From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866-5 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.3
Summary:
Sends children's book to JH. Believes JH, who reads German, will understand Swedish.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.2
Summary:
Grateful to learn that [collection of William Herschel's works] is being addressed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Emily Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.156
Summary:
Found the enclosed in a bookseller's shop, found it amusing, and sends it to JH to explain the mystery.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
3 May [1866]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49)
Summary:
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.295
Summary:
Is sending a packet of seven papers on metrical and decimal systems.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Emily Hardcastle
Date:
[4 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.154
Summary:
Comments on EH's 'Magic pictures', which JH said he produced and described in a paper twenty-six years earlier; JH is however unable to explain the process chemically.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
5 May [1866]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
5 May [1866]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/26)
Summary:
Writes a line of thanks; includes instructions on procedure for crossing experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 120
Summary:
Thanks CD for invitation. Solicitous of CD’s health. Will let Hooker decide whether CD’s health will allow his visit.
[Alexander] Braun in poor health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 150
Summary:
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Mary (Mary) Turton; Frances Mary (Mary) Lubbock
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[8 May 1866 – 31 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 19
Summary:
Age at which babies first shed tears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 76: B52, 66–72
Summary:
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
9 May 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.118, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[before 10 May 1866?]
Source of text:
Jeff Weber, Rare Books (dealer) (October 2018)
Summary:
Asks for the name of a hummingbird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 10 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 67
Summary:
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 72
Summary:
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 20–1
Summary:
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 205
Summary:
Sends a box of orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1866?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 May – 11 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A76
Summary:
Sends flowers of buckthorn [Rhamnus catharticus] collected on Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project