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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 324
Summary:
"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".
Gives information about migration of male and female birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
2 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 272
Summary:
Thanks for [July 1869] issue of Quarterly Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 52
Summary:
Comments on 5th edition of the Origin [1869];
preparation of second edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1870].
The reception of CD’s theory. Mentions support of Pieter Harting and Michael Sars.
EH’s research on calcareous sponges and plans to publish monograph on them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 73
Summary:
Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A31, DAR 177: 119
Summary:
Observations on expression and colour of beard and hair in natives of India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
2 July [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for procuring eggs.
CD’s health has necessitated his leaving home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Oliver
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 67
Summary:
Information about sexes of sheep at time of castration. Mortality of male lambs higher than that of females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 100
Summary:
Observations on flies visiting Epipactis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: 10
Summary:
Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Graham
To:
George Cupples
Date:
6 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR A86: 68–9
Summary:
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle before eighteen months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
7 [July] 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 17 July 1869, p. 82
Summary:
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 130
Summary:
Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901)
Summary:
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence 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 Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.162, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Warner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1869-7-7 or earlier
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.91
Summary:
Please review TW's enclosed new book on civil time-keeping: How to Keep the Clock Right. [JH annotation: Answered 7 July.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 July 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 2
Summary:
WO very gratified by CD’s complimentary remarks on his Salvia article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 137–9
Summary:
Simeon Habel of New York has returned from Galapagos. CD has asked him to send any plants to JDH.
Reading Nägeli convinces him that it is all-important to learn all about polymorphic or protean genera for the "Laws of Variability".
New Zealand genera are interesting and have perplexed him for years.
Has read paper on snakes. Thinks it is not fascination but fear that makes the victim fall into snake’s power.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 69v
Summary:
Asks for a testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
