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DCP-LETT-4799

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 9
Summary:

University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12067

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.433
Summary:

Sends a Memoir of W. E. Hickson for JH's views so that he can communicate the paper to the Royal Geographical Society. Regarding a maritime expedition to the North Pole. There never has been a North Pole Expedition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.

WBT’s excellent article on crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4803

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 62, 66
Summary:

WBT’s eye is getting on very well.

Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4800

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 81
Summary:

He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.

He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.

Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12964

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[29 March 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0377; Reel 1054
Summary:

Objects to plan to move Royal Observatory to site other than Greenwich, but will defer to G. B. Airy's opinion. JH's deteriorating health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4141

From:
Thomas Humphrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (90)
Summary:

Announces a National School quarterly meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5744

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.232
Summary:

His views regarding the constitution of the sun coincides with JH's. Is giving a lecture for J. P. Gassiot in which he would like to quote some of JH's views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4801

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
31 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135)
Summary:

Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.

Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2037

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eliza Susan Quincy
Date:
[31 March 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.280 (C: RS:HS 24.102)
Summary:

Thanks her for photograph of EQ's late father [Josiah Quincy]. Glad [George] Bond knew he was awarded R.A.S. Medal before his death. Notes the generations of mankind are 'unequal.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4802

From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 175
Summary:

It is Bos arni which dives for herbage and in so doing it also swallows many freshwater shrimps.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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