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Herschel2611

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.505
Summary:

Has been translating into Latin 'your Dean's "Kentish Fire."' Has good Latin versions of [Oliver Goldsmith's] 'Edwin and Angelina' by Lord Stratford de Recliffe and of [Thomas] Gray's 'Elegy' by 'Chief Justice [Henry Thomas?] Cockburn.' Sends his 'Genevieve.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6941

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 58
Summary:

Sends notes on observations of Passiflora and Tacsonia; Hooker thinks they would be worth reading at Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6963

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
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DCP-LETT-6942

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

Herschel11555

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

Herschel10519

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

DCP-LETT-6943

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
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Herschel2046

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

Herschel10550

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

DCP-LETT-6944

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 124
Summary:

Reports on his findings in Denbighshire caves ["The Denbighshire caves", Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc. 9 (1869–70): 31–7].

Sends his paper ["On the prae-historic Mammalia in Great Britain", Intellect. Obs. (1868): 403–10].

Has changed his view on the descent of British cattle from the wild aurochs. No evidence that aurochs survived into historic times in Britain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Scientific Opinion
Date:
[before 20 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426.
Summary:

Replies to F. Delpino’s criticisms of Pangenesis [Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8], especially concerning the difficulty of explaining the regrowth of amputated organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7227

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.410
Summary:

Regarding a mistake in his old address. Hopes U. J. J. Leverrier will arrive safely after all. Cold weather is bracing him up.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6947

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 72
Summary:

Koch [of Schweizerbart’s, publisher of German translations of CD’s works] has inquired when CD’s new book on man will be out. JVC assures CD that the book should be translated into German, and offers his services.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6945

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
20 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/10)
Summary:

Comments on notes made by THF on Passiflora and Tacsonia. Suggests he examine more species. Recalls his own observations on P. princeps and Tacsonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6946

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 171
Summary:

Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.

Returns to U. S. on 9 November.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6948

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 167: 26
Summary:

Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.

Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6950

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 273
Summary:

Wishes to translate CD’s forthcoming work on man into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3009

From:
Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
20 October 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 60-61
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6949

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B86–7
Summary:

Looks forward to Descent, though he expects to find more to differ with than in any other of CD’s books.

Problems of usefulness of incipient organs and of the independent origin of similar complex organs are real difficulties.

Plans a little book on "Distribution of animals".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1924

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 October 1869
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B86-87
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 188
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 246-247]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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