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DCP-LETT-5660

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
[Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 31
Summary:

CD wishes his son Leonard to try for University this winter and intends sending Horace to a private tutor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5205

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 5
Summary:

Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 33–4
Summary:

Sends Fritz Müller’s address;

disagrees on Mary Barton.

Seeks name of the Mimulus on which he has experimented [see Variation 2: 128].

Requests flowers of yellow variety of Mirabilis jalapa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13531

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0760.3; Reel 1089
Summary:

Asks JH to sign enclosed certificate over [Charles] Darwin's signature. JS will take it to B.A.A.S. meeting in Dundee next week.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10807

From:
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.160
Summary:

A note to thank JH for sending some Latin verses of his own.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1367

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 September 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.159, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5622

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 142
Summary:

Support CD’s views on variability of species, but believes they must be interpreted "spiritualisticamente".

Cross-fertilisation in the Asclepiadaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7207

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.397
Summary:

In one of JH's letters he mentions a name of a forger; was it G. B. Libri? It would not be easy to detect a forgery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5623

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 119
Summary:

Variation between individuals of a species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7208

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.398
Summary:

Further points on the Michel Chasles forgeries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4609F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 30)
Summary:

Suggests investments for CD;

discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;

mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2038

From:
Eliza Susan Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.281
Summary:

Wants to send JH and [John] Stewart memoirs of her father, [Josiah] Quincy. Praises JH's Iliad translation) and his Cape Results. Introduces her nephew, General [?] Quincy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5624

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 176: 171
Summary:

Reports on a curious cross in peach varieties, in which the male made a firm large peach into a fruit more almond-like than itself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1527

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
9 September 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.1-2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5625

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 60
Summary:

JVC is having difficulty in translating the names of dogs [in Variation]. Also asks CD for help with names of pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6402

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.167
Summary:

Her husband is well again and her own health is much improved. Would be interested to know which photographs he likes best and why.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5620

From:
Friedrich August Hagenauer
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
[12 Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 80
Summary:

Replies to CD’s queries about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 September 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.695.491
Summary:

Comments on GA's theory of the thermo-electric origin of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel234

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 September 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.412.244
Summary:

Is very pleased with resolution about the observations of Charles Rümker [see Edward Sabine's 1867-8-30].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel575

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 September 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.359.534
Summary:

It appears that the Indian government has now approved the introduction of the metric system; JH is very upset.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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