From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
14th, Oct, 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/11/1333, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
14 October 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Rogers
Date:
14 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Rogers family (private collection)
Summary:
Would like to quote JR on the trigger mechanism of Catasetum in Orchids
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 October 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published version of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 98. Also published in Moyal (1976) pp. 179-80
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 119
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Wind as agent of self-fertilisation in orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 [Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 79
Summary:
Discusses business matters relating to WED and the bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Main
Date:
[17 October 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.342
Summary:
Thanks for the receipt of the Radcliffe catalogue of stars, but wishes observations had been equatorial rather than circumpolar.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 120
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.
Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193)
Summary:
Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.
Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
c.18 October 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/410, f.392
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
James Clerk Maxwell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 October 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Saturday Morning 7.A.M.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/2218, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Fitzroy
Date:
19 October 1861
Source of text:
TNA BJ7 / 34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
A[lphonse] D'Orsan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 October 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.499
Summary:
Sending a copy of his work 'Our satellite,' and would be grateful for any comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.268)
Summary:
Continued discussion of Jamieson’s Glen Roy theory. Mentions river erosion of glaciers. Quotes from old letter to CL [1116].
Is working hard on orchids; fears subject is too complex for the public.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editor of the Times
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/6/5/1; (22 October 1861), p. 10, RI; The Times
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
22 (1861), pp. 377-8, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 112–113)
Summary:
G. B. Sowerby, Jr has done the drawings for Orchids woodcuts. Calls JM’s attention to the fact that a first-rate cutter must be employed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 October 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.278
Summary:
Is obliged for JH's letter acknowledging the receipt of the Radcliffe Catalogue; regrets the delay and will inquire into the cause. Has purchased R. C. Carrington's transit circle for the Radcliffe and would welcome JH's advice as to its employment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 22 Oct 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76
Summary:
Asks H. W. Newman whether the queen humble-bee is fertilised on the ground or in the air, and whether the fertilisation often takes place as late as September. [Newman’s reply follows CD’s letter.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project