From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Jäger
Date:
17 Feb 1870
Source of text:
Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)
Summary:
Encloses his letter to GJ [6885], which was returned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
17 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
Ralph Colp Jr (private collection)
Summary:
Comments on effects of prussic acid on different individuals of the same species and other physiological research by WP.
Provides information about his studies in Edinburgh and Cambridge and qualifications he had for Beagle voyage. Describes influence of R. E. Grant and J. S. Henslow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 33b
Summary:
Responds to note about the MS [Descent] with great interest and promises to obey his instructions. [See 7124.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
Isle of Wight Record Office (Ac 2008/79)
Summary:
Invites WDF to visit.
Describes activities of his children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 60
Summary:
Moritz Wagner is going to attack selection theory in his new book on his travels in America [Naturwissenschaftliche Reisen im tropischen Amerika (1870)].
K. G. Semper may attack CD’s theory of coral islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 164–6
Summary:
Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.
A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Garner
Date:
22 Feb [1870-1]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844 )
Summary:
Thanks for sending him a hybrid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
24 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:
Thanks JO for his The Andes and the Amazon.
Is sorry he has failed to get any information on the horse’s tooth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7:5 (EH 88205930)
Summary:
Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 166–7
Summary:
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb and 1 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 82: B80
Summary:
Forwards part of a note [by Mrs L. Agassiz] asking AG to tell CD that Agassiz has never been able to secure one of the fishes sitting on eggs.
In P.S., AG adds, "Agassiz evidently regrets having abused you in former times."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 146
Summary:
Transformism explains rudimentary organs, and teratology, which are otherwise inexplicable.
Looking forward to publication of Descent
and CD’s expected book on "Variation in nature" [see Variation 1: 4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 61
Summary:
Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.
The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[8 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373: 1–2)
Summary:
Sends MS [of chs. 3 and 4, "Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals", Descent] to HED for her criticism. CD fears parts are too much like a sermon; "who wd ever have thought I shd turn parson?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Robert Dunn
Date:
15 February 1870
Source of text:
MM/21/8, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Henry James
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.277
Summary:
Received his note on the Great Pyramid when travelling in Scotland. Quoted in his reply to C. P. Smyth. Encloses a note from F. D. Wackerbarth of Uppsala. Will be sending him the volumes containing the photographs of the Sinai survey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
E. S. Newall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.119
Summary:
JH's kind letter and enclosures came when she was ill, which accounts for the delay in replying. Is exceedingly grateful for all the autographs. Her brother-in-law [R. S. Newall] has erected a 25" telescope at Gateshead and doubtless would be pleased to show it to JH. Would be grateful for any photographs to go with the autograph collection.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hammond Chubb
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0128; Reel 1054
Summary:
Returns proofs with slight alterations. Encloses copy of letter JH sent to the Times on similar subject.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary [Cornwallis Lipscomb Power Herschel]
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0227; Reel 1054
Summary:
Thanks MH for copying reply from JH's son John to Col. Tennant's letter about 'ruinous' metric system. T. F. and Amelia [Herschel] Wade arrived in China. News of storms and shipping disasters. Denounces papal infallibility. Reviews Pierre Lanfrey's life of Napoleon. Tell JH's son John about changes in southern stars. Compares lectures of Chandra Kesub-den to sermons of John Wesley.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0137; Reel 1087
Summary:
Bank intends to publish letters and papers relating to 'Gold Coinage Controversy.' Does JH object to including JH's 'Half a dozen Propositions respecting the Gold Coinage'? [JH annotation: Answered 4 Feb; approved, and enclosed corrected copy.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Repository
- American Philosophical Society1
- Bernard Quaritch Ltd (dealers)1
- Cambridge University Library44
- Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)1
- Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)1
- Isle of Wight Record Office, Newport1
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers)1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Ralph Colp Jr (private collection)1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond2
- Royal Society1
- Swann Auction Galleries, Inc. (dealers)1
- The British Library1
- University of Oklahoma Library1
- FEWER