From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 9
Summary:
Introduces J. P. Lesley, "the most accomplished geologist of the United States".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 77
Summary:
HWB’s concern over CD’s poor health.
Gives accounts of reviews of his book in the Times and in the Revue des Deux-Mondes by E.-D. Forgues ["Un naturaliste sous l’équateur", Rev. Deux-Mondes 46 (1863): 703–37].
Thanks CD for the A. Gray review of his paper [see 4022].
Reports his current work is a monograph on Mantidae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[29 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (Fox 141)
Summary:
Thanks to WDF’s directions, Anne’s tombstone has been found.
CD improved, but recovery is slow. She describes treatment.
Encloses paper she and CD have written [see 4294, which was wrongly addressed by ED and had not reached WDF].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Nasmyth]
Date:
[29 September 1863]
Source of text:
Massachusetts Historical Society
Summary:
Gives advice on observing and photographing the sun and moon. Invites JN to visit JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander B. McGrigor
Date:
[29 September 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.4b
Summary:
Health makes it impossible for JH to travel to Glasgow.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[29? Sept 1863]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b)
Summary:
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project