From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 162
Summary:
Has passed the time by dissecting flowers of Cruciferae. Sends results, with diagrams, to JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jacques-Louis Soret
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Sept. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/86, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John C. Sikes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.204
Summary:
Confirms through personal experience a passage in JH's Physical Geography regarding an 1860 earthquake.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Heinrich Debus
Date:
11th, Sept.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2401, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 58
Summary:
He collected Splachnum luteum north of Spitzbergen 40 years ago. Now an acquaintance has brought the plant back from the identical spot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 134)
Summary:
WDF’s information on turkeys will be useful when CD resumes his half-finished volume [see Variation 1: 292].
Illness in the family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 240
Summary:
Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 111 (ser. 2): 60
Summary:
Has given directions to save seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.
CD’s diagram of Lythrum salicaria is very remarkable. [See Collected papers 2: 107.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.207
Summary:
Note accompanying proofs of a contribution by JH to 'Survey of Literature, Science, and Art'.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
14 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 192)
Summary:
Thanks JL for review [of Orchids, Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863]; CD published almost by accident, having been led on in part by encouragement from JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020)
Summary:
Asks DO to name enclosed Lythrum received from CD’s sister-in-law [Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.150
Summary:
Regarding the pictures of the moon by M. M. Gussew. Gives details of the eclipse of 1860. Heliograph has been working at his observatory since February. G. Sabler has now left and will doubtless do good work when he receives his instrument from J. H. Dallmeyer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 322
Summary:
Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johannes von Gumpach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.74
Summary:
Thanks for his frank statement on his pamphlet, but would like his opinion later when he has studied it more thoroughly.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160: 4
Summary:
Hopes to have Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds to send soon.
BAAS is meeting in Cambridge and all eminent Cambridge men are wanted present. If his health were reliable, CD would be in chair of Botany and Zoology Section.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 56–7
Summary:
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 169: 26
Summary:
PGK’s brother is coming to England and will call on CD.
He is impressed but not absolutely convinced by the Origin.
Raises a question about which CD wrote years ago: why do sheep degenerate in Australia, necessitating periodic importation?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.208
Summary:
Note accompanying some material being returned to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.182
Summary:
James Glaisher has made two more balloon ascents and reached six miles high. W. R. Birt has been observing at Hartwell during the present lunation and discovered several new spots, a sea, and craters. Sends details. Is sending a petition to H. J. Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) for a pension for Birt and would be glad if JH would look it over and sign it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
17th Septr. 1862
Source of text:
MS-Papers Turnbull 0037-143, Alexander Turnbull Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project