From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 171
Summary:
Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
1 and 2 Aug 1861
Source of text:
DAR 263: 49 (EH 88206493)
Summary:
Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.
There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.259)
Summary:
Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray’s suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel’s view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1 August 1861
Source of text:
MM/19/29, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[2 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 50 (EH 88206494)
Summary:
Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[3 August 1861]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H699 (C: Univ.Coll.London MS.Add.227)
Summary:
Asks R.S.L. Council to request Colonial Office to provide official recommendation to authorities in Malta for William Lassell, going there to observe.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
University of Breslau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1861
Source of text:
DAR 230: 9
Summary:
CD awarded honorary doctorate of medicine and surgery by the University of Breslau. [See 3194a.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.46
Summary:
Responds to a letter from JH, which GS has forwarded to Edward Sabine.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698)
Summary:
Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.257
Summary:
Certain the Colonial Secretary [Duke of Newcastle] would write to governor of Malta on behalf of [William] Lassell.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
9 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 48 (EH 88206492)
Summary:
JL’s kindness has laid William and himself "under an enduring obligation". One clause in the partnership agreement seems harsh but will probably never signify.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 46 (EH 88206490)
Summary:
With some hesitation CD’s solicitor advises acceptance of partnership offered to William.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: : 108
Summary:
Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 110
Summary:
Personal regards.
William Darwin will make a botanist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Henry Dallmeyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.1
Summary:
Thanks for his note on the performance of the telescope. Gives suggested reasons for faults. Sends a print of a photograph of a map recently taken by one of his achromatic lenses.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.260)
Summary:
Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.
Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:
Has found hundreds of Spiranthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 47 (EH 88206491)
Summary:
JL is thinking of moving to Brighton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.284
Summary:
Has had no reply from H. P. F. P. Clinton (5th Duke of Newcastle); will write to H. J. Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) later if no answer is received.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[14 August 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0234; Reel 1054
Summary:
Explains JH's objections to JL's shadow-extinction hypothesis of meteors. Believes that several sorts of meteors—magnetoelectric, stony, vaporous, etc.—exist.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project