From:
John Tyndall
To:
Richard Dawes
Date:
24th July 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/322b, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.388 (C: RI 507)
Summary:
Apologizes for not having seen JH's paper on spectra of colored flames and thus having overlooked JH's prior claims [see JH's 1861-7-21]. Will try to make amends.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
[24 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.336
Summary:
More on lacunae in JH's set of MF's writings [see JH's 1838-10-3].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
24 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 4 (EH 88205942)
Summary:
Has been idling and enjoying the scenery.
"At dinner we were all sticking bits of ice together by their points, marvelling at the phenomenon and talking of you."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 38
Summary:
Distribution of varieties and subspecies.
George Maw’s review of the Origin [Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 162
Summary:
Gives CD an instance of facts that can be read either way as to whether a plant (Veronica humifusa) is a species or a variety.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.253
Summary:
Sends list of works received on an official form. Followed by letter. Suffers deeply from death of his wife, daughter, and her son. Had hoped to see JH in London, but JH was absent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
René Lenormand
Date:
25 July 1861
Source of text:
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Phanerogamie, Paris
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 July 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 134
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William White Cooper
Date:
25th July 1861
Source of text:
Uncatologued, box 864., RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.184
Summary:
About repayment of a loan made from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Hugh Jamieson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 July 1861
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2078/1, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
26th July 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/181, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 45 (EH 88206489)
Summary:
Thanks JL for assistance with William Darwin’s banking partnership; considers everything is now settled.
Is enjoying himself and doing a little work on orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.159
Summary:
Is on the point of departure for Malta and would welcome letters of introduction from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 107
Summary:
On orchids supplied by Kew; homologies of pollen and rostellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Barnard
Date:
27 July 1861
Source of text:
private possession
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
27 July 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/118
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 July – 10 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 109
Summary:
Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.
Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Jane Barnard
To:
Rachel Barnard
Date:
28 July 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/5/5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project