From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 262
Summary:
Cannot find his Chalk or Gault formation Pollicipes. Inquires how CD sent these back.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Aug. 1864
Source of text:
6:4487, Faraday Correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 62, 66
Summary:
Spent two days watching Epipactis palustris in a bog. Never saw a moth.
Thinks "Suddenism" and not "Graduality" is the great Law of Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Aug [1864-5]
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637)
Summary:
Sends a photograph of himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
August 2. 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/172; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2013-4, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 113
Summary:
Thanks CD for loan of £10.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Huber
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
3 Aout 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/509, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–]6 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 109
Summary:
Replies to CD’s queries on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 67
Summary:
A minute black beetle visits the flowers of Epipactis grandiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.278
Summary:
Sending him the draft of the Report of the Standards Committee for his signature.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 242a, 242c
Summary:
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Agnes Greig
Date:
5 Aug 1864
Source of text:
MS3F-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 August 1864]
Source of text:
JHS 5.24
Summary:
About family finances, JH's health, and activities around the house.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.159
Summary:
Sending a photograph of the moon 38" in diameter. Begs him to accept it as a mark of appreciation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
[8 August 1864]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 24 (1864), 220-1
Summary:
Describes a revolving eyepiece that could protect the eye from excess light in solar observation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Jean François Léonard Alexandre de Colnet d’Huart
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 9 Aout 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/136, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
9 August 1864
Source of text:
MM/10/81, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
9 August 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/35, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[9 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.56
Summary:
Believes he will complete Iliad.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 38
Summary:
Sends photographs of himself and his late wife [Anna Sethe]. Describes death of his wife.
Plans trip to the Alps.
Thanks CD for biographical information about himself.
Mentions Goethe as early evolutionist.
Cites Kant as early supporter of epigenesis.
Mentions criticism of CD’s theory by R. A. von Kölliker ["Über die Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project