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Herschel6351

From:
Emma Buckle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 November [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.115
Summary:

Would like JH's support for sending a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury for a Civil List pension for herself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4346

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 141
Summary:

CD’s poor health.

Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2043

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS CG/3/1/7; 6:4409, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10634

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[23 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.23
Summary:

Response to some papers sent to R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[23 November 1863]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:

Has learned JH has been named to the B.A.A.S. 'Committee of Weights and Measures.' Requests addresses for various members of the committee so that JH can send each a copy of a paper JH published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6844

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.152
Summary:

Thinks it possible that a letter he wrote to Charles Pritchard may have been passed to JH. Thinks there is some substance in James Nasmyth's claim on seeing 'Willow leaves' on the surface of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12242

From:
John Henry Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.99
Summary:

Will call on W. Bonsey on his way to Devon and may be able to give a valuation of the house and grounds at Slough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000547

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
24 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/10/71, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel11163

From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.51
Summary:

Having sent a bad proof, now sends a sound one.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
25 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58)
Summary:

CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.

Thanks RT for orchid specimen.

Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.

Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.

Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2044

From:
Karl Hermann Knoblauch
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
November 28th | 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/K/23; MS JT/1/TYP/7/2508, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[before 27 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 53 (EH 88206036)
Summary:

Recommends Wyman’s short notice ["Report on Dr Jeffries Wyman’s experiment on the cause of contractility in vegetable tissues"] in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 (1852–7): 167.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6352

From:
Emma Buckle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 November [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.116
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter. Thomas Graham will forward a letter of recommendation with the memorial and she would also like a note from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4878

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.265
Summary:

Requesting JH to write to Thomas Maclear to get him to finish his work on the Trigonometrical Survey of the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4348

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Summary:

On Wedgwood vases for JDH.

Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2045

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS-Papers Turnbull 0037-143, Alexander Turnbull Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4349

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 24
Summary:

Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,

and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[27 November 1863]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:

Does not personally know any members of the committee [Committee for the Restoration of the Standards] except Prof. [William Hallowes] Miller. Consequently, asks GG to distribute JH's paper 'officially.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2046

From:
Alexandre-Eugène Béguyer de Chancourtois
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28 9bre
Source of text:
MS JT/1/C/20, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037)
Summary:

Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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