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DCP-LETT-13864F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1861–82]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1062

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Editor Macmillan's Magazine
Date:
January 1861
Source of text:
Victoria University of Wellington Library The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel7130

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1861
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.343
Summary:

Is pleased JH can look his trial in the face. Regarding logic. Has seen a neat construction by JH's son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2942

From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1861
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.316
Summary:

Talked to [L.-F.-C.?] Breguet for JH. Discusses work [on hygrometer?/metallic thermometer?] in detail, including diagrams. Regrets not having seen JH's daughters in Paris. Says he is recuperating from the 'catastrophe' and can still use his left eye.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3348

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Thomas Romney Robinson?]
Date:
[1861?]
Source of text:
RS MM 12.77
Summary:

Discusses the project of erecting a large telescope in the southern hemisphere [Melbourne telescope] for observation of nebulae. Expresses reservations and makes suggestions about the project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1156

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[1861 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.13
Summary:

Returns a paper of Mr. Stobart, which deals with astronomical knowledge of the early Egyptians.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1345

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.135, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1440

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.237, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1442

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.239, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1444

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.241, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP5526

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1? January 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC65 folio 359
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel2719

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.515
Summary:

Detached postscript discussing sunspots, comparing them to the low barometric pressure center in cyclones. J. S. Henslow is dying.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3040F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[1861]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134)
Summary:

Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13533

From:
Unidentified
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1861 to 1864]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0761; Reel 1089
Summary:

Letter of introduction for William Walker, who wants to show Walker's nearly finished engraving, Distinguished Men of Science Living 1807-8, to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3933

From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 January 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.155-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP373

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
[1 Sept. 1860 & 2 Jan. 1861]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/48 & NHM WP1/3/63
Summary:

Leon du Four's History of Prostitution and Darwin's Origin of Species. Two months spent in Ternate dealing with a year's mail, cleaning, arranging and packing collections of birds, insects and shells for shipment to England and preparing for further expeditions; paper on "The native trade with New Guinea" sent to the Geographical.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6)
Summary:

Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.

THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.

Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].

In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-01-03

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 January 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday3934

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
4 January 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3041A

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Summary:

Comments on the travels of JDH.

Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.

Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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