From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 3] Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 173–5
Summary:
Anxious to see Haast’s letter.
JDH’s views on Poles and Franco-Prussian conflict.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.430
Summary:
President of the R.S.L. has suggested that RM should propose Sir Henry Barkly as a fellow. Comments on Barkly's work in geography and geology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
4 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65)
Summary:
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin Dunkin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.514
Summary:
Is sorry the publication of his own paper on solar motion was too late for JH to notice it in his new edition of the Outlines Astr.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/9/21, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
5 November 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.252, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 43
Summary:
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
6 November 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.69-70, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
7 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B5–6
Summary:
Has read JS’s paper [MS of "Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceae", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] which has interested him greatly. Will communicate it to the Linnean Society if JS carries out a few corrections.
Would like to hear about his Verbascum and Passiflora experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Walter White
Date:
9 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/19/124, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B13–14
Summary:
Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.
EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
9 Nov 1863
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers)
Summary:
CD has been seriously ill. Doubts he will be able to receive a visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0339.2; Reel 1054
Summary:
Notice of annual election of R.S.L. council and officers on 30 Nov. 1863.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Clendon, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 47: 178
Summary:
Suggests a possible explanation of the supposed paucity of intermediate forms in fossil formations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 201
Summary:
Pleased CD has had his [FH’s] orchid paper published [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Extension of CD’s Primula heterostyly work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 208
Summary:
Pleased with JDH’s account of his French tour.
Doctor Brinton, recommended by Busk, does not believe CD’s brain or heart affected. Feels he is going steadily downhill. If so, hopes his life will be short.
Sends Haast’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Moncure Daniel Conway
Date:
11 Nov 1863
Source of text:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Moncure D. Conway papers)
Summary:
Mrs Darwin has written that CD is no better, and visitors have been forbidden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B116–17
Summary:
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 171–2
Summary:
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Phillips
Date:
12 Nov 1863
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Misc. MS collection: Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Summary:
Preparation for his address with particular concern that JP approve the part relating to [Adam] Sedgwick. Urges JP to sit at dinner with him as a sign of approval of the award [of the Copley Medal].
Admits his own dismay regarding the efforts of the younger geologists and zoologists to obtain the Copley Medal for CD on the grounds of the Origin and his anxiety about the next year’s award.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project