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DCP-LETT-7246

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 293
Summary:

Tells of his health and family matters.

Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.

Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7247

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 82
Summary:

On behaviour of birds when frightened and when threatening.

Purple Cytisus grafted onto yellow stock produces some yellow flowers.

Mutations in rabbits.

Cites case of variegated leaf form of one plant apparently spreading to a neighbour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7248

From:
William Robson Scott
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 124
Summary:

Speculates on the origin of gestures representing good and bad or approval and disapproval;

discusses signs used in teaching the deaf and dumb, particularly the use of opposites [see 7244].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7249

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: B160–1
Summary:

[William Rathbone] Greg is author [of "Failure of ""natural selection"" in the case of man", Fraser’s Magazine 78 (1868): 353–62].

Comments on findings in J. M. Duncan [Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics (1866)].

Saw A. D. Bartlett about monkeys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/11)
Summary:

Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 173
Summary:

Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7252

From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 229
Summary:

Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
29 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 327
Summary:

On birds erecting feathers.

Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.

Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7254

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 65
Summary:

Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7255

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Winwood Reade
Date:
30 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 79–80
Summary:

Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7256

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
30 June [1870]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.

In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".

Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE606

From:
Annarella Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
9 Jun 1870
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 68, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE607

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Annarella Smyth
Date:
21 Jun 1870
Source of text:
Somerville College Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10348

From:
Henry Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.231
Summary:

Cannot give a definite answer regarding liability on the Dock stock without knowing the Act of Parliament under which the East India Company was incorporated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10803

From:
Edward Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
29 June [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.158
Summary:

Has been intending to write to inform him of the successful meeting on Friday, but the four day holiday has caused extra work. JH's consent to preside provided extra stimulus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11547

From:
John Knox Laughton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.464
Summary:

Sending JL's book Physical Geography (1870).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2625

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.509
Summary:

Discusses the different strata of the ocean and [William] Carpenter's lecture on deep sea dredging. Is digging an artesian well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2626

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.510
Summary:

Sends two copies of JH's 'macular conspectus.' Mr. Titterton was very pleased that JH approved of his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2627

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.320
Summary:

Sends diagrams showing three new couplets of sunspots. The sun is entering a new phase of activity. Sends drawings made with a glass pen by his son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2628

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.511
Summary:

Thanks JH for the drawings. Will send new solar autographs showing macula. Is working on the autographic series of the activity of the sun during its 11 year period.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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