From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65)
Summary:
Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 21st
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/185, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.259
Summary:
Regarding water in the atmosphere. Effect of the moon on clouds. Some of the curiosities seen by his son while at the Embassy in Japan, including a device for giving warnings of earthquakes. Intends to show combinations of wind currents.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Cavendish
Date:
[1862-4-21 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.329verso
Summary:
JH's reply to WC's 1862-4-21.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
21 April 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas W. Richardson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.488
Summary:
Sends sketch of reflecting camera and describes its composition. Can now make reflectors under 7 inches very inexpensively.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Cavendish
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.329
Summary:
Would like to include JH's name among those proposed for honorary degrees at Cambridge when he becomes Chancellor of the University.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 257
Summary:
Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 14
Summary:
Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[23 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.370
Summary:
Comments on the pressure of the atmosphere; is convinced of the effect of the full moon on weather.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 111
Summary:
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chalmers Guthrie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.149a
Summary:
Two casks of wine will be sent today to JH at Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.27
Summary:
Sends JH a copy of the form to be used for reduced observations [see JH's 1862-4-17].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.5; Reel 10
Summary:
Printing 1000 copies of JH's Catalogue [of Nebulae]. Please transfer funds to GA to cover expenses.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 47 (EH 88206030)
Summary:
Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.
Case of aestival flowers is very curious.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Berthold Carl Seemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 130, DAR 50: E28
Summary:
Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].
Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
25 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:
Sends additions and corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin [1862–3].
Before a German translation of Orchids is done, CD thinks HGB should read part of it and decide if it is worth while; CD has doubts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.260
Summary:
Further comments regarding the pressure of the atmosphere. His sketch was to demonstrate the currents of air. JH's comments on the moon were interesting.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[25 April 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.28
Summary:
Approves of form for reduced observations [see GA's 1862-4-24] and sends GA payment against expenses.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 96
Summary:
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
