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DCP-LETT-5820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 43
Summary:

Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.

Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.

Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5821

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 172
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5822

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 290
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5823

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5824

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 68
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge

and CD’s world-wide reputation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5853

From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 195
Summary:

Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
6 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 77
Summary:

Asks about expression of emotion among Negroes and American Indians in Nicaragua. Queries enclosed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7040

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868–70?]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 164–5
Summary:

Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000933

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
unknown
Date:
3 January 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/208, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000934

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
11 January 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/209, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE480

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
27 Jan 1868
Source of text:
19, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE481

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
21, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10656

From:
Henry Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.29
Summary:

Makes no claim to originality for his experiments; thinks highly of Dr. W. C. Wells but would like to know whether [Pierre] Prévost's theory is tenable.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11151

From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.39
Summary:

Did not contemplate gratuitous contributions from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2042

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eliza Susan Quincy
Date:
[13 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.285 (C: RS:HS 24.5)
Summary:

Received memoirs of [Josiah] Quincy. Has not had time to peruse the work in its entirety. Thanks EQ for the book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4161

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[25 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.160
Summary:

Points out that [Joel?] Spiller's article, 'Hyposulphite of Ammonia for fixing,' is 'copied verbatim' from a work of JH's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6711

From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1868 or 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.28
Summary:

Printed prospectus for volume of poems on Natural History and Physical Science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6809

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.126
Summary:

Is grateful for his prompt reply about his father's papers on double-stars. Had no idea that Angelo Secchi's Means were so inaccurate. Gives the principle on which his own Means are based. The weather has been wretched and most unsuitable for any observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8005

From:
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.272
Summary:

Needs some information about the astronomical sweeps carried out by JH's father, William. FW comments about the location and shape of some nebulae, and what seem to be differences with other catalogues.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8847

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[12 January 1868]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/44
Summary:

Asks WT whether WT made a certain claim about the spectrum of strontium. Recounts observations of the strontium spectrum made by JH in 1822.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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