From:
Charles Voysey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 180: 16
Summary:
Acclimatisation of potatoes by selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dudley Campbell
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.5509:92)
Summary:
Sends cheque for £5 as subscription to Westminster Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Merle Norman
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:
Asks whether AMN has any specimens of British calcareous sponges that CD could forward to Haeckel, who is studying them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 131
Summary:
Progressing with translation of new footnotes for Orchids. Asks for help with a few words.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A72–3
Summary:
Mating practice of Carcinus maenas [see Descent 1: 331].
Difference in size in sexes of Crustacea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1869
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 847)
Summary:
Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
14 July [1869]
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009)
Summary:
Knows Dawkins interested in cave animals; has just heard from a Lloyd of Rhaggatt that a fissure has opened full of bones and teeth. Will send some.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Charlotte Lloyd
Date:
[24 July 1869]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 383)
Summary:
Forwards letter from W. B. Dawkins. The bones, though not themselves interesting, may indicate the work of prehistoric man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
11 July 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/218, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
30 Jul 1869
Source of text:
HS 24.275, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
William Stanley Jevons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.327
Summary:
Was very happy to receive JH's remarks on his little logical work. Comments on this work. Is not satisfied with the logic of J. S. Mill. Has not seen [James] Haig's work yet, but hopes to read it on return from the Continent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.37
Summary:
Thanks JH for his letter and package of his writings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Cranmer Penrose
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.336
Summary:
A note to accompany a paper by FP on the prediction of occultations and eclipses.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[14 July 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0531; Reel 1053
Summary:
Glad for Mary's recovery. Congratulations on John's promotion to captain. Suggests method to study solar prominences without spectroscope. [Letter continues 15 June:] Alexander Herschel reports that G. B. Airy tried this method unsuccessfully long ago, but JH is sure it will work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Warner
Date:
[7 July 1869]
Source of text:
'Preface to Improved Edition' of Thomas Warner, How To Keep the Clock Right (187
Summary:
Received TW's book and approves simplicity and economy of its method of keeping time by using small fixed telescope to reduce star observations. Disapproves of using 'Dominical Letters.' Suggests using Julian dates.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[18 July 1869]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H724
Summary:
Note to accompany an extract from JH's son John's letter, reporting on his observations of solar prominences.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.75
Summary:
Extended comments on John Herschel's [JH's son] observations of the spectrum of the solar corona.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[30 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24:275
Summary:
Attached comments [not included] convey JH's views on MS's new manuscript [On Molecular and Microscopical Science, 1869]. Expresses reservations about MS's endorsement of current ideas of forces and their correlation and conservation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[15 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS RR.6.14
Summary:
Reports on paper [R.S.P.T., 159,. 575-] by [Thomas] Andrews on continuity of gaseous and liquid states of matter, believing it fit for publication.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[1 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.273
Summary:
About AD's health and the cold summer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project