From:
Count Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.246
Summary:
Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 138
Summary:
Sends photos of the niata ox skull presented by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 192
Summary:
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1863
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:
Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 84
Summary:
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 May 1863.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/488, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project