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Herschel7133

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.346
Summary:

Has not heard from him for a long time. Did he receive his red and black logarithms? JH's son Alexander has sent him a mathematical problem. George Bishop has died and the observatory and instruments are to be sold. Sends two riddles. Sees that JH has proved that the sun is liquid fire.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1795

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Lord President and Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education1
Date:
Thursday, 11th July 1861
Source of text:
(1868-9), p. 90., House of Commons Papers
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3390

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Marc Seguin
Date:
[1861-7 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.185
Summary:

Thanks for MS's works, communicated through [Picot] Tremblay. Worries that JH has insufficient time and lags behind in the physical sciences. Comments on ideas put forward in 1824 by JH and discussed by MS. Has found MS's name connected with suspension bridge over Rhone River.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3198F

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
John Hutton Balfour
Date:
1 July 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Summary:

Asks whether one of Balfour’s students could obtain specimens of Corallorhiza from Ravelrig bog outside Edinburgh for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4024

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 July 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/409, f.188A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gordon
Date:
4 July [1861]
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.11)
Summary:

Thanks GG for his great kindness about Corallorhiza. CD will try to get plants from J. H. Balfour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Dickie
Date:
[5 July 1861]
Source of text:
Liverpool Central Library
Summary:

Thanks for Listera specimen, which arrived withered from being sent in a wooden box.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4025

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
5 July 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/409, f.189
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4026

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Herbert
Date:
5 July 1861
Source of text:
FACLM H MS c1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gordon
Date:
6 July [1861]
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.12)
Summary:

Apologises for trespassing on GG’s kindness again. Believes there is a new point of structure in Listera cordata and asks GG to send specimens if it is still in flower.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 104
Summary:

Trip to Torquay.

Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8933

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
London Review, 3 (July 13, 1861), 46-7
Summary:

Reports JH's observations of a comet [Comet II Tebbutt ?] first seen from England ca. 29 June 1861. Remarks that it 'far exceeded in brightness any comet I have before observed.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4027

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 July 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3203

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
7 July [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks for more flowers of Epipactis palustris. Asks AGM to experiment on Epipactis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1115

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
7 July 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.22-24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3202

From:
Tiberius Cornelius Winkler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1861
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6084)
Summary:

Sends his article ["Quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons fossiles", Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem 2d ser. 14 (1861)]

and Dutch translation of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 July [1861]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 131)
Summary:

Family news.

Henslow’s death a sad loss. Leonard Jenyns will write a biography.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3204A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 9 July 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 280–1
Summary:

CD thanks correspondents for information relating to the fertilisation of Pelargonium and of wheat. Suggests further observations and experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13823

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
9 July [1861?]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:

Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6469

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.237
Summary:

Encloses sketch of the comet seen on night of 30 June. Comments on various aspects of the comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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