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