From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
1 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 23)
Summary:
Thanks for seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 59
Summary:
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 206
Summary:
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 8] Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 235
Summary:
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 223
Summary:
Returns a letter, which, when it is published, he believes will make readers take up THH’s lectures in a more impartial spirit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6)
Summary:
Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jacques Babinet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.4
Summary:
On a static measure for gravity.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 69
Summary:
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Drew
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.504
Summary:
Is going to Kashmir for a geological survey. Wonders if while he is there he can carry out any meteorological research.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[4 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.147
Summary:
Notes ingenuity of JB's gravimetric balance. Astonished that it did not occur to anyone before. [Letter continues 5 Feb.:] Suggestion for improving torsion thread arrangement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.14; Reel 10
Summary:
Returned JH's 'original sheets of nebulae.' Kept sheets of calculations. Will write about money accounts later. Lord Palmerston's communication about Thomas Maclear's pension.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Returns "The Week" [unidentified].
Agrees with THH’s published letter that writer is a man of excellent spirit, but doubts he is a good logician.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014)
Summary:
Comments on CK’s letter [3426].
Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.
On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 1.116
Summary:
Comments on AH's chemical results and on an apparently anomalous sample of common salt being sent by JH; sends AH £5 for the month.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Davidson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.35
Summary:
Many years ago he read a paper to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on the merits of JH's telescope compared with that of William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse); this paper has never been printed. Gives details of his own optical work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.334
Summary:
Hears that his chance of success at the R.S.L. is good. [John?] Lee will forward the certificate to JH for presentation to the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/146, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.6.3; Reel 10
Summary:
Glad that JH approves introducing Julian dates. Notes their use in American lunar tables. Positions of three new nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 [Feb] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 25
Summary:
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 12
Summary:
Sends dried specimens of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
