From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 5.23
Summary:
Tells MH about the contents of letters from sons John and William, and about daughter Isabella's illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
12 April 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 266
Summary:
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (2005, item 20910)
Summary:
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
16 April 1865
Source of text:
Royal Astronomical Society MS Hartwell 8<(1)>
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 265
Summary:
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Johan Forchhammer
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 April 1865
Source of text:
Forchhammer Brev.-Copi-Bog no. 4 (1859-65), Geologisk Museum, Copenhagen
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.251
Summary:
Thanks for his kind reception on Saturday. Will communicate with Miss Elizabeth Drummond. Gives list of letters he borrowed from JH. Intends to try to meet William Yolland.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of the Reader
Date:
[17 April 1865]
Source of text:
Sydney Ross Collection
Summary:
Appreciates invitation to publish some writings by JH in The Reader, but does not at present have suitable manuscripts. Is no longer active in astronomical observation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
John Murray; Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
17 Apr 1865
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 136–138)
Summary:
CD has asked him to supervise drawings of pigeons and fowls [for Variation]. Sends estimates for drawings and engravings by artists who do such work for the Field.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
[17] April 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/71
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 148: 1
Summary:
Concerning an illustration for CD’s book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
18 April 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 191
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.496
Summary:
The Reader does not plan to publish a list of contributors, but would welcome letters by JH, which would imply JH's support for the new weekly journal of science.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Loyd
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.347
Summary:
The Archbishop of Canterbury [C. T. Longley] will be lunching with EL on Tuesday; will JH join them?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77)
Summary:
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 18–19
Summary:
Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.
Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.
Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.
W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 April 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.83-84, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
William Sullivan
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 April 1865
Source of text:
Unit 1, VPRS 5891 letters from Europe, VA 928 Melbourne Public Library, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
20? [April] [1865]
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project