From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1539, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 1.120
Summary:
Is giving advice about AH's application for a position at the University of Glasgow, and indicating what kind of help JH can provide.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[11 March 1862]
Source of text:
WT 45498.44
Summary:
Asks what AD knows about the Andersonian Institution in Glasgow, which JH's son Alexander is considering as a place of employment. JH then deals with a problem in probability theory, and concludes the letter with a riddle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.8.11; Reel 10
Summary:
Comments on JH's work on nebulae and offers some of his own nebula observations. HA would be greatly honored if JH would include HA's observations in the catalog JH is preparing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.43
Summary:
Thanks for acknowledging his mathematical memoir. Intended his paper on polyhedra for the French prize, but was annoyed they would not recognize his work, so submitted it to the R.S.L. instead. Is sending a paper to William Cavendish (7th Duke of Devonshire), who is a mathematician.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 255
Summary:
Will experiment on hollyhocks as CD suggests.
On desirability of a place for experiments to be set up by Government or a scientific society. Kew is too busy for experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 256
Summary:
Informs CD where, at Kew, to find Epipactis palustris.
Has never trusted Donald Beaton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Richardson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.487
Summary:
Asks for JH's help in defending current patent laws in Parliament.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
A. R. Drummond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.506
Summary:
Has received a letter from the Misses Gretton and in consequence has opened an account on their behalf.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 150
Summary:
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Mar 1862
Source of text:
144, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 14 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172.1: 28
Summary:
Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.
When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Richardson
Date:
[14 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.487b
Summary:
States that the current patent laws are unjust and would prefer to see them repealed rather than maintained.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64)
Summary:
Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.
"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
15th March 1862
Source of text:
RR/4/266, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
15th March 1862
Source of text:
RR/4/277, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
[15 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.365
Summary:
About the solution of algebraic equations and JH's previous work on this topic.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.491
Summary:
Recalls JH having written that an 'annulus of stars might be in equilibrium.' Asks where this claim appears in JH's writings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 23–6
Summary:
JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.
Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.
Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
