From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B39
Summary:
John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.
Hopes CD will visit again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 149
Summary:
Praises CD’s theory.
Comments on criticism of CD’s work by Duke of Argyll.
Beauty in nature as caused by sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 247
Summary:
Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1865-11-20 or earli
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.126
Summary:
Requests JH sign certificate to R.S.L. attesting to Indian historian J. W. Kaye. Recalls 1861 visit with JH at Greenwich Observatory. Hopes JH's sons are doing well in India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Isaac Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.273
Summary:
Is engaged drawing up a memoir of the late Admiral W. H. Smyth for the R.A.S. Would be glad of any of JH's observations on his work as an astronomer and as a member of the Board of Visitors of Greenwich.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gilbert Baker
Date:
20 November 1865
Source of text:
BAK/1 f.41, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
20 November 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/79
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project