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DCP-LETT-7519

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 390
Summary:

First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7520

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 206
Summary:

Thanks CD for Variation.

From his work on insect embryology he sees a great parallelism between insect and vertebrate embryology.

The zoological station is slowly advancing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7520A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[28 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 2 and 4
Summary:

Says Descent is "selling like Mad.––" Murray will print another 1500 or 2000 copies. Has received £630 for the 2500.

On Monday he visited Mivart, who is a charming man.

He seemed to be taken aback by CD’s points about the larynx and giraffe.

[See 7507 and 7519.]

He seemed to have forgotten CD’s argument regarding the formation of the greyhound.

Discussed the larynx and the silence of the Cetaceans.

If FD mentions any of this to [Marlborough Robert] Pryor, ask him not to mention it to anyone else "as it is perhaps rather a breach of confidence to repeat even to friends private conversation."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7521

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 210
Summary:

Suggests alteration in Descent [1st ed. 7th thousand] in citing pagination of George Busk’s paper "The caves of Gibraltar" [Trans. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archaeol. 3 (1868): 106–67].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7529

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 26–7
Summary:

Notes on Variation and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8198

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 65
Summary:

Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8205

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226
Summary:

Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31)
Summary:

Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9794F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
Lubbock family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for verses on Origin and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001162

From:
Charles Meldrum
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
10 February 1871
Source of text:
MM/17/27, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10522

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.399
Summary:

Forgot to call his attention to the column regarding the Julian period in the Nautical Almanac. Something strange about the neighborhood of R. Leporis. He has no doubt seen the table of Julian dates in the Connaissance des temps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10523

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.400
Summary:

Sends calculation of the Transits of Venus in 2004 and 2012. Cannot find any record of new double stars. Is in doubt about R. Leporis. Quotes an historical incident regarding an eclipse of the sun and the removal of Mahomet's pulpit. Did F. X. von Zach make his calculations himself?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10809

From:
John S. Harris
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.162
Summary:

Queries regarding the red glow seen during an eclipse of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10862

From:
H. E. Hubbard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.212
Summary:

Would like his views on the correct definition of a billion, to settle an argument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12166

From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.24
Summary:

His colleague, [G. R.] Waterhouse, has passed an inquiry from JH to NM regarding a mineralogical character. It is a specimen of Obsidian, very high in iron content.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4961

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[5 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.347 & 24.345
Summary:

Regarding patents, and quoting the results of experiments by foreigners without acknowledging the sources.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4962

From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.348
Summary:

Has notified J. C. Poggendorf of JH's notes on calorimeters. Discussion of Michael Faraday's indebtedness to JH's Prelim. Discourse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4963

From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.349
Summary:

Has received a letter from J. C. Poggendorf. Further reports on his experiments with gas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4964

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[22 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.346
Summary:

Thanks TA for information on ice calorimetric work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5832

From:
Alfred Brothers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.301
Summary:

Encloses photographs taken of the last eclipse. Draws his attention to certain aspects of the eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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