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Herschel13843

From:
Few & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0190; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sign enclosed authorization for Few & Co. to obtain Hollier Trust deeds from bank. Deeds will be exchanged for £1000.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4288

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 108; DAR 165: 139, 140
Summary:

Sees difficulties in adhering to the concept of design in nature.

Is surprised at Hooker’s and Daniel Oliver’s ignorance regarding spontaneous movements of tendrils.

CD should continue his work on climbing plants, "it will be fruitful in your hands".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4287

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Family and local news, and memories of old times.

CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.

CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2973

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1863-9]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #34, 35, 36
Summary:

Three maps of meteors observed in 1863 by JH[?] and Alexander Herschel

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1134

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-9-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.65-66, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1451

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-9-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.251, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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