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DCP-LETT-4506F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–May 1865]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20)
Summary:

Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5339

From:
Clémence Auguste Royer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 80: B44
Summary:

Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4370

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–May 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 171–2
Summary:

Observations for CD on oxlips, which she finds never grow near cowslips or primroses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3493

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 332
Summary:

Will be proud to publish CD’s new work on domestic animals [Variation]. Will announce it as the complement of the Origin. Advises on woodcuts; does not wish to limit number; agrees to CD’s suggestions for artists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel978

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[1 April 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 6.58
Summary:

Most of the letter is devoted to a mathematical derivation to show that part of son John's work on errors in geodetic observations is in error; however, part is highly praised by JH. Remainder of letter is clearly intended as a morale booster for John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12068

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.434
Summary:

Thanks for letter, but has not received W. E. Hickson's memoir. Regrets JH sees no use in a survey of the North Pole region. The scheme seems to be one that the President of the Geographical Society should encourage. The ribald buffoonery of the Times has done much good amongst the scientific world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4802F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
3 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
Malmö Museer (MM 031993)
Summary:

Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.

Thanks for information about shrimps.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7268

From:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.449
Summary:

A friend of hers is writing a memoir of her brother Thomas Drummond, and would be glad for a few minutes conversation with JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE319

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
4 Apr 1865
Source of text:
HS 16.324, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2632

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.324
Summary:

Written for Mary Somerville. Requests information on sunspots and on William Huggins's observations of nebulae. Mary is recovering from illness. They send regards to Herschels.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 434
Summary:

Discusses proposed publication of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1461

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
4 April 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.262, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel7269

From:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.450
Summary:

Would like a copy of JH's letter that he wrote many years ago in support of an invention by her brother.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7177

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[5 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.103
Summary:

Longs to hear from AD; comments on JH's health and on the weather.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7178

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.378
Summary:

The winter has not killed them, though his wife is a convalescent. Knows Mr. Peters as he is a member of the Athenaeum. Airy has fun in him and a love of Greek Drama. Charles Babbage and James South are at war again. Sends jokes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4805

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 262
Summary:

Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].

JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel902

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 5.22
Summary:

Reports on accommodations and the activities of those family members with JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4804

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

Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4807

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7–8 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 15–16
Summary:

Reforms at Kew.

X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.

Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.

Has written to Busk.

Sending Botanische Zeitung.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4806

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

Fowl MS has arrived safely.

Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.

Further instructions for Luke Wells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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