From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B17
Summary:
Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian
Date:
[c. 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629)
Summary:
[No informatiion about content.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/503, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Summary:
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[G. Wharton Simpson?]
Date:
[1864 to 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0745; Reel 1089
Summary:
If enclosed item is accepted for publication in Photographic News, JH wants to inspect its press, especially 'as respects the Cipher,' and to receive 25 copies.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.8
Summary:
Reports on G. B. Airy's analysis [R.S.P.T., 153,. 617-] of 177 magnetic storms.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. R. H.[?]
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.155
Summary:
Asks that consideration be given to 'wishes of the Cadet' in selecting a regiment for him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.14
Summary:
About geodesic books and JH's encouragement to John to keep asking questions; indeed JH is almost insistent on son John's writing to JH with questions, book needs, and confidences. JH also talks about finding the arithmetical mean of a number of observations. [Also included is the 1st page of a letter to John from one of his sisters.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864-1 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0602.2; Reel 1089
Summary:
Encloses copy of JH's essay entitled The Yard, the Pendulum, & the Metre... (1863). Speculates on causes for deviation in pendulum measurements. Recommends using torsion gravimeters in 'proposed operation.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
JHS 5.2
Summary:
In response to the gift of a book, JH comments on the philosophy of knowledge, and goes on to say that JH agrees with [John Stuart ?] Mill's rejection of the syllogism as a means of argument. In the postscript, JH comments on the nature of heat.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1864?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.257-258, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1864?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.259, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A letter to Miels Berkeley from Joseph Hooker thanking him for information about G. Baker and mentioning that they had recently been to see Dr John Paget for a diagnosis.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Jan 1864
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31)
Summary:
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 36
Summary:
Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].
Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.13
Summary:
Received JH's two letters acknowledging receipt of 'Volume of Tables of Heights' of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Hopes to visit JH and discuss phenomenon of terrestrial refraction. Received valuable assistance on tables from JH's son John.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
2nd, January, 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3852-3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 106: B8–11
Summary:
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.30
Summary:
Correspondence relating to the fall of a meteorite in South Africa on 13 Oct. 1838, and the provision of samples from Thomas Maclear by way of JH. [Letter illegible in parts.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.332
Summary:
Discusses aspects of JT's new book [The Great Pyramid], especially its front matter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Gill
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
27 (1864), pp. 84-91, Phil. Mag.
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project