From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 7
Summary:
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–14] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 238
Summary:
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[3] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
3rd. Jan. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/T/1399, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Jany 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/229; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1381-3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Matthew Collins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4] January [1862
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.264
Summary:
Sorry to hear that the almanac did not reach him. Would be glad for any of JH's comments. Has put previous address.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 64
Summary:
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
6 Jan. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1384, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 23
Summary:
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.107
Summary:
Sending a copy of a book he has found of great benefit. News of his household. Mrs. Gordon (JH's daughter Caroline) must have been shocked at the death of the Prince Consort.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Francis Julius von Haast
Date:
8th January 1862
Source of text:
MS 0037-143, Alexander Turnbull Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Miss Moore
Date:
9th Jan. 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1074, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.157
Summary:
Invites JH to meeting of Balloon Committee and updates everything in previous letter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Friday mng
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/972, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11v
Summary:
Announces a meeting of the Society to elect its officers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11r
Summary:
Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 65
Summary:
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Susanna Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 11.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/285, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.468
Summary:
Discusses a depression on a heliograph, which he cannot reconcile with [Frederick] Howlett's observations. Conjectures over-exposure in printing may be the culprit.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project