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Herschel3150

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[15 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS RR.6.14
Summary:

Reports on paper [R.S.P.T., 159,. 575-] by [Thomas] Andrews on continuity of gaseous and liquid states of matter, believing it fit for publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6829

From:
Alexander Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A98
Summary:

Gives information on the proportions of sexes of certain moths. [See Descent 1: 313.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6830

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 320
Summary:

Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.

Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".

Family health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6831

From:
Allan Cunningham Pagan
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: B54–5
Summary:

Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6834

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 123
Summary:

On the genealogy of the horse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-07-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6834A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
17 July [1869]
Source of text:
E. C. Hodgkin (private collection)
Summary:

Ernst Haeckel is working on calcareous sponges. Does AH have any British specimens that he can spare? [See 6842.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6832

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 22–4
Summary:

On reading F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].

Pangenesis.

Agrees with CD on fascination [of snakes].

Huxley is at Comte again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
17 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Summary:

Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.

Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
18 July [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29)
Summary:

Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].

Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.

The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.

Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6836

From:
Adolf Reuter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 125
Summary:

Sends notes on lack of variation in seedlings of trees and shrubs

and on climbers changing their character with age.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1460

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[18 July 1869]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H724
Summary:

Note to accompany an extract from JH's son John's letter, reporting on his observations of solar prominences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6836A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
19 July [1869]
Source of text:
Phillips, Son and Neale (dealers) (24 October 1985)
Summary:

Admits that he had disobeyed his instructions and dispatched a box of bones to him by rail. Gives an account of the discovery of the bones at Perth y Chwaril on the Rhagatt estate. He has promised Miss Lloyd to obtain from WBD the English names of the principal bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6836F

From:
Edward Lacy Garbett
To:
Athenæum
Date:
19 July 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 24 July 1869, p. 115
Summary:

More on the problem of the increase of elephants (see 6806f and 6820).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1461

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.75
Summary:

Extended comments on John Herschel's [JH's son] observations of the spectrum of the solar corona.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6838

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 74
Summary:

Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6838F

From:
James Rait
To:
George Cupples
Date:
20 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 70–1
Summary:

Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6837

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 81
Summary:

Sends C. M. Browne’s notes on transmission of colour in greyhounds [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 40]

and a letter from Major Holland.

WBT to visit America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-07-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Grant
Date:
21 July 1869
Source of text:
U69/6467, unit 403, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
21 July [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Further queries on poultry plumage.

WBT’s visit to America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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