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Herschel11928

From:
J[ames] G[arth] Marshall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1858-6
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.290
Summary:

Is grateful to JH for sending him a copy of the Essay on Meteorology. Takes an interest in the subject himself and gives his views on cyclones and rotary storms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2199F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Librarian
Date:
[c. June 1858 or later]
Source of text:
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188)
Summary:

Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1525

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2nd. June 1858
Source of text:
JDH, vol. 4, 1260, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 236
Summary:

CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2492

From:
Hermann Schlagintweit
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 June 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.353
Summary:

Sends vol. 4 of [Alexander von] Humboldt's Cosmos. Would like to share information gathered in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1526

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Saturday night
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/218; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1929, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2280

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

Hopes to begin pigeon MS in a week.

Has lately been working on bees’ cells and wishes very much to examine a cylindrical one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2278

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48b
Summary:

Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2283

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48a, 50
Summary:

Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2282

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 237
Summary:

Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.

Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.

CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9574

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.315
Summary:

Article on glaciers is from the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was restricted because of space. Mistakes by John Tyndall and others have arisen because his own Letters on Glaciers has been overlooked. William Whewell is to be married.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2281

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

Discusses bees’ cells. Wants hive and swarm; would be glad to have WBT’s box with commenced cells. "I am partly a disciple of Waterhouse, but not wholly."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2283A

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48c
Summary:

Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2283F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 June 1858
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14417

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Will leave London for several weeks when ES's wife is well. Alexander von Humboldt is pleased with English translation of Cosmos. Preparations for magnetic research in Australia, Bavaria, [British] Guiana, and Mauritius. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2284

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1858
Source of text:
DAR 170: 21
Summary:

Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.

Nervous system of Coccus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7815

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 194
Summary:

Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.

Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1812

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.7 (C: RGO 6.694.499)
Summary:

If magnetic observation stations are to be set up and staffed, then personnel should be considered soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2285

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 [June 1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.152)
Summary:

Encloses MS by A. R. Wallace. CD has been forestalled. " . . . if Wallace had my MS sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract!" Wallace does not say if he wishes CD to publish MS, but CD will offer to send it to journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000031

From:
William Sharpey
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
18 June 1858
Source of text:
MM/1/49, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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