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DCP-LETT-3611

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 38–9
Summary:

Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.

Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3616

From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 174
Summary:

Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3614

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5
Summary:

Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1407

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.47
Summary:

Requests that JH return a paper sent to him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3615

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 [June 1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 124)
Summary:

It is not certain cuts are wanted by an American publisher [of Orchids].

Has fixed price of £10 for Schweizerbart [Stuttgart publisher].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.279)
Summary:

Testimonial in support of WBT’s application for curatorship of the Hartley Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
20 June [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.280)
Summary:

Asks for information concerning heterostyled and dioecious plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3584

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 52
Summary:

Sad that CD is quitting his studies of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3619

From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318
Summary:

L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.

Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3617

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.553:440 (241))
Summary:

His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3618

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 54
Summary:

Yesterday found hundreds of [Ophrys] apifera and [Ophrys] arachnites in bloom in the same area. The two species grow in clumps and do not mix with each other.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3488

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[21 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.117
Summary:

Reports on and deems fit for publication [William] Hopkins's paper [R.S.P.T., 153, 677-] on theory of motion of glaciers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-62-06-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
22 June 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 58(a)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3620

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 156
Summary:

Has been ill (violent skin inflammation).

Has done hardly anything except tend to his experiments. Repeating Primula work has verified former results and very curious facts on sterility of homomorphic seedlings.

Wonders who reviewed Orchids for London Review & Wkly J. Polit..

Asa Gray also infatuated with Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4193

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carl Wilhelm Siemens
Date:
23 June 1862
Source of text:
GEC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4194

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Conrad William Cooke
Date:
23 June 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4195

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Margaret Faraday
Date:
23 June 1862
Source of text:
Dennis Embleton
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4196

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
23 June 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/A2, pp.25-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3620F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pamplin
Date:
23 June [1862]
Source of text:
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, Special Collections (laid into a copy of Origin , QH365 .O2 1859 (Copy 2))
Summary:

Orders paper suitable for drying plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8755

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[23 June 1862]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.8
Summary:

Thanks WP for WP's paper on nebulae and on WP's giant reflecting telescope. Comments on and/or raises questions about various nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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