From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
20 May 1861
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £239 9s. 7d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Clerk Maxwell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
21 May 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 May 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 94. Also published, with elisions, in Moyal (1976) pp. 177-8
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
22nd May 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/223; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1372, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 May [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 164)
Summary:
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.
Family plans for Torquay in summer.
J. S. Henslow’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 May 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/90.45
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1861]- 5-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.17
Summary:
Is grateful for the present of JH's Physical Geography. Is pleased also with JH's note on his own book on species. Comments on some of the theories expressed in this work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
23 May [1861]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS 6:17)
Summary:
Thanks JFWH for his "Physical geography" [from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)]
and for what he says about Origin, though JFWH goes but a little way with CD. Gives reasons why he cannot accept "Design" in nature, though he is in a "complete jumble" on the point. Is confident of his views because they have aided good workers in several fields to "group and understand many scattered facts".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.67
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Clerk Maxwell
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
ULC Add MS 7655/II/20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/90.46
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.17-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 101
Summary:
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 May 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 95-6. Also published, with elisions, in Moyal (1976) pp. 178-9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
24 May [1861]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks BJS for account of Mendoza earthquake.
FitzRoy sent CD the last London Review [& Weekly J. Polit.] and he read the article on Genesis, but feels it is an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Field
Date:
[before 25 May 1861]
Source of text:
The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 451
Summary:
Is obliged to Mr Bennett for information, the same relayed through Consul General Mr Crowe.
CD is interested in information that provides insight into the colour of the aboriginal horse and the possibility that the offspring of a cross between differently-coloured breeds revert to the colour of the aboriginal parent. He has examined crosses between pigeons for this purpose and would welcome any analogous facts resulting from crossing of distinct breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 64
Summary:
Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Friedrich Miquel
Date:
25 May 1861
Source of text:
Bibliothek, Vakgroep Botanische Oecologie en Evolutiebiologie, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
James Drew
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 May 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/120
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.367
Summary:
Has been studying the star discovered by Anthelm [Voituret Anthelme] in 1670. The star he discovered in Ophiuchus has not disappeared as stated by some astronomers. Bishop is seriously ill.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project