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Herschel9886

From:
John Gorham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.220
Summary:

Has been working on the rotation of colored discs. Would be pleased to show him some of the novel effects. Is surgeon to the local Grammar School.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has an astonishing lot of mongrel poultry and expects next generation to approach Gallus bankiva in red-brown plumage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1430

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
6 August 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.228, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Tyndall1632

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
7th. Aug. | 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/652; MS JT/1/HTYP/518, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2479A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Hill
Date:
8 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Cundall 1915
Summary:

Compares Jamaican with British and European honey combs.

Requests one-half dozen dead bees and 2 or 3 drones from Mr Wilkie’s stock.

His admiration for RH’s varied accomplishments and service "in the sacred cause of humanity" [the abolition of slavery].

Asks whether it is believed that domestic animals long bred in Jamaica tend to assume a particular colour or character.

Are differences observed in the West Indies in the liability of pure Europeans of light complexion and hair to take the yellow fever or other tropical complaints?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1340

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
8 August 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.125-126, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

RS-MM-001479

From:
William Browne Folkes
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
Date:
9 August 1859
Source of text:
MM/19/78, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel9887

From:
John Gorham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.221
Summary:

Proposes to be at Collingwood on Tuesday next. Intends coming early so as to be able to carry out his experiments by daylight.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 Aug 1859
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Will forward ARW’s "admirable" paper to Linnean Society ["On the zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 4 (1860): 172–84].

Discusses geographical distribution of animals in the Malay Archipelago; relation of distribution to depth of sea between islands.

Relation of Celebes to Africa almost passes belief.

Differs wholly from ARW on colonisation of oceanic islands; does not believe in Forbes’s great continental extensions.

Anticipates Owen’s opposition to their views, but "he is a poor reasoner & deeply considers the good opinion of the world, especially the aristocratic world".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1431

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
10 August 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.229, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel9888

From:
John Gorham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 August 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.222
Summary:

Hopes to be at Collingwood on Saturday at 2 o'clock.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4854

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.241 (C: RGO 6.377.442)
Summary:

Relating to his holiday experience in France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4098

From:
Henry Stevens
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1859]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Will send a package for JH through a third party.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13777

From:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 August 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0128; Reel 1087
Summary:

Response to JH's article on 'Sensorial Vision' (1858). Notes on physical and metaphysical elements of perception and consciousness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7301

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug [1859 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B68
Summary:

Wonders whether CD would be interested in a book by Dr Bucknell [J. C. Bucknill?] on psychology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1633

From:
Arthur-Auguste de la Rive
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 18 Aout, 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/360, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1634

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Arthur-Auguste de la Rive
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/361, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7113

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[18 August 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.269
Summary:

Congratulates AD on a successful move to a new house.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8925

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[20 August 1859]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 3 (Sept. 9, 1859), 2-3
Summary:

Recounts experiments JH conducted on the action of the solar spectrum on various silver salts. Explains how JH produced his solar spectrum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1343

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 August 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.133, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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