From Robert Hunt 19 July 1855
Summary
Discusses how best to simulate the light at a particular point on the earth’s surface using coloured glass; considers sunlight as composed of three "principles", varying in proportion according to latitude, which affect germination, lignification, and floriation.
Author: | Robert Hunt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1721 |
To Robert Hunt 22 July [1855]
Summary
Mentions RH’s book on light [Researches on light in its chemical relations, 2d ed. (1854)]. Asks about coloured glass used in experiments on plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
Date: | 22 July [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1727 |
From Robert Hunt 24 July 1855
Summary
Informs CD which colours of glass accelerate germination, lignification, and floriation; advises CD on obtaining such glass and offers his help in any experiments.
Author: | Robert Hunt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1730 |
To Robert Hunt 31 July [1855]
Summary
Mentions experiments on plants involving coloured glass. Encloses correspondence from glass maker and asks advice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
Date: | 31 July [1855] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (28 September 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1734 |
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
Date: | 3 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
letter | (5) |
Hunt, Robert | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hunt, Robert |