From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-10-1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.260, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.377
Summary:
Has long advocated the right to contract. Has no fear that the metrical system will become compulsory. American named J. W. Nystrom wishes to introduce a unit of 16. Comments on the Bible being 'every word of it is God's word.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 144
Summary:
Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.
Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 205)
Summary:
Admires THH’s article on Kölliker’s and Flourens’ criticisms of Origin [in Natural History Review (1864): 566–80].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Robert Napier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.144
Summary:
Professor W. J. M. Rankine lent JN JH's paper on the meter, yard, and foot. Would JH present a copy to the Institution of Engineers in Scotland? JN is president at the moment and hopes to introduce this subject. Hopes that JH will publish any further ideas he has on the subject.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.52
Summary:
Was pleased with JH's weighty and judicious rebuke. Sends a copy of a letter he wrote to the Times concerning religion and the natural sciences.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 231
Summary:
Sends £10 for Down charities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Ramsay
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5. Oct 1864.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/4; MS JT/1/TYP/3/1006, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 302
Summary:
Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Beck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 103–103/4
Summary:
Has heard about but not read Origin; is concerned that it may contribute to unbelief. Gives many pages of scriptural quotations and exegesis on the creation of earth, species, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph A. F. Plateau
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.168
Summary:
Submits some observations concerning the experiment mentioned in JH's last letter [1864-9-25]. Discusses in detail his results of an experiment concerning the impossibility of a stable equilibrium. Decides stable equilibrium exists only in vertical position, not in horizontal. Sends another copy of his latest paper. Mentions a printing error in his memoir concerning molecular attraction.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.167
Summary:
Encloses lithographs of some of his drawings of nebulae, and two tracings of [?] 2241. Has presented his large equatorial to Melbourne and invited the Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] to Malta to observe through the telescope before it is dispatched to Australia. Would also welcome a visit from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1864]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1864): 965
Summary:
Asks anyone who possesses a treatise on gardening, or an almanac, one or two centuries old, to look up what date is given as the proper period for sowing scarlet runners or dwarf French beans. CD wants to ascertain whether these plants can now be sown earlier than was formerly the case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Edward Frere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 2
Summary:
Responds to the letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 8 October 1864].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 251
Summary:
Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].
CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9. Oct. 64
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2268-9, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
James Buckman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 1
Summary:
Sends a poem about sowing kidney beans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Cook Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 271.2: 4
Summary:
Encloses an extract concerning beans from the Systema Horticultureæ of 1688 by J. Worlidge. Will be pleased to lend the volume if needed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.21
Summary:
Would like JH's permission to make public JH's letter of 1826-11-14 in defence of the conduct of the late Humphry Davy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1185; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2027, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project