From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[8 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 97
Summary:
Hooker has written about WED’s going to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.5.4; Reel 10
Summary:
Sending sketches of nebulae made in Nice and Naples in 1843-1845 using K. L. Harding's maps. Please return them.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[8 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 24
Summary:
Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[8 May 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207105 (C: RS:HS 23.374)
Summary:
Sends another section of JH's Iliad translation. Regrets he cannot come to the Cambridge B.A.A.S. meeting. Sends lines of the Iliad translated by Augustus DeMorgan.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
9 May [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 149
Summary:
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
9 May 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.36-37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.260
Summary:
Wants suggestions as to whom R.S.L. should award medals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Helmholtz
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10 Mai | 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/41, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 May [1862]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 171)
Summary:
Nearly agrees on contemporaneity, but THH pushes his ideas too far. Would require strong evidence before believing that the so-called Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous strata could be contemporaneous. Thinks THH’s case on advancement of organisation is strong. But he should read Bronn, before publishing again, and say more on other side. Cannot help hoping he is not as right as he seems to be.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.13; Reel 10
Summary:
Offers assistance for JH's proposed catalogue of nebulae. Will send estimated positions of recently discovered nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
11th May 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1138, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
11 May 1862
Source of text:
HS 16.366, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.366
Summary:
Cannot travel to London. Wishes she could return to her country and friends. Thankful for her health. Wants Herschels to visit Italy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 May [1862]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 132)
Summary:
Asks if WDF has ever crossed wild and common turkeys. Would like to quote his authority [see Variation 1: 292].
Also curious whether WDF has known the so-called japanned peacock to appear from common peacock [Variation 1: 290].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 May [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.276)
Summary:
Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Greenwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.34
Summary:
Was pleased to receive JH's version of Book I of the Iliad. Comments on the difficulties of translating ancient works into modern language. Hopes his health is sounder.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[13 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.149b
Summary:
Times of 12 May called for remedy to industrial pollution. In 1838 JH visited soda production plant near Newcastle and suggested profitable modification to fume chimneys that removed harmful vapors and generated useful compounds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 15
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
14 May [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277)
Summary:
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project