From:
Thomas Humphrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.9.4 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
Announces quarterly meeting of National School Committee on 27 June.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 June [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82)
Summary:
Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy
and information on marriage laws.
Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.
Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
26 June 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.249-250, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.257
Summary:
Thanks for article by JH's son Alexander Herschel on meteors. Has printed it in Bulletin of the academy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June [1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 17)
Summary:
Spoke to Rosas, and gave him CD’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.271
Summary:
R.S.L. Council has decided to publish correspondence regarding the Melbourne telescope. Sends early pages for JH's corrections.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 June [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 225)
Summary:
Has caught a frog and examined its possibly rudimentary toe. Asks THH if he will dissect it.
Has heard THH is abused in Edinburgh Review and in Anthropological Review [reviews of Man’s place in nature, Edinburgh Rev. 117 (1863): 541–69 and Anthrop. Rev. 1 (1863): 107–17].
Owen on heterogeny and the aye-aye.
Has been very ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Elizabeth Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 June [1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0342; Reel 1087
Summary:
Received JH's translation, which is better than any blank verse can do. Invites JH to visit Lyells.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 June 1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11)
Summary:
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June – 7 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 58
Summary:
Progress of pigeon and poultry breeding experiments. No loss of fertility observed yet.
Blue-eyed cats and deafness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Bridport Becher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.32
Summary:
Has been very busy, which will account for his error. Will adopt JH's plan.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.153
Summary:
Hopes to move Caroline (JH's daughter) to the seaside; then she will have a better chance of making a recovery. Probably expecting Willy home soon.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 94
Summary:
Would like WED to send a specimen of the unusual plant organ of which he sent a drawing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2]9 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 147–8
Summary:
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Titus Armellini
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.407
Summary:
New invention for measuring barometrical variations on an increased scale.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project