Text Online
From:
William Harvey
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
May 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Archives, Letters to J. D. Hooker (Har.) vol. 11, f. 167
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 7 (EH 88205991)
Summary:
Thanks W. H. Fitch for drawing for the Primula paper. Death of experimental plants delays publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 43
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Collins Simon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1861]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:
Asks for advice on matters in which JH is 'the highest authority in this or any other country.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Davidson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 1–2
Summary:
Sends three tables on the known geological distribution of genera and subgenera of Brachiopoda. Has been continually puzzled by intermediate forms, and is convinced that the greater number of species can be linked together. "Natura non facit saltum."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
3 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.247)
Summary:
Has received the shipment of skeletons of fowls. Asks TCE species name of Gungla cock. Mentions other specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
3 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 127
Summary:
Asks how many wild Chillingham cattle are killed each year. Interested in rate of increase.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 May [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 103)
Summary:
Regrets the error in the bill and receipt. CD is surprised at so large a reduction in profit in the last edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Barton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.300
Summary:
Regarding the Pyx accounts. Has seen JH's son. What does he think of the new coins.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Field
Date:
[before 4 May 1861]
Source of text:
The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 383
Summary:
Information is sought from correspondents regarding the mental powers of Polish and other tufted fowls. CD finds it hard to believe that the protuberance of the front part of the skull, which is accompanied by a change in the shape of the brain, would not produce a change in mental powers. References to Bechstein, Pallas, and Tegetmeier regarding the stupid behaviour of these birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.246)
Summary:
CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 256
Summary:
Sends some replies to CD’s queries and data on pigeon flights between Bordeaux and Verviers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
6 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.248)
Summary:
Discusses results of his examination of fowls’ skeletons. Wants to quote TCE on variation in skeletons of allied species. Asks about skulls of birds with topknots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
William Hooker
Date:
6 May 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Bentham Biographia, f. [16]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[6 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.330
Summary:
On the effect of the earth passing through a comet's tail.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7th May 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/221; MS JTR/1/TYP/4/1365-9, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1861
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41913 pp. 107–8)
Summary:
Encloses amended note of £372 for third edition of Origin. Provides details of the calculation of profits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 May [1861-8]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 122
Summary:
CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Guillaume de Gruyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.149
Summary:
Has had no reply to his letter of 29 March requesting his opinion on a memoir on the solar system. Would be grateful for a reply.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hardy
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
[8 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 92
Summary:
Sends data on numbers of "wild" cattle in the herd on the estate of Lord Tankerville that have been killed by fighting, accidents, etc. He does not perceive that the cattle have diminished in size.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
