From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
South Eastern Railway
Date:
[c. Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 49
Summary:
Wishes correspondent to investigate immediately the loss of two boxes in transit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 89–90
Summary:
Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.
Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.
Huxley’s want of judgment.
JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.
Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1868 – Aug 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B73
Summary:
Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1 September 1868]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #52
Summary:
Sends back excellent translation of his review with minor corrections. Mentions 'fine display of meteors with long trains' on 10 August. Gives news of his son Lieutenant John Herschel's observations. Acknowledges works received.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[1 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.226
Summary:
Given up idea of translating Dante; comments on meteor shower report; suggests EC write an ode on poverty.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project