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Herschel7663

From:
Edward James Stone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.17; Reel 10
Summary:

Gives details of calculations [for JH's catalogue of nebulae]. Three more weeks of work needed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6671

From:
Richard Craven
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.375
Summary:

Has read JH's publication on volcanoes ['About Volcanoes and Earthquakes']. Comments on the formation of rocks and the creation of the world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6627

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[14 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.6
Summary:

Thanks for a collection of poems; comments on lunar eclipses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3914

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
14 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.1-5 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.1-2, letter ff.3-4, address envelope f.5))
Summary:

Asks for account of sales of Geology of "Beagle". Willing to consider offer for remaining stock in order to close account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3916

From:
John Pringle Thom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 107
Summary:

Thanks for a gift of £20.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3915

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B7
Summary:

Health.

Is sending information about Timor fossils to be forwarded to Hugh Falconer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel5020

From:
Anthropological Society
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.401
Summary:

Requesting him to become a member of the newly formed Anthropological Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3919

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 101–2
Summary:

JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.

Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1964

From:
Jean Alphonse Favre
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/19, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1963

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
15th Jan 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/183, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3918

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
15 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 83
Summary:

Particularly interested in TR’s information about peaches. Accepts offer of double-flowering peach-trees.

Will build a small hothouse for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9532

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.262
Summary:

Enjoyed reading the dialogues of Hermogenes and Hermione [JH's 'On Atoms']. Found William Higgins's book some years ago and it appeared the basis for John Dalton's views. Finds astronomy and geology the basis for Old Testament inspiration. How absurd is the modern notion of circuits.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3920

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 154
Summary:

CD’s paper [on Linum] is announced for reading at the Linnean Society on 5 February.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3921

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 82
Summary:

Experiments to cut Laelia stigma from rostellum and then to fertilise rostellum are baffled by "a latent instinctive power". Somehow the pollen-tubes find their way to the style.

Suggests CD study variation in ferns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3924

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 60
Summary:

Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Praise for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3925

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 67 (Letters)
Summary:

Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.

Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.

Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3922

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
17 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 61, 21 July 1989, item 50)
Summary:

Can TR distinguish generally, always, or never, a nectarine-tree from a peach-tree before it flowers or before it fruits? He wants to quote TR’s answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1965

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
17 Jan. 63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2248-50, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3923

From:
Henri Louis Frédéric (Henri) de Saussure
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 40
Summary:

His work on Mexico has some geology, which might interest CD.

He is currently at work on the "filiation des genres des espèces et des moeurs des guepes [hornets]".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1127

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 January 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.51-52, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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