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From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1865–6]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 364
Summary:

Was glad to see CD at museum.

Asks CD to sign and return enclosed item.

CD did not cover oysters in his book; FB can point out curious facts about them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865-1
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.228
Summary:

Has kept the petition and will forward it after the meeting. His brother is now in the 16th book of the Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Janry. 1. 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/2/10/323; MS JT/2/13c/1276, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224
Summary:

Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.

Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.

The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".

Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.

THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.

Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 284
Summary:

Has just been shown CD’s remarks on Tennyson. Upbraids CD for "Owen-like quotation" out of context, and getting source wrong. "If ""facts"" in Origin are of this sort I agree with Bishop of Oxford."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 304
Summary:

Sends photograph.

THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.180 & 181
Summary:

Note with some photographs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mr. Eyre
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.140
Summary:

Will be pleased for JH to see the house and grounds at any time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of Saturday Review
Date:
[1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0382; Reel 1054
Summary:

Passionately protests bill before Parliament for compulsory adoption of French metric system, 'a piece of French national vanity.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[1 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.80
Summary:

Thanks WS for his Iliad translation. JH has just finished Book 3 of his own translation of the Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1865]
Source of text:
RS Sa.684
Summary:

Fragment of a letter discussing diffraction, JH's son's journey to observe eclipse and strong polarization of sun's corona, evidence of vast solar atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1865?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.263, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
--1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.113, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 1st 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/2/10/323, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 245
Summary:

Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].

Remarks on development of the tapeworm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[2] January 1865
Source of text:
JHS 6.59
Summary:

Discusses at length the means of calculating the mean daily rainfall in India, and comments on son John's work in geodesy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas L. Dames
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.467
Summary:

Will be very pleased to assist him in obtaining the fossils, but can he give him the location of the quarries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville
Date:
[before 3 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
Scotsman , 19 July 1929, p. 13
Summary:

Ludwig Rütimeyer thanks CAB for the skull of a Chillingham cow, and thinks it may belong to the Primigenius race.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 164: 23
Summary:

Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 176: 227
Summary:

Regrets he has not yet finished his monograph on Bos. Has examined and discusses the Bos skull from Lord Tankerville.

Would like CD’s opinion on the conclusions in LR’s paper on fossil horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project