce Erskine
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 163: 31–2
Summary:
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Forrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1867]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/3.7.2 verso; Reel 11
Summary:
[Form letter] Schedule of meetings for Institution of Civil Engineers. As honorary member, JH is invited to attend.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 36, 30
Summary:
Sends a letter he wrote in 1862 [see 3482].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
November? 1867
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 62-63
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 28-29]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 352
Summary:
Sends Dallas’ specimen of indexing [for Variation].
Asks CD’s opinion of likelihood of a hybrid of ass and bull, reported in a MS of a journey to Asia Minor he is reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.134
Summary:
Is grateful for his letter and will study the memoirs to which he refers. The Editor would also like a photograph; can JH oblige?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 71
Summary:
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
2 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 176–177)
Summary:
Dallas’ index [for Variation] well done but rather too full.
A hybrid from an ass and a bull is utterly incredible.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 19)
Summary:
Variation to be published at end of month.
Dimorphism and self-sterility.
Seed dissemination in Adenanthera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
Date:
[2 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.159 (C: RS:HS 24.209)
Summary:
JH is 'shaky & feeble.' Pleased with biography of ED's brother Thomas. JH's son John and bride departed today for India. Deaths of JH's contemporaries. Describes Constance Herschel's whooping cough.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 November 1867
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 286-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
3 Nov 1867
Source of text:
174, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 November 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.359.536
Summary:
Writes to inquire as to the exact definition of the gallon and the pound, and the circumstances under which the appropriate measures would be made.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[3 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.210
Summary:
Believes Michael Faraday's boro-silicate of lead has not been used for telescopes, but JH and others have tried using it for other optical purposes. Describes method for producing veinless flint glass.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 261
Summary:
Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
4 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 51)
Summary:
Sends corrected title of Variation and report of progress in printing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 2
Summary:
WSD is pleased that CD approves his index draft [for Variation]; notes his objection to long list of references under "Dogs" and will try to find a principle for shortening it. He has not indexed all authors’ names; is this practice satisfactory?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0643.1 (C: RGO 6.359.537)
Summary:
Provides JH with best definition that GA has available for the gallon [see JH's 1867-11-3], noting that methods for establishing standards are revised, even if the standards supposedly are not.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Whitehouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.402
Summary:
Plans for refracting telescope TW is constructing. Diagrams and questions about lens construction.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
East India Company
Date:
[5 November 1867]
Source of text:
APS 509.L56.20
Summary:
Feels that he has been quoted out of context, making it appear that JH favors the introduction of the metric system in India. This being not the case, JH then proceeds to show how the British system of measures is related to terrestrial measurements, especially the length of the earth's polar axis. In so doing, JH argues for the greater accuracy in the definition of the British units, as compared to the metric.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project