From:
George St Clair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 6 (fragile)
Summary:
Reports on a family of cats observed locally in which some members are six-toed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Beddoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A21–3
Summary:
Encloses results of several more years of observation on conjugal selection and hair coloration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 143
Summary:
Declares himself CD’s defender; but he is a "teleologist".
Sends CD three more papers.
His research confirms his faith and belief in variability of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 169
Summary:
Announces his return to England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Aug 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 49
Summary:
Will obtain some Drosophyllum seed for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
24 and 25 Aug 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.376)
Summary:
Thanks FD for his three publications.
CD is pleased that FD has discussed Pangenesis, although he does not favour the hypothesis. Will seek English publisher.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Aug 1869
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Inquires about the differences in plumage between chicks and adults of certain poultry breeds. Is anxious to know whether the chick’s plumage closely approaches the adult’s in those breeds in which the sexes resemble each other in plumage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: 1–2
Summary:
On the colours of sexes of Australian bees [see Descent 1: 366].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
27 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 546
Summary:
Will not trouble WCT for more specimens of Drosophyllum. Hooker says genus is closely allied to Drosera, though having such different habits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Justus Liebig
To:
JLW Thudichum
Date:
8 August 1869
Source of text:
MM/1/3, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Vernon Harcourt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.221
Summary:
Is very pleased that JH has accepted his little volume. Is sure JH would have made a success of a similar work. Behavior of animals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
30 August [1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0950.2; Reel 1083
Summary:
Discusses in detail the then currently debated issue of a 'mintcharge or seigniorage' on gold coinage. Also discusses the idea of an international coinage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Romney Robinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.381
Summary:
Sends 'first fruits' of Melbourne telescope in form of a letter from [A.] LeSueur and [R. L. J.] Ellery. Includes discussion of nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W[ilhelm] Veltmann
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.461a
Summary:
Apologizes for not acknowledging JH's work. Asks for copy of Royal Geographical Society's papers. Discusses [François] Arago's work on light beams and prisms. Requests JH's opinion concerning [Wilhelm] Klinkerfues's theory of light, which seems to make [Augustin] Fresnel's hypothesis superfluous.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[18 August 1869]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #53
Summary:
Thanks for second volume of Physique sociale. Happy to see AQ refuting 'the results of statistics of life, accident, crime...[as] indicative of an absence of free agency in human beings and the presence of some sort of impelling necessity.' Mentions JH's daughter's marriage and her learning Chinese.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.273 (C: Académie belgique: #56)
Summary:
Is trying to get JH 2 copies of Physique sociale. Discusses additions. Addresses JH's comments concerning power of a supreme being. Sends 19th volume of annals of observatory and AQ's work on international congress on statistics.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.274 (C: Académie belgique: #54)
Summary:
Thanks JH for his positive judgement of his work. Mentions that [François] Moigno could only say that it was anti-religious. Another work on statistics has emerged: Versuch einer Sozialethik, 2nd. vol., by Alexander von Ochingen. In few days leaves for international conference on statistics.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
[21 August 1869]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/TR65 (C: RS:HS 24.278 & RS Sa.676)
Summary:
Thanks for notice on first performance of Melbourne telescope and its contributions to knowledge about nature and role of nebulae. Comments on relationship of nebula and apparently associated stars. Looks forward to report on Magellanic Clouds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Warner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.89
Summary:
Requests permission to print JH's response approving of fixed-telescope system for time-keeping set out in TW's new book on civil time-keeping, How to Keep the Clock Right.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[1 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.276
Summary:
Encourages RP in his speculations about the nebulae and the structure of the Milky Way, which RP suggested is formed of a 'system of convolutions,' but raises objections to RP's views. Discusses idea that the Milky Way contains miniatures of itself and that beyond it may be a hierarchy of universes comparable to the Milky Way.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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- ?2
- Beddoe, John2
- Bentham, George2
- Blackwall, John1
- Bunce, Daniel1
- Cobbold, T. S.1
- Darwin, C. R.29
- Delpino, Federico2
- Elliot, Walter2
- Farrer, T. H.3
- Graham, Thomas1
- Gray, Asa1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Harcourt, William Vernon1
- Herschel, John15
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie1
- Hooker, J. D.5
- Hooker, Joseph2
- Liebig, Justus1
- Lloyd, M. C.1
- Lubbock, John3
- Miquel, Friedrich1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von8
- Mueller?, Ferdinand von2
- Norman, A. M.1
- Odgers, William1
- Proctor, Richard Anthony4
- Quadri, Achille1
- Quetelet, Adolphe3
- Radlkofer, Ludwig1
- Robinson, Thomas Romney2
- Rérolle, Louis1
- Smith, Frederick (a)1
- St Clair, George1
- Tait, W. C.2
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Thudichum, JLW1
- Times, the London1
- Tulk, Augustus1
- Veltmann, W[ilhelm]1
- Warner, Thomas1
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