From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov 22/61.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/96; MS JT/1/TYP/2/512-513; HS 23.348, RI; RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[22 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.348 (C: RI 512-13)
Summary:
Does not believe surface of moon can radiate cold; perhaps new moon can. Explains this geometrically.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[22 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.349
Summary:
Has no suggestions to improve photographs. Wants to determine whether the degradation of light from center to edge of sun is 'real.' Does not think sun's size affects focus.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hugh Gower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 165: 81
Summary:
Sends notes on fertilisation of Victoria regia tending to show that impregnation with foreign pollen increases productivity of seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
23rd Nov. 1861
Source of text:
HS 17.390, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.390a (C: 514)
Summary:
Clarifies that JT does not believe moon radiates cold itself, but effects are 'as if' it did. Relates this to atmosphere.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688
Summary:
Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 24/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/97, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[24 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.350 (C: RI 515)
Summary:
Finds JT's work on thermotics 'highly interesting,' although criticizes measurements of 'tenuity' of vapor, and explanation of scattering of sunlight and formation of corona around moon during eclipse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 November 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 134
Summary:
Refers to Bates' admiration of ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Areschoug
Date:
25 November 1861
Source of text:
J. E. Areschoug brefsamling, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 134
Summary:
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M)
Summary:
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Leonard; Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[26 November – 3 December 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 91
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689)
Summary:
Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1861
Source of text:
DAR 111: 73–4
Summary:
Remarks about Labiatae, Linum, Oxalis and Viola occasioned by hearing CD’s paper ["Two forms of Primula", read 21 Nov 1861, Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
26 November 1861
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
26 November 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific Letters 1859-65, letter no. 139
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.163
Summary:
About WL's activity in setting up his observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 November 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 92
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters