From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
24th. July
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, f. 101; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2093, BL; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
24th,. July 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/520, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.
His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017)
Summary:
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
E[dward] Loyd
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.382
Summary:
Writes to ask EL a series of questions about probabilities related to shooting at targets, with variations in the size and shape of the targets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.15; Reel 10
Summary:
Assistant Samuel Hunter will send WP's observations to JH. Original intent was to confirm JH's nebulae, but WP soon found new nebulae. Trouble finding good assistants. Note on new transit instrument.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.356
Summary:
Should not imagine that he is declining when a hot day comes along. Regarding Thomas Harriot and his theological views.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.225
Summary:
Sends articles he has written for the English Encyclopaedia. Still awaiting results of the professorship at Addiscombe.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
26 July [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.277
Summary:
Thanks JH for mentioning HH's paper. Attributes electrical phenomena to 'a material element,' perhaps a modified form of ether, distinct from other matter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 159
Summary:
Illness of his son [Leonard]. Has done no work for weeks.
JDH’s hybrid orchids are interesting; CD is surprised many hybrids are not produced.
George [Darwin] caught a moth sucking Gymnadenia conopsea with a pollen-mass of Habenaria bifolia sticking to it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (75)
Summary:
AG’s "capital" review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–44].
Thinks there are three forms of Lythrum salicaria.
Discusses transport of seeds by sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 16
Summary:
Sends orchids from W. H. Gower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 244
Summary:
Invites CD and Emma to dine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 115
Summary:
Is observing Gymnadenia tridentata.
Has received six copies of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
1st. Aug. 1862
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, ff. 208-9, BL
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29th July 1862
Source of text:
HP 8:43, IC
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
29 [July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 55 (EH 88206038)
Summary:
Cares more for dimorphism now than for orchids. Today saw the three forms of Lythrum, which means there should be 18 different practicable crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.26
Summary:
If he intends attending the B.A.A.S. meeting in October he hopes that he will stay at St. John's Lodge. Lady and Miss Herschel are welcome.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[30 July 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:
Discusses various etymologies, some coming out of JH's efforts to translate Homer's Iliad. Also discusses a book sale and some anagrams.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
30 July 1862
Source of text:
Washington University in St Louis Libraries, Special Collections (tipped into Orchids QK926.D259 1862)
Summary:
Asks JOW if he can see bee with pollen masses, and gives details for sending it by post or rail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project