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DCP-LETT-3988

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 55)
Summary:

Further discusses RT’s observations on Cape [of Good Hope] orchids and asks whether it would be possible for him to send some specimens to Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Turnbull
Date:
[16? Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 5 (EH 88206057)
Summary:

Thanks for letting Horwood superintend erection of hothouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3992F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202)
Summary:

A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2418

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.268
Summary:

Sends [Warren] de La Rue's letter on Southern[?] Telescope for JH's review. Swedish Academy working on reviving project of measuring arc of meridian.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3993F

From:
Richard Frean
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
Launceston Library (State Library of Tasmania): Local Studies Collection – Manuscripts (Robert Norman Smith Diaries and correspondence LMSS 0020)
Summary:

Discusses his reading and understanding of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1974

From:
Geraldine Jewsbury
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday Feb 17-63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/29; MS JT/1/TYP/2/656, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
17 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.288)
Summary:

Criticises Dana’s classification of man and his use of fore-limbs as a basis for systematic classification.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8770

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 20
Summary:

DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3994

From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 109: A94
Summary:

Replies to CD’s letter: dimorphism common in Ceylon Rubiaceae. [See Forms of flowers, p. 286.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3996

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173)
Summary:

Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].

Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3997

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 84
Summary:

Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.

Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.

Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.

Received maize varieties from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3995

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 57
Summary:

Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3999

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 171: 97
Summary:

Discusses the structure and particular uniformities of the Shropshire coal-seams and surrounding strata; speculates on their origins.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8349

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[19 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.151 (C: RS:HS 24.10)
Summary:

Suggestions on improving JB's gravimetric balance, constructed on principle of 'Bifilar suspension.' Refers to 1861 report of similar invention by J. A. Brown and another article on this topic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
19 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses experiments that WBT will undertake to investigate whether particular pigeon and poultry crosses produce sterile hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6363

From:
William Corbett Burder
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.128
Summary:

Sending him a correction for his article on meteorology relating to the rainfall of Bristol. Intends publishing a book on climate and will send him a copy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4000

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
20 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Summary:

Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]

and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].

Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.

Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;

Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel455

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.81
Summary:

Is JH interested in seeing G. F. J. A. Auwers's catalogue of JH's and William Herschel's nebulae?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7657

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.11; Reel 10
Summary:

Did JH receive G. F. J. A. von Auwers's catalog of JH's and William Herschel's nebulae?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1412

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.50
Summary:

Asks JH to comment on the scientific merit of a large number of plates on solar spots sent to R.S.L. by Richard Carrington.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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