From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr – May? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 9–10
Summary:
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 237
Summary:
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 377, DAR 174.1: 22
Summary:
E. A. Parkes informs him there will be difficulty about the Army returns [on CD’s Query to Army surgeons, see Freeman, Works of Charles Darwin, p. 111] owing to official obstructions by Director General. [Enclosed letter from Parkes to GB says that the Director General does not think that Army surgeons could be asked to collect information systematically for CD, but perhaps some informal, voluntary arrangement could be made.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.275)
Summary:
Explains how melting of ice in Glen Spean could have successively freed two lower cols, thus establishing the water-levels that determined the two lower shelves in Glen Roy.
Plans to read a paper to the Linnean Society ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Octavian Blewitt
Date:
2 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/16 1862 file 3)
Summary:
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.10
Summary:
Is sending first part of observational data for nebula catalogue [see GA's 1862-3-31].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.13
Summary:
Forgot, in earlier note [see JH's 1862-4-2], to indicate agreement with GA's suggestions [see GA's 1862-3-31].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.14
Summary:
Material sent by JH [see JH's 1862-4-2] arrived safely.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.16; Reel 10
Summary:
Please send receipt for £20.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[4 April 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0193; Reel 1054
Summary:
Reports the disappearance of a nebula seen by William Herschel in Coma Berenices, but which H. L. d'Arrest did not locate in 1850.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/5/11, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Newman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 172.2: 38
Summary:
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 32
Summary:
Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.
How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[7 April 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:
Thanks for HT's St. Clement's Eve. Has been reading it with much interest. Praises it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1
Summary:
Cannot accept invitation at present.
Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Julius P. Scrope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.183
Summary:
Thanks for volume on physical geography and for encouragement at start of GS's career. Hopes JH will approve of GS's latest work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 23
Summary:
Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.15
Summary:
Acknowledgment of receipt of more material from JH [see GA's 1862-4-3].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 148
Summary:
On Vanilla.
Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of Menyanthes
and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".
The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.381
Summary:
Was interested to receive the information regarding another missing nebula; would like to mention it at the R.A.S. The late George Bishop's observatory is now being rebuilt at Twickenham. Will return N. R. Pogson's table of Julian dates tomorrow. Has adopted the first of JH's suggestions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project