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DCP-LETT-3798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 8 November 1862, p. 1052
Summary:

Asks whether T. A. Knight’s tall blue and white marrow peas were raised by Knight himself.

Also asks whether anyone who has saved seed peas grown close to other kinds observed that the succeeding crop came up "untrue" or crossed? CD would expect that such crossing would occasionally happen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13651

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0034; Reel 1062
Summary:

Marquis of Bute [J. P. C. Stuart] purchased property of CB's sister [Mary Anne Hollier] in Cardiff. [Charles] Few & Co., managers of property, sent title for CB's and JH's signatures. Sorry that JH was troubled again by pressure from CB's nephews for money.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4380

From:
Edward Twisleton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.452a
Summary:

At the suggestion of Charles Lyell, requests JH's support for his plan for public school reform. Concerns include teaching of modern languages and time allotted for natural science. Calls for firm grounding in mathematics, including a thorough study of Books I-IV of Euclid's Elements of Geometry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5385

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[8 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.332
Summary:

Regarding financial affairs. Is having trouble with his eyes. Has done little of late.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel20

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 November 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.380.265
Summary:

Accepts an invitation to dine with GA, and adds comments about problems JH is having with his vision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3801

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10–]12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 169
Summary:

So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.

Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.

Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.

Is working on cultivated plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6286

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.47
Summary:

Sends a copy of the first part of A. D'Orsan's new work on Our Satellite. Intends to bring it to the notice of the R.A.S. at their next meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3799

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 122
Summary:

AG has Cypripedium to send to CD.

Civil War and English feelings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1943

From:
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10ten Nov. 1862.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/7, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11898

From:
Norman Macleod
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.260
Summary:

Is the editor of Good Words and is trying to build up the quality of its contributors. Would be grateful if JH could be induced to contribute some articles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2411

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.262
Summary:

Lord Rosse agrees with JH regarding Melbourne telescope. His only objection to proposed increase in size is because of the added expense.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9642

From:
R. Freke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.381
Summary:

Recognizes the force of JH's arguments but wrote his paper not for a reputation in science but for protection of his character as a gentleman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3800

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 77
Summary:

CD is mistaken in considering Acropera unisexual, with only male flowers [Orchids, pp. 203–10]. JS has successfully fertilised two A. loddigesii flowers. One is ripening. Dissection of the other shows the pollen accomplishes fertilisation without contacting any stigmatic surface. Abortive ovules found in flowers that did not become fertilised when pollinated. JS suggests Acropera has both unisexual male and hermaphrodite flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7285

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Dalmahay
Date:
[11 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.392
Summary:

Comments on some papers of JD relating to the theory of rain.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12815

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Lassell
Date:
[11 November 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0221; Reel 1054
Summary:

Suggests Albert Marth of Durham observatory as possible assistant to WL. JH's notes and diagram of nebular ring.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3804

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 9
Summary:

Sends paper on affinities of Plagiaulax ["On Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3802

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 75–6
Summary:

Samuel Haughton was the prejudiced reviewer of the Origin. JDH’s opinion of SH.

Has heard from a W. African collector that P. B. Du Chaillu’s accounts [Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa (1861)] are all false.

R. F. Burton has impudently stolen credit for Gustav Mann’s Cameroon expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3805

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B7–10
Summary:

Discusses whether or not "male" Acropera bear fruit. JS’s interpretation of Acropera pollination is ingenious. Pollen-tubes of some cleistogamous flowers germinate in the anthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4217

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Twisleton
Date:
[12 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.452b (C: RS:HS 23.393)
Summary:

Claims 'I really have no definitely formed opinion' concerning public school curricula. Approves of ET's plan for teaching mathematics and increased study of foreign language.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3803

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 326
Summary:

Sends CD a specimen of the domestic pigeon of China.

Discusses a race of ducks he believes are hybrids between the Muscovy and Chinese domestic duck.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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