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DCP-LETT-2259

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
18 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Thanks LJ for his MS [of "Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5].

Will read it at his hydropathic establishment [Moor Park], where he is going for a rest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1066

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
18 April 1858
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.152, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall1509

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 20th 1858.
Source of text:
HP 8:35, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14413

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.2; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends proofs of editor's notes from vol. 4 of [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of Alexander von Humboldt's] Cosmos. Assumes that JH and magnetic committee members all have copies of 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Managed to clear up 'mystification' in J. B. Biot's account of pendulum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1510

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday 21st. April / 58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/892, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1511

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
HP 8:34, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2260

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[21 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

"Excessively" interested in theory of bees’ cell formation.

Fears few of his pigeons will be of any use to WBT.

Hopes WBT will describe foreign poultry breeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1512

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Thursday.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/9/2899, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10563

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]-4-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.440
Summary:

Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8165

From:
Joseph Wolff
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.432
Summary:

After JW's 1843-45 mission to find Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly in Bukhara [Uzbek], JW was given poor parish in Dorsetshire. Attempting to raise £1,000 for new church and school. Would JH contribute?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3114

From:
Andres Poey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.171
Summary:

Has read with much pleasure JH's dissertation on meteorology published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Requests an English version. Sends several memoires on meteorology. Regrets not being able to send a complete set. Asks JH to send other works for the Observatory of Havana.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1513

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 24 '58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/614, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 33
Summary:

Concerned about ED’s headaches, CD writes an affectionate letter.

Believes he has found a rare slave-making species of ant.

Is reading novels: Beneath the surface and Three chances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 24
Summary:

Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2263

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 232
Summary:

Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.

Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2262

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Apr [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151)
Summary:

Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.

Discusses migration of plants and animals.

A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE522

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
26 Apr 1858
Source of text:
126, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Tyndall1514

From:
Thomas Romney Robinson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
April 26. 58
Source of text:
MS JT/1/R/32; MS JT/1/TYP/3/1019, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14414

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.3; Reel 1093
Summary:

ES's paper on magnetic observatories in colonies is same as 'Introduction' to vol. 3 of Toronto observations. Publisher has delayed [Elizabeth J. Sabine's] translation of vol. 4 of Cosmos; please send JH's copy of 'Editor's Notes' to other members of magnetic committee. J. B. Biot intentionally subordinated English pendulum experiments to French experiments, and Alexander von Humboldt was misled.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 34
Summary:

CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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