To John Tyndall 12 August [1874]
Summary
Returns proofs [of JT’s Belfast address, Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii]. Gratified by what it says about his work and is anxious to read the whole address; it is a grand subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 21 (EH 88205959) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9599 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … DAR 261.8: 21 (EH 88205959) Charles Robert Darwin Bassett 12 Aug [1874] John Tyndall …
- … To John Tyndall 12 August [1874] …
- … this letter and the letter from John Tyndall, 5 August 1874 . Tyndall had asked CD to read …
- … selection (see letter from John Tyndall, 5 August 1874 , and Tyndall 1874 , pp. lxxxiii– …
To John Tyndall 11 August [1874]
Summary
CD has not received the proofs [of JT’s Belfast address to BAAS].
Wishes JT were through with Belfast [meeting of BAAS, 1874]. CD cannot imagine surviving such a week of excitement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 20 (EH 88205958) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9597 |
To John Tyndall 9 March [1874]
Summary
Asks JT to support his nephew, Henry Parker, for election to the Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 9 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 33 (EH 88205971) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9343 |
To John Tyndall 27 December 1874
Summary
Asks JT to persuade Lady Lubbock to change physicians and put herself in the care of Andrew Clark. Thinks this alone will save her.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 22 (EH 88205960) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9784 |
From John Tyndall 5 August 1874
Summary
Asks CD to look over those parts of the proofs of his Belfast address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii] that mention CD.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9587 |
From John Tyndall 28 December 1874
Summary
JT had not known Lady Lubbock was ill. Will try to persuade her [to change physicians]. Agrees Andrew Clark is best.
Hooker has survived his crisis [death of his wife].
St G. J. Mivart’s act is a natural outflow of his character.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9787 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 August 1874
Summary
It is splendid how Nepenthes is behaving. Drosera and Dionaea are insignificant by comparison.
Takes rather a malicious pleasure in JDH’s failure with Cephalotus as a match to his with Utricularia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 332–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9604 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … for the Advancement of Science ( Tyndall 1874 ). John Lubbock gave an evening lecture on …
- … 1874 . CD stayed with Thomas Henry Farrer at Abinger, Surrey, from 25 to 30 July 1874, and with his son William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton from 30 July to 24 August 1874 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). John Tyndall …
From Charles Lyell 1 September 1874
Summary
Comments on Tyndall’s [Presidential] Address at Belfast meeting [of BAAS] and praise of CD’s work there. Mentions criticism of Belfast clergy.
CL saw some crustacean footprints while in Ireland.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 445-6; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9619 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … minor changes. John Tyndall ’s presidential address on 19 August 1874 at the Belfast …
- … 20: 763–82. Tyndall, John. 1874b. Presidential address. [Read 19 August 1874. ] Report of …
- … Tyndall 1872a and 1872b ). John Hewitt Jellett , president of the mathematical and physical section of the British Association in 1874, …
Tyndall, John. 1874b. Presidential address. [Read 19 August 1874.] Report of the 44th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1874): lxvi–xcvii.
From E. A. Darwin 17 [March 1874]
Summary
Reports the balloting [for Henry Parker at the Athenaeum?] went off just right.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 [Mar 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9365 |
Tyndall, John. 1874a. On some recent experiments with a fireman’s respirator. [Read 21 May 1874.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873–4): 359–61.
From J. D. Hooker 29 December 1874
Summary
Explains that his letter had to do with how he should act publicly to Mivart if he retracted. He would not forgive him. If he does not retract, it would no longer be possible to keep him Secretary of the Linnean Society.
Drosophyllum will be sent when weather permits.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 243–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9788 |
From John Tyndall 23 February [1871]
Summary
Has devised a respirator for firemen by moistening cotton wool with glycerine and adding charcoal. JT suggests the nose with its hairs and mucus is a respirator that would give protection against diseases caused by floating particles. The presence of hair and mucus is thus explained by CD’s theory.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7508 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 January 1875
Summary
Tyndall, T. A. Hirst and Spencer dissuade him from writing to Mivart, but he will let him feel his disapproval.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9807 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 January [1875]
Summary
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 367–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9809 |
To ? 17 February [1875–8]
Summary
Tells correspondent how to locate Michael Faraday’s widow [Sarah Barnard].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1875-8] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9859 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1874, and by the date of the death of Sarah Faraday (see n. 2, below). Michael Faraday died in 1867. His wife, Sarah Faraday , died on 6 January 1879 ( England & Wales, national probate calendar ( index of wills and administrations ), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 May 2014)). Faraday had been Fullerian Professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain; John Tyndall …
From T. H. Huxley 23 December 1874
Summary
Entirely sympathises with CD about Mivart’s attack on George. THH has had a letter from Mivart in which he pleads guilty, but THH has decided there is no patching the matter up. Advises against doing anything unless Mivart takes initiative.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 356–7; DAR 166: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9773 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.
Tyndall’s answer [Nature 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;
great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.
A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [Rep. BAAS 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].
Has heard Huxley is back quite well.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 173–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9063 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Stephen Smith and William Spottiswoode . Hooker was mistaken; it was not the mayor of Cork but the mayor of Belfast, James Alexander Henderson , who had proposed Thomas Andrews , professor of chemistry at Queen’s College, Belfast, as president. See The Times , 23 September 1873, p. 5, and 27 September 1873, p. 12. Tyndall did serve as president of the 1874 …
From M. D. Conway 18 November 1878
Summary
Invites CD to join the Association of Liberal Thinkers and encloses information on its constitution. Huxley and Tyndall are co-operating.
| Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11746 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Tyndall . Thomas Henry Huxley was president of the association ( Conway 1904 , 2: 353). William Kingdon Clifford , Isidor Kalisch , James Martineau , and George Jacob Holyoake . Brahmoism: a reformed Hinduism of a theistic character founded in 1830 ( OED ). The periodical was not established. Conway had edited an anthology of religious writings ( Conway 1874 ; …
From Ludwik Masłowski 14 May 1873
Summary
Requests permission to translate Descent into Polish.
| Author: | Ludwik Masłowski |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8910 |
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