From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 9)
Summary:
Sends observations on Lythrum. Reports bad health of Maud Atherley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
Would like JL to call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[24 October 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0383.2; Reel 1087
Summary:
Apologizes for returning WL's letter unopened. JH receives many letters with postage due from strangers and does not accept them. Did not recognize WL's address in Malta. Gives summary of JH's 3 Oct. 1862 letter to WL that seems to have been lost.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W. Paterson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.243
Summary:
Is giving a lecture on the atmosphere, and wonders if JH has written anywhere on the meteorology of the year 1860.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
From:
Adalbert Adolf Mühry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.377
Summary:
Brings JH news of AM's recent activity, including another book on climatology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 121
Summary:
Sends Nesaea seeds for CD
and stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 167
Summary:
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
27 [Oct 1862]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
Several of the family have had influenza.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
27 October 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.45-46, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.10.17; Reel 10
Summary:
Deposited £20 in JH's account at Drummond's Bank.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162.1: 94
Summary:
Distances between Lythrum plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.383
Summary:
Informing him of a projected change in the scale of weights to be used in the new British Pharmacopaeia. Would like JH's opinion on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 October 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.17-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH hopes to send Asa Gray copies of GENERA PLANTARUM with the autumn box of 'distributa'. JDH discusses Sir John William Dawson's criticisms of one of his essays concerning plant distribution [possibly JDH's introductory essay from FLORA ANTARCTICA], addressing each point in detail. Dawson's objections centre on the flora of Scandinavia & supposed geological inaccuracies, many concerning Greenland. In the past JDH & Sir Charles Bunbury have quashed some of Dawson's palaeobotany papers sent to the Geological Society. JDH is convinced his own conclusions are sound, they have the support of James Hector & Sir Charles Lyell. Dawson is against Darwinism & the theory of evolution by natural selection. JDH notes that there is currently a lot of changes in geological theory & hypotheses in the discipline are difficult to prove, there is an argument about the effectiveness of current species variation & distribution in determining past land formations. JDH believes geological & biological evidence must both be taken into account to form a strong hypothesis. He makes the point that all facts began as theory, just as absolute specific creation is now questioned so may creation by variation be disproved, or it could become established fact. JDH mentions his own work on Welwitschia [mirabilis], specifically characteristics of ovules in male & female flowers, & Gray's work on Cypripedium. Thanks Gray for Asimina & urges him to write a systematic resume of American flora.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Oct 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 68
Summary:
Instinct in cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project