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DCP-LETT-3336

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec] 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 93
Summary:

Furnishes CD with more information on Volucella and gives him references relating to this and butterfly colourings. States that colours are not necessarily related to resting-places but rather an endowment to enable them to withstand adverse conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3337

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 135
Summary:

Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.

High opinion of Bates.

Orchid anatomy.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1835

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
Wednesday
Source of text:
MS JT/5/11/1363, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel2943

From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.317
Summary:

Forwards letter to HR from [L.-F.-C.?] Breguet, who desires to construct a metallic thermometer for JH. HR requests quick reply from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10498

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[2 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.375
Summary:

Suggests the name 'Clio' for asteroid No. 59. Gives a list of proposed names for asteroids.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
3 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks HWB for references.

Praises his paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", read before Linnean Society, 21 Nov 1861, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862) : 495–566] which solves "one of the most perplexing problems which could be given to solve".

Discusses the difficulties of writing and expresses disappointment at Wallace’s book [Travels on the Amazon (1861)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3338F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
3 Dec 1861
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £245 18s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1836

From:
Arthur Pepys Whately
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
pp. 388-9, Life and Work
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10499

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.376
Summary:

Is grateful for the ample list of suggested names for asteroids that JH has sent. Outlines the difficulties over the name 'Clio'. Would prefer 'Olympia.'. Believes 'Pseudo-Daphna' will be called 'Galatea'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2406

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.259
Summary:

Requests JH sign certificate for [W. F.] Hook. Asks JH to forward it to William Whewell for his signature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
5 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 3)
Summary:

Admires LR’s book [Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten (1861)].

Will attempt to arrange for skull of wild white Chillingham cattle to be sent by Earl of Tankerville.

CD has come to same conclusion as LR on zebus.

CD’s MS of Variation is half-prepared.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9209

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[5 December 1861]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207101 (C: RS:HS 23.353)
Summary:

JH's 'scientific activity' has long been at zero, but JH has of late been preparing a lecture on the sun and translating Homer's Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2407

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[6 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.354
Summary:

Has signed certificate for [W. F.] Hook. [See ES 1861-12-5] Congratulates ES [on presidency of R.S.L.]. JH on B.A.A.S. balloon committee. Proposes design for metallic thermometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1837

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editor of The Athenaeum
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
; 14 December, 1861, p. 808, Matterhorn Museum, Zermatt; The Athenaeum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
7 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 3 (EH 88205987)
Summary:

Trusts DO’s opinion on Acropera ovules.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12887

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Barclay Pentland
Date:
[7 December 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0299; Reel 1054
Summary:

Recalls mutual friends, Georges Cuvier and Mary Somerville. Gratitude for JP's kindness in Rome to JH's daughter, Margaret Louisa, now deceased. Asks JP to assist newlyweds David and Mary Power, who are caught in Rome by David's failing health and need advice on medical treatment. [Annotation by Constance Anne (Herschel) Lubbock identifies couple as David Power and bride Mary Lipscompe. David died soon after, and his widow married JH's son John.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13770J

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50
Summary:

Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2456

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 December [1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.310
Summary:

A metallic thermometer will be constructed at Kew Observatory to test JH's proposal. Experiments on Index of Friction of gases to be resumed at Kew.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3341

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 136, 129c
Summary:

Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].

H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11277

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.180
Summary:

Would like JH's approval to submit the enclosed certificate on behalf of JH's son. No. 29 of the Record of Recreative Science contains a good article on Light by E. J. Lowe, who mentions JH's name.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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