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DCP-LETT-6901

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 273)
Summary:

James Orton, U. S. naturalist, has sent him a tooth from skull of a horse found in Quito, Ecuador in deposits containing Mastodon, etc. JO asked CD to send it to Owen, but, since he does not communicate with Owen, he is sending it to THH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6902

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 81
Summary:

Robert Fenn exhibited potatoes at the Horticultural Society which showed general failure of graft-hybrids and provided an example of reversion to a wild Peruvian tuber resulting from cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9374

From:
Robert L. J. Ellery
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.126
Summary:

Notification that a volume of the Melbourne Observatory papers has been dispatched.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10692

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[21 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.281
Summary:

Note to correct calculations in an earlier letter [see JH's 1869-9-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9612

From:
Thomas Fowler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
21 September [1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.353
Summary:

Hears that JH has agreed to look through the sheets of his book Inductive Logic. Is very pleased about this and would be grateful for any comments. Is intended as an elementary textbook.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6952

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6904

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 294
Summary:

Thanks CD for the English edition of his brother’s book [Fritz Müller, Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)]

and for CD’s memoir on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10694

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[22 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.56 & 24.282
Summary:

Burn his [last] letter as he made a blunder in his geometry. Cannot imagine how he made the blunder. Gives new formulae for observing Mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10693

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.55
Summary:

Unable to make any observations at the moment as his observatory is being enlarged to receive his new large telescope. Thinks it would be a good idea to carry out observations on Mercury. Is not sorry to be able to rest his eyes from his trying spectrum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5545

From:
William Hunter Campbell
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 September 1869
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC 204 folio 241
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6906

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 243
Summary:

Mr Ford is attending to CD’s drawings [for Descent].

Death of AG’s wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6905

From:
Adolf Reuter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 126
Summary:

Sends notes on variation in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4366

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[23 September 1869]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Writes of children's accomplishments. Discusses possible changes in nebula near Eta Argus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6908

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 34
Summary:

Time of his arrival.

Will bring bark story with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6910

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Is "astonished & deeply grieved" at loss [of AG’s wife].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6909

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 169
Summary:

Thanks for a paper on phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7225

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.409
Summary:

Regarding a correction to Francis Baily's epitaph. Health is improving slowly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2045

From:
Eliza Susan Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.288
Summary:

Describes celebration of [Alexander von] Humboldt's centennial in Boston. Sends photograph of total eclipse of sun, from Henry Morton, and various other articles. Praises science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6669

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[26 Sept 1869?]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Would have liked to come to lunch, but has been talking so much to Hooker that he has no strength left.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6911

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 27 Sept 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 82: B16–20; DAR 84.2: 168
Summary:

Replies to CD’s queries on sexual habits and differences in fish and lizards.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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