From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 106
Summary:
Asks WED to make some observations on differences in pods of Lythrum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 64–5
Summary:
Has sent Masdevallia and other plants.
J. J. F. W. v. Parrot’s Ararat [(1834), trans. W. D. Cooley, in The world surveyed in the XIXth century, vol. 1 (1845)] refreshing in its simple faith in the ark.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Couch Adams
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Oct. 25th 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 32
Summary:
CD’s health is bad.
Would like to visit CD on Friday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
Date:
[25 October 1862]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:
Discusses standards of weight and measure, especially the idea of a proposed unit called the 'Medical Grain.' JH strongly opposes this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Sharpey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.19; Reel 10
Summary:
R.S.L. Council voted additional £20 for reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae. Inform Walter White where money should be sent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project