From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166: 199
Summary:
Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 12
Summary:
Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 15 July 1862]
Source of text:
Christie’s East, New York (catalogue 26 April 1995: the Philip M. Neufeld collection, pt 2); Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 305
Summary:
Is obliged for information concerning differences in the bees of Britain. Relates case of the Jamaican bees which were introduced long ago and have remained the same in size and character except that the diameter of the cells is larger, the wax tougher, and the walls of the hive thicker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160: 301
Summary:
Continues breeding guinea-pigs to test effects of warmth on gestation period. Concludes period is ten weeks and warmth has no influence. Offers CD the specimens.
Awaits Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113
Summary:
Observations on Platanthera.
Possibility of trimorphism in Mertensia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.181
Summary:
Outlining events in the projected balloon ascent by Messrs. James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John St Barbe
Date:
[16 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 3r
Summary:
Wants to invest some money, as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
17 July [1862]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:
Thanks for Hildebrand’s offer to translate Orchids into German, but H. G. Bronn had finished his translation before his death (Bronn trans. 1862). Has not yet received Hildebrand’s work on the distribution of coniferous trees (Hildebrand 1861). Asks that his compliments be presented to L. C. Treviranus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 July 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.3.6 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
Stormy night followed by calm morning. Balloon is now filling for 9 a.m. liftoff.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Barnett
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
July 19th | Saturday night.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/79, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 114
Summary:
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James P. Joule
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/138; MS JT/1/TYP/2/662, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 22 July 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 323
Summary:
Confesses to having made a gross blunder with reference to the size of bee cells in West Indian combs [see 3658a].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22nd July 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4114; 6:4202, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[22 July 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0021; Reel 1054
Summary:
After collecting and reducing all nebula observations by JH and William Herschel, JH objects to GA's suggestion that JH should pay for calculations needed to prepare catalogue of nebulae. Hesitates to request additional funds from R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
22 July 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.38-40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23[–4] July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (76)
Summary:
AG’s orchid observations are admirable.
Owen has lectured on birds’ descending from one form.
French criticism of CD’s Primula paper.
Only AG has seen that Orchids was "a ""flank movement"" on the enemy".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.452
Summary:
Thanks JH for translation of Iliad. AS's health has been poor. Invites the Herschels to Norwich.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 101
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9
Summary:
Wife’s health improved by trip.
Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.
Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.
Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
