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Herschel9817

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.152
Summary:

Cannot lay his hands on JH's paper at the moment. Family is going on well. Will send details of the secret code of Army signals.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3107F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernard Peirce Brent
Date:
1 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Richard Brent (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for informatiion about birds and for copies of the Cottage Gardener (26 March 1861). Discusses ancestor of domestic fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 162)
Summary:

Does not think much of the arguments of the Duke [of Argyll], though liberal and complimentary to himself.

THH’s Athenæum letter ["Man and the apes", 30 Mar 1861, p. 433] almost too civil. What a thorn THH must be to Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3974

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
1 April 1861
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.243)
Summary:

CD never dreamed primroses did not abound with DO; apologises for trouble and sends flowers.

Will repay DO for cost of Cypripedium and for the Dionaea, if any can be got.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-04-02

From:
John Russell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 April 1861
Source of text:
MS 10917, Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, vol. 287, f. 903, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3108

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
2 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Details of peculiarities in poultry.

Is examining wild varieties of rabbit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3976

From:
Friedrich Max Müller
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 April 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6321

From:
George Boole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.83
Summary:

Thanks for JH's paper 'On a New Projection of the Sphere.' Wonders why no one has discussed this important problem before.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3975

From:
Margaret Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 April 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-61-04-04

From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 April 1861
Source of text:
No. 145, unit 2, p. 68, VPRS 4366 outward letter books of registered correspondence, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
4 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD urges HWB to write on his travels;

asks for facts on domestic variations;

is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.

He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.

Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 95
Summary:

Affectionate regards to Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1776

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Arthur-Auguste de la Rive
Date:
4th April 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1498; MS JT/1/TYP/1/362, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 29 (EH 88206012)
Summary:

Primula sibirica seems to be the only non-dimorphic species. Has made over one hundred Primula crosses.

Regrets Henslow’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
5 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.704A)
Summary:

Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3074

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 69
Summary:

A bee’s sting always remains behind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3113A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Birch
Date:
6 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, Correspondence 1826–67: 1493
Summary:

Requests information about Japanese and Chinese encyclopedias,

about the rarity of fowls with black feathers,

and about date of the king Thouthmosis III.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3113

From:
John David Glennie, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1861
Source of text:
DAR 48: 70–3
Summary:

The stinging of bees and wasps contrasted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8119

From:
Thomas Watson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.385
Summary:

Sends photographic copy of mural tablet TW placed in chapel of St. John's College to honor TW's late uncle, Thomas Catton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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