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Tyndall1858

From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 20
Source of text:
DF 15/2, Natural History Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3401

From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 173
Summary:

Seeks to define oldest fossil cirripede.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3400

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Jan 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 236
Summary:

Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3402

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 27
Summary:

Will enclose list of orchids in bloom for CD’s use.

Asks for photograph; her pleasure in knowing CD.

Most interested in the account of pigeons in CD’s book [Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3408

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 26
Summary:

Thanks for promise of photograph.

Has no melastomads in bloom.

Describes sensitive anthers of Cynorchis.

Thanks CD for "your little pamphlet".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3404

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74)
Summary:

Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".

U. S. politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3403

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 252)
Summary:

Much amused at the Witness.

Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.

Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.

Has 16 ill in the house!

Natural History Review a capital number.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3406

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 55
Summary:

Sends proof-sheets of CD’s contribution to LJ’s Memoir of Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10501

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.378
Summary:

Cannot see how there can be two opinions regarding JH's catalogue of nebulae. Suitable work for the R.A.S. to publish. Further regarding the lost nebula in Taurus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1859

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
Date:
22nd . Jan. 1862
Source of text:
DF 15/2, Natural History Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
22 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks for orchids and other flowers.

Will send photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3407

From:
John Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 176.1: 194
Summary:

Reports that the orchids Myanthus and Catasetum are identical.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9211

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[22 January 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207102 (C: RS:HS 23.359)
Summary:

Thanks for volume three of WW's Plato edition. Responds to WW's comments on JH's translation of the first section of Homer's Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1860

From:
Hector Tyndale
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
January 23d 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/51, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3409

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:

Has had 16 in the household ill.

Wants to meet JL.

Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel352

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 January 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.392.381
Summary:

Has sent an R.S.L. membership application certificate for GA to sign and send on.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel424

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[23 January 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.2
Summary:

Is preparing a list of nebulae and their positions; does GA think anyone would print them?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7649

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.3; Reel 10 (ACCS: RGO 6.200.3)
Summary:

[Responding to JH's 1862-1-23], states that R.A.S. finances not sufficient to publish JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae,' but R.S.L. is 'rolling in wealth.' Work could be done at [Greenwich Observatory], where GA is already printing 'Skeleton Forms for Precessions.' Forwarded R.S.L. certificate for [E. J.] Lowe to W. H. Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3410

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
24 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

CD has sent to printer proofs of his contribution to Memoir of Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9523

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.258
Summary:

Weather has been so interesting lately that he is emboldened to send the enclosed chart. Department is progressing in spite of U. J. J. Leverrier's protest. Picked up one of JH's pamphlets published at the Cape. Sends one of the Meteorological Manuals issued by the Dept.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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