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DCP-LETT-5293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.

Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5294

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 114–17
Summary:

Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.

"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."

Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.

Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].

Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.

Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.

Balfour Stewart on sunspots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14184

From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0410; Reel 1087
Summary:

Supports G. W. Kitchin's request that JH write treatise on inductive logic for benefit of Oxford students.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.18 (C: RS:HS 24.178)
Summary:

Appreciates the receipt of volume one of the tenth edition of CL's Principles of Geology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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