From:
J Gwyn Jeffreys
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
7 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSJ 1 / 24, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.231
Summary:
Has sent the figures accompanying his second communication to the lithographers. Thinks his letter of 22 Dec. intelligible without them. Will send the proofs of the paper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 102
Summary:
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
10 Jan 1869
Source of text:
J. C. Irons 1896 , p. 215
Summary:
Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 288
Summary:
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[11 January 1869]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H723
Summary:
Requests sending of a copy of recent R.S.L. Proceedings to JH's son in India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Henry Edward Armstrong
Date:
12 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/10/93, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B34–5
Summary:
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
12 January 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.144, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 105, 116
Summary:
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry W. Field
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0195; Reel 1087
Summary:
Asks JH to confirm that JH appointed Charles Sterry as HF's assistant assayer on 25 Apr. 1851 after Henry Bingley declined position. Original letter of appointment is lost, and HF is accused of falsifying records.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 94: 110–11
Summary:
Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/14)
Summary:
Thanks GM for offer of observations. Would be interested to know when the horns of merino rams first appear,
and has long wished for living specimens of Drosophyllum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[13 January 1869]
Source of text:
RGO 6.381.451
Summary:
Has received GA's paper on spectral lines and is amazed that it is possible to see a spectrum in the light from faint nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
14 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/213, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.74
Summary:
Information about the distribution of papers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Jan] 1869
Source of text:
DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3
Summary:
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 103
Summary:
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[14? January 1869]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #55
Summary:
Was going to write in French, but switched languages. Honored by AQ's insertion of JH's review of AQ's Physique sociale as introduction. Has been very ill and has no strength for attention to anything beyond bodily sufferings. Lists works received.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 289
Summary:
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project