From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Benge Dobell
Date:
6 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 389
Summary:
Thanks for information [on regeneration quotation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.338
Summary:
Sending a paper he has written on his ozone experiments; please communicate it to the R.S.L. if JH thinks it worthy. Would JH request the R.S.L. to re-suspend EL's certificate as he seems certain of some support from Council. Will soon complete his work on ferns.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/105, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 114–16
Summary:
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 38
Summary:
Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289)
Summary:
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
6 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 93: B66–8, B71
Summary:
Answers JS’s criticism of natural selection, which he doubts JS understands. CD does not believe in an "innate selective principle".
To understand "utility" JS should read CD on correlation.
Origin of maize: no longer thinks husked form was wild because of Asa Gray’s evidence on its variability.
Has information from Thomas Rivers on weeping habit in trees.
JS’s experiments on coloured primroses.
Encloses bibliographical note on Passiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[6 March 1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS374A
Summary:
Supports G. P. Bond of Harvard College for foreign membership of R.S.L.; proposes H. E. Sainte-Claire Deville for the Rumford Medal, for his development of a high temperature laboratory furnace applied to metallurgy and the 'disseverance' of the hydrogen and oxygen of water.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project