From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 181: 80
Summary:
Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 309
Summary:
Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B56
Summary:
Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 June [1869]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a)
Summary:
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Kindt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1869-6
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.36
Summary:
Asks JH for copies of both Latin and English translations of Schiller's 'Walk'.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Haig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1869-6]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.158
Summary:
Thanks for his kind note and his tracts on Atoms and Forces. Thinks J. S. Mill's Logic is dangerous. Hopes he will read his book thoroughly and not be too critical of his astronomy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.407b (C: RI 565)
Summary:
In response to JH's comments on JT's explanation of comets says faintness of head and nucleus does not indicate non-existence; eye may not see all. Experiments with polarized light produce 'gorgeous' 'residual blue.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
1 June [1869]
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:
WCT should send specimens to Orpington Station.
Invites him to visit, but afraid conversation "would quite knock me up".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
June 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Stephen Paul Engleheart
Date:
2 June [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.398)
Summary:
Asks about orbicular muscles in eyes of women suffering in labour.
Inquires about treatment for dyspeptic weakness involving "Volta-Electric Chain bands".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Samuel Guppy
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 June 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 54-56
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
2 June 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 222–223)
Summary:
Thanks AR for his offer to send his observation notes, but since CD will not pursue the subject of variation under domestication, and his German is poor, he urges him to publish them in some periodical.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 71
Summary:
Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick J. O. Evans
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.132
Summary:
Will JH be able to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Board of Visitors? If not would he inform the Board of his intentions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
3 June [1869]
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL9.6)
Summary:
Declines invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Samuel Guppy
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 June 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 57-59
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[3 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.267
Summary:
Note to accompany the reported observations of JH's son John.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
4 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A30–1, A62
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in (new-born) lambs equal, but males more likely to die.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 June 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 385-6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick J. O. Evans
Date:
[4 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.133 & 24.265
Summary:
Unable to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Board of Visitors. Would like to resign from the Board as his enfeebled health will prevent him from attending future meetings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project