From:
Alexander B. McGrigor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.4a
Summary:
Inviting JH to give one of the lectures at Glasgow.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Longman and Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/6.11 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
Does JH want any corrections made in plates for Outlines Astr.?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 97
Summary:
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 26 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 59
Summary:
Encloses a cutting from the Field: C. R. Bree on zebra-striped asses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 47: 146–7
Summary:
Encloses flowers of Melastoma from Singapore.
Acclimatisation of plants.
Striped horses in London.
Bees’ cells; has been promised information from the East.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 159
Summary:
Grieves over the death of his second daughter [Maria Elizabeth].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.78
Summary:
Is pleased that JH is to mention JN's 'willow leaves' on the sun in his new edition of Outlines Astr. Will endeavor to make a more perfect photographic copy of the original drawing. Gives a drawing and description of apparatus he uses for solar observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
From:
Joseph Plateau
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
30 Septembre 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/95, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project