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DCP-LETT-3345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton collection) (tipped into a copy of Bates 1892)
Summary:

Praises MS of first chapter of HWB’s book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)]. Suggests he give common names and make comparisons to familiar English species to help readers. Suggests a few changes. Will speak strongly to Murray about publishing whenever HWB is ready.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Delighted to have Quiz [Johnny Innes’ dog].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
15 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 198)
Summary:

Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.

Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4115

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
16 December 1861
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG/4/1/57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP1683

From:
Samuel Stevens
To:
Cajetan von? Felder?
Date:
16 December 1861
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM 422988-1007
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel11100

From:
Thomas F. Jamieson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.435
Summary:

Thanks for his note and explanations. Comments on the variation in the height of the Caspian Sea at various periods.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3346

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 137
Summary:

Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.

CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.

Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1840

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 18/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/642-3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1841

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19 Dec 61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
19 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Arrangements for receiving Quiz.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1842

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
21st Dec. 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/T1397, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel2025

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Bartholomew Price
Date:
[21 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.358
Summary:

Thanks for sending vol. 4 of BP's Infinitesimal Calculus and for earlier sending vols. 1 and 2. Praises parts of vol. 4. Will another volume be forthcoming?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11806

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.166
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's expression of sympathy over the death of his wife. One of his daughters has left on a ship for England. Sends a work by S. Salomon describing the visit of Prince Alfred to the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11930

From:
Reginald Dyke Marshall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.292
Summary:

Has not been able to obtain a return of the rainfall for Bassenthwaite or Seathwaite, but sends one for Keswick, which may be of interest. Was at Keswick on 25 Nov. and has never seen heavier rain than fell on that day. Children are well. Sad loss to the Queen and nation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3348

From:
Benjamin O’Neile Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 118
Summary:

Variation in instincts among domestic animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6497

From:
Matthew Collins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23] December [1861
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.263
Summary:

Hopes the almanac he sent him has arrived safely. Intends it for the use of country schoolteachers. Has found a new and easy proof for one of W. R. Hamilton's theorems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-61-12-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 December 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Colonial Floras, Kewensia, K9/655.59, ff. 59-63
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-12-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
24 December 1861
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 203, nos 521 & 528, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1843

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
24 Dec. 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/226, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3349

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for sending Quiz.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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