From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:
Orchid homologies.
Sensitive responses in Catasetum.
Acropera becoming clear.
T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.373
Summary:
Will send the Nautical Almanac to Smith, Elder and Co. Is pleased they agree on the naming of the asteroids. Gives readings for the approaching transit of Mercury.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195)
Summary:
CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.
Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 November 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, GEB1/9 George Bentham Papers, Correspondence, vol. 9, Sabine-Sykes
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 November 1861
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4112-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Saturday 2nd. Nov. 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4112-3; 6:4089, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[2 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.352
Summary:
About the naming of asteroids.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 225–6
Summary:
List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[3 November 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 85
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Tairraz
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 3 9bre 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/2, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035)
Summary:
Thanks for "multitudinous" references.
Thanks Hooker for orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 86
Summary:
Reports events at Down;
has been doing good work on the homologies of orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John James
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 November 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M200, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
Monday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/341; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2399, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 November 1861
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p.4153
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Nov. 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4153; 6:4090, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:
Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Todhunter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.352
Summary:
Thanks JH for compliments on his book [Theory of Equations]. Requests JH's signature for his application to the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dulau
Date:
5 November 1861
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project