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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162.1: 89
Summary:

Found 27 flowers of Orchis latifolia and in 16 of them were dead flies of one particular kind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 110
Summary:

Has not had time to look at Rhexia.

Progress of Civil War.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
1 June 1862
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £240 7s. 9d.

Hopes to meet JH at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s house in London on Friday 6 June.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.451
Summary:

Writes to point out an error in a pamphlet he had written. Discusses plans for upcoming trip to the north.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.11.9; Reel 10
Summary:

More corrections of errors [in reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 66
Summary:

Discusses heterostyly in Houstonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Parsons
Date:
[2 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.225 (C: RS:HS 19.172b)
Summary:

Gives details of William Herschel's youth, to correct errors in TP's anecdote about WH in Stroud Journal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Richard Dawes
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/323, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.426
Summary:

Came to Florence on account of the sudden death of Mrs. [Joanna B.] Horner. Thanks for the translation of a book of the Iliad, but thinks only Greek scholars should read it. Has some queries regarding the migration of hippopotomi; can JH supply any facts or references?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Alexander Stewart Herschel]
Date:
[3 June 1862]
Source of text:
JHS 1.104
Summary:

The family is complaining about not having any news from AH; comments about AH's explanation of the color of copper sulfate by twilight.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 53
Summary:

Sends orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Parsons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.172c
Summary:

Thanks JH for his 1862-6-2. Apologizes for misstatements TP had made [Stroud Journal, 10 May 1862] about William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.11.11; Reel 10
Summary:

More corrections of errors [in reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June [1862 or 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 63
Summary:

Sends musk orchid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/3.21; Reel 9
Summary:

Per JH's directions, forwarded presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results] to J. C. Melvill for distribution to libraries in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Elizabeth Dawson Steuart
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 6th 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/10/3345, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 68
Summary:

Discusses publication of second German edition of Origin [1863] and German edition of Orchids [1862].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.221
Summary:

Is applying for professorship at Addiscombe Military College and would like JH's support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
7 June [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Suspects that bee orchid is self-fertilising form of Ophrys arachnites, which requires insect aid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Juni 62
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2244-5, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project