From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 241
Summary:
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 147
Summary:
Both JDH’s and Bates’s letters are excellent. JDH has said all that can be said against direct effect of conditions, but CD still sticks to his own and Bates’s side. CD should have done what JDH suggests (since naturally he is pleased to attribute little to conditions) – viz., started on the fundamental principle that variation is innate and stated that afterwards, perhaps, this principle would be made explicable. Variation will show that "use and disuse" have some effect. Does not believe in perfect reversion. Demurs at JDH’s "centrifugal variation"; the doctrine of the good of diversification amply accounts for variation being centrifugal.
The wonderful mechanism of Mormodes ignea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Mar 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 214
Summary:
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 320
Summary:
CD can add revisions since he cannot begin work on 2d German ed. of Origin until May.
Schweizerbart wants to publish translation of Orchids. Asks for woodcuts for illustrations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:
27 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
McConnochie 1901 , p. 236
Summary:
Will forward TFJ’s letter to Charles Lyell.
Gives up the marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] for ‘ever & ever’, but ‘with a groan’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Richard Thomas Lewis
Date:
27th March 1862
Source of text:
MM/9/19, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
RT Lewis
Date:
27 March 1862
Source of text:
MM/9/19, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Wilhelm Martin Logeman
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/31, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27 March 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/476-7, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28–31 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.274)
Summary:
Suggests that the height of the water which formed the shelves in Glen Roy was determined not by the height of the blocking glacier but by the height of a col. Notes problems in the idea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.5; Reel 10
Summary:
R.S.L. Council voted £20 for cost of reducing JH's catalogue of nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 March [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.443
Summary:
Hopes JH will accept enclosed little volume.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Plateau
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28 Mars 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/93, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.45
Summary:
Further regarding the polyedra prize of the French Academy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8)
Summary:
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 699)
Summary:
Will try to come to Linnean Society to read his paper, but has been "extra headachy". Fears his paper ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70] will not be worth Lindley’s attendance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[30 March 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.11
Summary:
Ready to send nebula data to GA for reduction; question of dates need decisions [see GA's 1862-1-30].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.4; Reel 10
Summary:
Send quickly JH's manuscript of 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' It will provide work for computer whom GA was about to lay off. Prefers reducing JH's data to 1860's. GA's improvement on F. W. Bessel's reduction formula.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 108
Summary:
Has been reading J. D. Morell’s new book on psychology [An introduction to mental philosophy, on the inductive method (1862)].
Progress of the Civil War.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 31 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/E/100, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project