From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.249
Summary:
Proposals for new footpath at Slough near his property; would JH object?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
27 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Thanks AG for full answers to queries.
Delighted Mr Ford will undertake drawings [for Descent]; comments on some illustrations he would like.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
27 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 224–225)
Summary:
Thanks AR for specimens and notes. Will keep them for future edition [of Variation]. Particularly struck by difference in hardiness of varieties of Syringa persica.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. Charsley
Date:
[1869-9-27 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.249verso
Summary:
Reply to FC's 1869-9-27.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.57
Summary:
Is much obliged for the more correct determination of Mercury. As soon as he gets his new apparatus he will try to obtain observations of the planet.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Fowler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 September [1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.354
Summary:
Consider his note on empirical laws as unwritten as he intends introducing a paragraph on this subject. Gives a list of the contents of his book.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 32.i (EH 88206083)
Summary:
Reports on the differences of growth and development of plants of three species grown at Geneva from seed collected at different localities. Forwards seed for CD to plant and observe differences in development.
Carl Linsseer has published a memoir on the times of flowering, foliation, etc. of diverse species in different parts of Europe [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 no. 7 (1868)] and concludes that the northern forms are more forward and that this is hereditary. AdeC’s experiments carried out on annuals, show only the effects of heredity; probably the direct action of physical conditions affects development, at least in perennial species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 321
Summary:
Will do his best on the tooth [sent by CD] but does not put much weight on conclusions based on a single tooth of a horse.
Darwin attacked by three clergymen at BAAS meeting [Exeter, 1869].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 June 2001)
Summary:
He will send carrier to the Field office to collect pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
29 September 1869
Source of text:
T69/10638, unit 432, 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
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 53
Summary:
Thanks CD for assistance concerning sponge specimens. Mentions Englishmen who have sent specimens. J. S. Bowerbank has not answered requests.
Sends articles dealing with sponges and Medusae. Cites passages for CD to read. Suggests passages from Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren [1869].
Describes meeting with Sars and his trip to Norway.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 50
Summary:
On endemic flora and fauna of Portugal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
V. Masson et fils
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 64
Summary:
Asks CD to send 5th ed. of Origin so Mlle Royer can use it in her work. Regret they have upset CD to the extent that he would reproach them so untowardly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
V. Masson et fils
Date:
[after 29 Sept 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 61
Summary:
Is annoyed that a new French edition of Origin [1870] has been prepared without making use of the corrections CD made in the 5th English edition [1869].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 September 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project