From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Aug 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 148
Summary:
Thanks CD for his interesting papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1867]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Am.230
Summary:
Expresses thanks for JH sending JH's translation of Homer's Iliad. Endorses JH's use of hexameter verse. Looks forward to reading it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.157, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Leonor Fresnel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.382
Summary:
Engaged in bringing out a new edition of A. J. Fresnel's works and has some queries.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1867
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 415–16
Summary:
Comments on proof-sheets of Variation.
His revisions of Principles of geology, 10th ed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 171–172)
Summary:
Asks whether JM is interested in publishing A. E. Brehm, Illustrirtes Thierleben [4 vols. (1864–7)], which has had immense sale on the continent.
Is making good progress with proofs [of Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks WBT for proofs of his new book [Pigeons (1868)].
Hopes he still intends to try the experiment with dyed pigeons.
Was surprised to hear of B. P. Brent’s death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 267 (fragile)
Summary:
Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].
Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
169, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Matthew Arnold
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.408
Summary:
Thanking him for sending the translation of Friedrich Schiller [Schillers Spaziergang, Translated into Latin Verse, 1867].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 349
Summary:
He is unacquainted with Brehm’s work [Thierleben]. Asks that a volume be sent so he can form an opinion on publishing it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.158, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 330
Summary:
Will do his best to get observations on expression among the Chinese.
Reports observations on hedgehogs collecting fruit with their spines.
Discusses the domestic pig of Formosa, its wild ancestors, and its capacity to breed with other races.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
6 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
S. J. Hessel (private collection)
Summary:
Sends the four volumes [of Brehm’s Thierleben] for Murray’s consideration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
7 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 10 (EH 88206062)
Summary:
Thanks for reply to queries. Spectroscope an instance of unimagined glorious prospects of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.371
Summary:
Thanks JH for translation of [Friedrich] Schiller's 'The Walk.' Reform bill will again be before the House tomorrow. Denounces mischief of the Radicals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Harley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.241
Summary:
Intends applying for the chair of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork and would be grateful for a testimonial from JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Leonor Fresnel
Date:
[7 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.383 & 24.204
Summary:
Answers LF's queries of 4 Aug.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Vogt
Date:
7 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms fr. 2188, ff. 302–3)
Summary:
Thanks for CV’s Mémoire sur les microcéphales [1867]. Curious how CD and CV have come to similar conclusions about atavism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.394
Summary:
Many thanks for the Latin translation of Frederick Schiller's poem. Comments on various points of poetry. Further about the Pascal-Newton letters. Regarding William Pearson and the founding of the R.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project