From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 10
Summary:
Asks for some money for his fees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
18 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
CD gets so many foolish letters from foolish people he has little heart to write to friends.
Gives Down news.
R. H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator, is a clever man.
CD has been much abused, praised, and chaffed by newspapers lately.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. Peter Lesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.472
Summary:
The Society will be happy to make JH's set of the Proceedings as complete as possible.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.396
Summary:
Sends photograph of a medal lately struck in Paris to commemorate the discovery of 100 asteroids, on which Hind appears.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B178, Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12)
Summary:
Describes experiments to test the fertility of Abutilon, which appears self-sterile,
and briefly mentions dichogamy in Eschscholzia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eliza Susan Quincy
Date:
[18 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.289 (C: RS:HS 24.286)
Summary:
Thanks EQ for report of [Alexander von] Humboldt's centenary and the photographs from Henry Morton [see EQ's 1869-9-26]. Discusses neglect of James Grahame's work in England.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick W. Holland
Date:
[18 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.427 & 24.287
Summary:
Takes it that the expense of the Sinai Expedition so far carried out has been met from the funds. Sees no objections to a continuation of the expedition.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project