From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
December 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/206, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
WR Birt
Date:
21 December 1865
Source of text:
MM/15/62, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 112
Summary:
Sends specimen of Californian fish that inhabits mountain lakes. The lakes often dry up and the fish have developed legs to enable them to wander in search of water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.382
Summary:
Regarding the identity of J. P. [W. S.] Jevons. Hopes JH will now set to work on the Odyssey. Sends four riddles.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Burn
Date:
2 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 4 (photocopy)
Summary:
Enters Francis Darwin at Trinity College, Cambridge. Encloses certificate from Alfred Wrigley and £20 entrance and caution money. Wants Francis to have rooms in College.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
6 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7)
Summary:
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Acland d. 81, fols. 63–4)
Summary:
Acknowledges HWA’s oration.
Discusses design in nature, Asa Gray’s views, and his own confusion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 4)
Summary:
Has forwarded FM’s MS to Max Schultze, but did not read it.
Movement of stem apex in Linum.
Haeckel’s paper on reproduction in certain Medusae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
19 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6)
Summary:
Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,
male Daphnia laying eggs.
His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 278, 278b
Summary:
Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.
Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.
Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
26 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Has been ill since April, so has not read all of JvH’s papers.
Encloses his photograph.
Has written to support JvH for Royal Society.
Samuel Butler [returned from New Zealand] is now established in London as an artist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Dec 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 279
Summary:
Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.
JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Edmund Delisser
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 December 1865
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, JMS/13/159, 1866The letter was published as Delisser (1865-6). The text given here follows the manuscript copy. The published version has several differences in punctuation and capitalization. To the MS there has been added in an unknown hand a title, and ‘(communicated by Dr. F. Mueller, F.R.G.S, Melbourne)’. The MS which was received at the RGS on 20 February 1866 was referred on 26 February to Sir Charles Nicholson whose report received on 9 March stated that ‘No reliable observations or reckonings appear to have been made as to the precise positions of the points reached. … The route they traversed is nearly Coincident with that followed by Mr Eyre many years ago…[The] last portion of the Expedition seems to have been through a Country hitherto unvisited by any Traveller – and I think that if another Evening shall be devoted to Australian Geography a short abstract of this paper may be read and printed in the Proceedings.’ The RGS cover folder records the decision made on 12 March as ‘Short Abstract in Proceedings’, but the complete letter was published
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Grey
Date:
1 December 1865
Source of text:
Grey Papers, GL M50(7), Auckland Public Library, Auckland
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 December 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 185-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Albert Günther]
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Archives, DF200/5 (Zoology Keepers' Correspondence, Letters 1858-1878 L-M), f. 264
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl von Martius
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
Martiusiana, II, A, 2, Handschriften-Abteilung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 189-90
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 188
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives, DF3/1/ folder 2, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project