Search: letter in document-type 
No in transcription-available 
1860-1869::1861::03 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–20 of 58 items

Herschel10924

From:
Alexander K. Isbister
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.270
Summary:

Would like to reprint JH's paper 'On the Projection of the Sphere' in their Educational Times. Can he supply a reduced diagram?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6243

From:
P. W. D. Baddeley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.4
Summary:

Points out error in his own book and enlarges on that point.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3075

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

Thanks for skulls

and information about Ferguson.

Is working on rabbits’ skeletons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
2 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5)
Summary:

Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

New edition of Origin to appear immediately.

Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3077

From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 154–5
Summary:

Will be pleased to review Asa Gray’s pamphlet [see 3068].

Is not surprised that blind cave insects are sometimes found in other dark places.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-3079

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:
3 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks AM for his note. [Asa Gray’s] pamphlet was meant for AM if he thinks it worth accepting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3078

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 101)
Summary:

Making slow progress with Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3081

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Leidy
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:

JL’s approval of CD’s work is gratifying. Most palaeontologists despise it. Delighted that JL has some interesting facts "in support of … selection". Is sure his views will be partially accepted. Has never doubted that "much in my Book will be proved erroneous".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3082

From:
Gideon Lincecum
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1861
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (MS S.P. 604A)
Summary:

Reports on the habits of the cutting ant of Texas, particularly its habit of planting shade trees to protect its mound from sun.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239)
Summary:

Asks for a rabbit specimen;

inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3082F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr.: Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 1-2 )
Summary:

CD is obliged for the securing of [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry]. Since he has already been given a copy, may he return this one?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
7 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/6)
Summary:

Thanks for explanation of cyanosis and clubbed nails.

Hopes GR will work out point about mucus tubes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3084

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
8 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Obliged for offer to observe orchids.

Not surprised that AGM demurs to acceptance of his views. Discusses effects of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1770

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Murray
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
John Murray Archive, Ms. 41214, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel6449

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.217
Summary:

James Challis has informed him that J. C. Adams is to be the new Observer at Cambridge. Does not see how he himself can ever obtain the post. Seems likely that he may give up the profession.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 89
Summary:

Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

Herschel12239

From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.96
Summary:

Thanks for the case of wine. Saw Alexander Herschel this morning and is getting some information from him. Has been on board the Warrior.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
12 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (52)
Summary:

Has received Chauncey Wright’s article.

Reports on favourable response to AG’s pamphlet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240)
Summary:

Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].

Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2024

From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.56
Summary:

Thanks JH for a memoir on the projection of a sphere. Expresses the wish that map-making, so neglected, be taken up thoroughly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available