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DCP-LETT-4321

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 167–70
Summary:

With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4323

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 78
Summary:

Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]

and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13757

From:
George Phillips Bond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0110; Reel 1087
Summary:

Read of JH's intention to prepare general catalogue of nebulae. Encloses list of unpublished nebulae found at Harvard over past 15 years. Finds similarity in form but difference in theory between JH's equations for curve of object glasses ['On Aberrations of Compound Lenses and Object Glasses' (1821)] and those of K. A. Steinheil and C. F. Gauss. Asks about Josef Fraunhofer's theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11095

From:
James Prescott Joule
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.430
Summary:

Much obliged for his letters regarding the amalgam of iron. Cannot account for his ignorance of JH's Bakerian lecture.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4322

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 42
Summary:

Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6843

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
[Charles] Pritchard
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.151
Summary:

Regarding the 'willow leaves' seen by James Nasmyth on the surface of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2423

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[25 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.21
Summary:

Accepts invitation to dine with ES. Working on sixth edition of Outlines Astr. Has sent argument against converting to metric system to Leeds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2040

From:
Louis Soret
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
26 Octobre
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/87, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel4876

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.263
Summary:

Regarding employment for GA's son in the Educational Departments in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[27 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.22
Summary:

Comments on Greek fire lead JH into a variety of recollections.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4323F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[28 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219. 1: 78
Summary:

CD’s health.

Family and local news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2424

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.273
Summary:

JH to read his paper on nebulae Thursday, 19 Nov. Dinner will be at St. James's Hotel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10511

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.388
Summary:

Sending the revision of the first half sheet for the 1867 supplement containing the latest elements of the small planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4595

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.369
Summary:

Sends regrets to JH over the error in The Leeds Mercury claiming that the Leeds Astronomical Society had the copyright to 'The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[30 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 207
Summary:

Has a letter from Haast on the spreading of European plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2041

From:
Julius Robert Mayer
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/82; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2513-4, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4326

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 172: 40
Summary:

Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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