Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
13 December 1862
Source of text:
FACLM H MS c1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 176: 10
Summary:
Sends 3d ed. of catalogue of rocks [A descriptive catalogue of the rock specimens in the Museum of Practical Geology (1862)].
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on the parallel roads of Glen Roy to be read 20 January. Asks whether CD will be a referee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec [1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 12
Summary:
Describes a box which has come for CD.
Asks for John Price’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 83–4
Summary:
On Asa Gray’s letter; has written why he avoids alluding to the war.
Has read Max Müller [see 3752] – last part unphilosophical.
On CD’s pigeon example, long-beaked and short-beaked pigeons must be either sterile or not inter se. There is "no such thing as Equality – hence no such thing as chance and Nat. Sel. is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head if you make a slip in your premisses."
Has read note on Lythrum sent several weeks ago. Its consequences are of most prolific order to CD’s doctrine.
Kew has no wild gooseberries.
JDH praises the Saturday Review reply [14 (1862): 589] to the Duke of Argyll’s bitter review of Orchids ["The supernatural", Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
14 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 5 (EH 88205978)
Summary:
Thanks ACR for Catalogue; pleased some of his volcanic specimens have been included.
Will review T. F. Jamieson’s paper on Glen Roy. Knows the facts and knows too well that he [CD] is everlastingly smashed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
15 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks for paper and references on variations [missing].
Regrets HWB’s trouble about artists, etc., saying such trouble is a law of nature.
Asks whether HWB has heard of starving Indians who are forced to cook in different ways, and eat new things.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 34
Summary:
Thinks Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566], is very good; would appreciate an article on it from CD ["On mimetic butterflies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 219–24; Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Sarah Faraday
Date:
15 December 1862
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 455
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.40
Summary:
Invitation to JH to visit him if he is attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Decbr 16th. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/30, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 10
Summary:
News of family and friends.
Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/5/16a, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 [Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
H. W. Bates’s paper; CD will review it. ["Mimetic butterflies" (1863), Collected papers 2: 87–92.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry [Holland]
Date:
[16 December 1862]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.20
Summary:
Discusses some of HH's criticisms of JH's translation of Homer's Iliad; JH also remarks on the cause of the Gulf Stream.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.87d
Summary:
Announces a meeting of the Ball Committee to be held at Cranbrook.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Hector Tyndale
Date:
Dec. 17th / 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1446; MS JT/1/TYP/1644-8, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Lodovico Corti
To:
Faraday
Date:
17 December 1862
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.161
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 80
Summary:
Thanks for Journal of researches and Origin.
Thanks CD for comments on his fern paper [see 3847 and 3853]; has great difficulty in expressing his ideas.
Discusses inheritance and variation.
Asks CD for an account of the experiments he would like JS to perform.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[17 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.399
Summary:
Concerned over the fact the retiring pension for John Russell does not provide for his wife and children.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.164
Summary:
About the procedures WL uses when observing, and the responsibilities of an assistant.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project