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DCP-LETT-5202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Swinhoe
Date:
[Sept 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 329r
Summary:

Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,

but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.

Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.

CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4484

From:
Agnes Greig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866-9?]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Discusses plans for a visit to JH and Lady Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2430

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.280
Summary:

B.A.A.S. appointed Committee to explore astronomical and meteorological possibilities in India. Considers [G. G.] Stokes's recommendation among the best. Suggests meteorological experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7193

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[1 September 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.165
Summary:

Comments on Charles Babbage's entry into Cambridge; strange stories from old letters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7194

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.387
Summary:

Returns his letter. Recommends a biographical dictionary by Charles Hale. Paradoxes connected with theology are endless.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5206

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Sept 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 100–2
Summary:

On his "Insular floras" lecture.

Huxley’s success as President of Section.

D. W. R. Grove’s address. Grove left Darwinism to JDH after "sounding the charge".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[4 September 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/RS536 (draft: RS:HS 15.281 & C: RS:HS 24.1
Summary:

Further recommendations regarding useful equipment and observations to be made in India [see JH's 1866-8-11]. Agrees that meteorological experiments there are desirable. Offers JH's son John's experience of India to ES.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE322

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
6 Sep 1866
Source of text:
HS 16.373, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2681

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.373
Summary:

Thanks him for papers he sent. Has finished her last work. Disappointed that science is often devoted to war and weaponry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8[–9] Sept [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319)
Summary:

Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.

Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".

Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].

Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5207

From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 10
Summary:

Thanks CD for his efforts on behalf of JvH’s Royal Society candidacy.

Is at work on a large-scale map of the Southern Alps [of New Zealand].

The ever-growing goldfields and their effect on the country.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5209

From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 232
Summary:

Sends a "remarkable" enclosure [missing], evidently by a working man, which will interest CD as "shewing that ideas are spread".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12232

From:
Charles C. Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 September 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.89
Summary:

Giving news of the health of his brother, who will shortly be moving to St. Leonard's for health reasons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 Sept [1866]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (92)
Summary:

L. Agassiz’s evidence [for glaciation of America] is very weak.

Thanks AG for arranging for American edition of Variation, but doubts that the book will be successful.

Has found no differences in pollen of Rhamnus so cannot conjecture whether it is dimorphic.

The common oxlip of England is certainly a hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip whereas Primula elatior is a good species.

Reports experiments on the relative vigour of seedlings from cross- and self-fertilised plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12150

From:
D[aniel] Mackintosh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.7
Summary:

Has been travelling around lecturing on geology since he left the London Polytechnic in 1861. Wishes that someone like JH would consider geological features from a dynamical point of view.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel573

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[11 September 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.359.250
Summary:

Has been asked to serve on a new Commission on Weights and Measures; indications are that the metric system is being recommended to the Indian government.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5211

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 178: 75
Summary:

Has had the blocks cut as requested and forwards the proofs.

Encloses article on habits of jungle fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4913

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.301
Summary:

Is glad JH is going to assist with the Standards. Outlines his scheme for the Standards.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Sept [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Blocks for Variation are much improved. WBT deserves membership in Zoological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001470

From:
William Sharpey
To:
James Yates
Date:
15 September 1866
Source of text:
MM/19/67, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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