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DCP-LETT-2972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 141)
Summary:

THH’s term "Pithecoid Man" is a theory in itself.

CD is convinced that his doctrine of a mundane period of glaciation is correct.

Henrietta’s serious illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 316
Summary:

Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.

"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".

Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2974

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 317
Summary:

Discusses pamphlet by A. S. Taylor

and note by A. W. v. Hofmann concerning iodine solution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1737

From:
Hector Tyndale
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Friday Morning (Nov 2/60)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/50; MS JT/1/TYP/5/1627-9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel4496

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (70)
Summary:

More rainfall data.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1135

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[2 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.5
Summary:

Thanks JW for his double star catalogue; JH comments on a few items contained therein.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 24 (EH 88206008)
Summary:

DO’s candidacy for Professorship of Botany [at University College, London].

Henrietta’s health is better.

Paper in Botanische Zeitung [T. Nitschke, "Über die Reizbarkeit der Blätter von Drosera rotundifolia", 18: 229–34, 237–45, 245–50] missed leading point that plants close longer over animal substances. Carbonate of ammonia works on Lemna and Euphorbia roots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11906

From:
William MacPherson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.268
Summary:

Thanks for his letter. Will look forward to receiving his article in time for the July issue of the Quarterly Review.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1738

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
Sunday | 4th, Nov 1860.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/260; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2367, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1739

From:
William Fullarton Cumming
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 4th. 1860
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/279, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11398

From:
Elias Loomis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.309
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's kind invitation to Collingwood, but regrets he cannot find time to come as he sails on the day after tomorrow and has much business to fit in before then.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1740

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hector Tyndale
Date:
Monday mg
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1473; MS JT/1/TYP/5/1625, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2976

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
5 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641)
Summary:

Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.

Mentions criticism of Origin.

Thanks for information about horses.

Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1741

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 3 /60
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/623-9, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel9514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[6 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.316
Summary:

Comments on RF's writing on drifting ice; comments extensively on RF's ideas about air circulation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1742

From:
Heinrich Debus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Novbr 7th 60
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel8036

From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.303
Summary:

Gives probability formula used to determine weights of stars 3 & 35 [see JH's 1860-11-2]. Explains calculation procedures previous to 1856 and those used since 1857.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
7 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 25 (EH 88206009)
Summary:

Congratulations on Professorship.

Homologies between Drosera and Dionaea. Carbonate of ammonia on roots. Wants W. H. Fitch to make drawings of Dionaea. Will copy minute structure of hairs from Trécul [see 2965].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4497

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (71)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his advice. Comments on various aspects of Iceland and Greenland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4287

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (72)
Summary:

Discusses James Stark's weather observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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