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DCP-LETT-3053

From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1861
Source of text:
DAR 46.2 (ser. 3): 54–5
Summary:

Identifies two dipterous species of parasites [chalcidites].

Was not able to attend to the aphids last year, but will make use of CD’s suggestions and "study as much as I can the inquiry as to species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11434

From:
Edward Loyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.346
Summary:

Is sorry to hear that JH has been so unwell. The Rifle Association is to compete for prizes. Is JH in favor of the Association?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238)
Summary:

Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.

Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3948

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edwin Atherstone
Date:
2 February 1861
Source of text:
SoRO MS DD/SAS G/3016
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3947

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Leighton
Date:
2 February 1861
Source of text:
RI MS F1 E25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12296

From:
N. Newbon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.152
Summary:

Thanks for letter. Mrs. Moorsam was interred at Norwood Cemetery last Wednesday. NN's health is bad so son represented her. Bequests to Isabella and Caroline Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9347

From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.101
Summary:

On the orbits of short period comets, and the shortening of such orbits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is obliged for WBT’s "curious case". Discusses the effects of castration on development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12)
Summary:

Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.

Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.

Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?

Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3057

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 87
Summary:

Changes in admission to Athenaeum.

Slowly working at his volume on Variation.

Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11480

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.393
Summary:

The Governors find that many of the senior members favor Mr. Stute for the appointment, so in the circumstances thinks it best that JH's son should not appear as a candidate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3058

From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 156
Summary:

Discusses the colouring of the young of various breeds of rabbit.

Observations on results of various poultry crosses and on a character which is linked to sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3038

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451)
Summary:

Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4303

From:
Norton Shaw
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1861]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Informs JH that a printer will make multiple copies of a paper for him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12058

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.424
Summary:

Regarding the geology of the Highlands. Will send him his own memoir. Will try at the next Council to obtain what JH wants.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1766

From:
David Brewster
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feby. 7th 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/130; MS JT/1/TYP/1/161, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3949

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Louisa Barnard
Date:
7 February 1861
Source of text:
Dennis Embleton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 86
Summary:

Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3950

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 February 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3061

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 9 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 9 February 1861, p. 122
Summary:

Discusses the possible explanation of why fly-orchid plants in a correspondent’s garden had no pollen-masses removed while Orchis maculata had all of its pollen-masses removed. CD points out that different orchids are fertilised by different insects. The insects needed to fertilise the fly-orchid may not have inhabited the site of the correspondent’s garden.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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