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From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.372
Summary:

Did JH know when he was Master of the Mint that Isaac Newton had introduced a golden quarter-guinea? Most of his family are at Aldeburgh. Does he know Tristram Shandy's sense of proportion? Charles Babbage has become a public benefactor by the passing of the act against barrel organs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.373
Summary:

Has a quarter sovereign given him by Thomas Graham. Will mention the coin in Notes and Queries. Gives a pun on his own name. Anecdote of rain in India when his father and mother were travelling.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 262
Summary:

Cannot find his Chalk or Gault formation Pollicipes. Inquires how CD sent these back.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Carl Wilhelmi and Theodor Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 August 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 148
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Charles Darling
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 August 1864
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 242, VPRS 1093 Governor's minute books, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Aug [1864-5]
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637)
Summary:

Sends a photograph of himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 242a, 242c
Summary:

JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
[after 10] Aug – 8 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/5)
Summary:

Can understand EH’s feelings on death of his wife.

CD was impressed by manner in which species in South America are replaced by closely allied ones, by affinity of species inhabiting islands near S. America, and by relation of living Edentata and Rodentia to extinct species. When he read Malthus On population, the idea of natural selection flashed on him.

Agrees with EH’s remarks on Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].

Asks EH to thank Carl Gegenbaur [for Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 243
Summary:

Clarifies queries on climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 244
Summary:

Scott would be very welcome at Down for a short visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Aug [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 247
Summary:

Asks JDH to name a Bignonia.

Coming to end of climbing plants paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 245
Summary:

First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.

Nepenthes is a true climber.

Scott has visited Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 245a
Summary:

Believes he gave JDH wrong address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Aug [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 246
Summary:

CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.

Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.

Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[13 August 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[15 August 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth; Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[16 August 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[17 August 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[17 August 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[18 August 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters