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DCP-LETT-4240

From:
Philip Henry Gosse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 78
Summary:

On CD’s request to observe bee Ophrys: PHG’s son collected 16 plants – of the 32 flowers, two had lost both pollinia, two had lost one each. He himself found two plants with pollinia adhering to the stigma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 200
Summary:

Requests tendril-bearing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel889

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[14 July 1863]
Source of text:
JHS 5.9
Summary:

Comments on zero and observational errors when using a telescope, and adds some comments about family relationships and JH's nebula catalogue. [Part of this letter is indecipherable.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7155

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.364
Summary:

Regarding translations of Walter Mapes regarding the origin of the word theodolite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5693

From:
George Phillips Bond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.182
Summary:

Sending back number of their 'Annals' to complete JH's set. Remarks on the parts already published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2020

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John William Draper
Date:
15th. July | 1863
Source of text:
John William Draper Family Papers, Library of Congress
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2021

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
15th July 1863
Source of text:
MS-Papers Turnbull 0037-143, Alexander Turnbull Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001484

From:
William Sharpey
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
15 July 1863
Source of text:
MM/19/84, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC1352

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 July 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.144, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4242

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 200
Summary:

He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2022

From:
Julius Robert Mayer
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/81; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2512, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

RS-MM-001482

From:
William Sharpey
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
16 July 1863
Source of text:
MM/19/82, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-4243

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16, 17 and 19 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 99: 13–16d, DAR 142: 37
Summary:

Thanks CD for two letters and his portrait.

CD’s book [Orchids] opened up terra incognita for him.

His work on S. African butterflies continues.

Reports on a moth that punctures peach skins.

Interesting that thoughtful naturalists are forced to admit mutability of species.

Some notes on Oxalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7156

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[17 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.365 & 24.18
Summary:

Agrees that the weather is hot. The word theodolite. Where did he obtain his verses by Walter Mapes? Why not come and visit them?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4245

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
18 July [1863]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of JvH’s letters and report of his expedition. Congratulates him on its success.

Has sent Origin.

There is hardly a place in the world as interesting as New Zealand with respect to geographical distribution.

Will quote the case of the ducks that nest in trees.

Is working hard on Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034)
Summary:

Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1958

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
François N. M. Moigno
Date:
[18 July 1863]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.37
Summary:

Writes to FM to show several ways in which a series of prisms may be used in a spectroscope to have the light exiting in the same line as it entered the spectroscope. [Appends 4 pages of diagrams.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4246

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
19 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 143: 24
Summary:

Discusses geology of Brazil.

Asks for Brazilian stamps for his son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4247

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 22
Summary:

Hildebrand’s paper is unsuitable for the Natural History Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001637

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Walter White
Date:
20 July 1863
Source of text:
MM/21/82, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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