From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julie Laurence Levi
Date:
[17 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.476
Summary:
Sympathizes with Dr. C. T. Beke but regrets he is unable to contribute towards his assistance.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Russell
To:
George Cupples
Date:
18 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 56–7
Summary:
On the proportion of sexes in lambs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
19 June 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 26 June 1869, p. 861
Summary:
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[19 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.339 (C: RS:HS 24.270)
Summary:
Grieves to say that he will be unable to attend the meeting at the Royal Institution to honor Michael Faraday, as his health is so poor. Thinks Faraday was a great man in all ways.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Odoardo Beccari
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Slg Darmst. Afrika 1870
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 58–9
Summary:
On proportion of sexes in litters of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 389
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
August Petermann
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Julius Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 June [1869]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 19–20)
Summary:
Sends new edition of the Origin. Has made some corrections.
Has been led into dreadful blunder on p. 75 by erroneous calculations of a mathematical friend.
Opposes change of Entstehung into Ursprung [in title] even if more correct. It would make readers think it is a new book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A60–1
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in lambs, before castration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3972-3976
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 370
Summary:
RC has sent a copy of the new [5th] edition of Origin.
Electrotypes [of Orchids] have been sent to Bologna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 134–6
Summary:
The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
22 June [1869]
Source of text:
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4 o 333a. No 77, 3)
Summary:
Pleased that Julius Dub will publish with ES [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s (1870)].
Would like Gustav Jäger’s brochure [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1869)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 229
Summary:
Reports having seen a very human-looking monkey on exhibit. Gives a phrenological analysis of its skull.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 203–4)
Summary:
He told Giovanni Canestrini that stereotypes [for Variation] would cost £10.
Reminds RC of his suggestion that a copy [of Origin, 5th ed.] be sent to Scientific Opinion for review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 265
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Origin [5th ed.].
Clarifies his point on north and south glacial periods. Supports CD’s view that temperate plants will move up mountains during the alternation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B81–2
Summary:
Asks whether sexual selection could produce the changing plumules or "battledore" scales on the wings of certain butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B81-82
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 185
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 244-245]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project