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From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 November? 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 141
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 156–8
Summary:
Congratulates JDH on his becoming a C.B.
Hard at work on sexual selection – weary of everlasting males and females, cocks and hens.
Has read J. H. Stirling vs Huxley on protoplasm [As regards protoplasm (1869)]
and E. B. Tylor on survival of old thoughts in modern civilisation.
Bentham’s Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [see 6793] is worth its weight in gold in making converts. C. J. F. Bunbury is impressed by it.
Likes JDH’s review of K. F. Schimper’s work [Paléontologie végétale, in Nature 1 (1869): 48].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
13 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Nature 1 (1869): 85
Summary:
Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.
Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 92
Summary:
Pleased to undertake publication of a new French translation of Origin based on the 5th English edition. J. J. Moulinié to be translator, with Carl Vogt reviewing his work. Will make arrangements to buy out the Royer edition [V. Masson et Fils; Guillaumin et Cie.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.117
Summary:
Thanks JH for suggestions concerning a star atlas RP was preparing. Informs JH of his progress in making that atlas.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.118
Summary:
Discusses his progress preparing star maps. Stresses that such maps can suggest theories of the arrangement of stars and nebulae. Mentions various papers and maps RP was then publishing
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 35—8
Summary:
Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.
Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, et al.) are agreed on Lyell.
Everyone is disappointed with Nature.
What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [Nature 1 (1869): 9–11]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
15 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 13–14)
Summary:
Makes suggestions for French translation of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.408 (C: RI 569)
Summary:
Is delighted with JH's exposition of colors of thin plates and of measurements of a wave of light in Familiar Lectures. Asks permission to quote from it.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 166
Summary:
Sends his translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
Wishes to translate 1858 essays by CD and Wallace from Linnean Society Proceedings [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
Plans journey to tropics.
Hopes to meet CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter le Neve Foster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.327
Summary:
Council of the Society of Arts has offered prizes. Would be pleased if JH would serve on the Committee to decide the prizewinners.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
186[9]-11-16
Source of text:
JHS 6.55
Summary:
Asks son John to stop at the British Museum and get the completion of a quotation JH needs; also asks John to pick up JH's R.S.P.T. copies not picked up recently.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
17 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
There is no hurry for information. Delighted that FCD is making experiments.
It was a sincere pleasure to make FCD’s acquaintance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Hugh Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 77–8
Summary:
Statistics on sexes of Lepidoptera reared this season. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 374
Summary:
JM reports sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin, Variation, and Origin [5th ed.].
Sends best wishes for success in putting down "Parisian blasphemers".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 45
Summary:
Asks CD to write a letter sponsoring him for the Chair of Comparative Physiology at Paris. There are some who do not think his work on artificial production of monstrosities belongs in physiology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
18 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenberg, Nr. 321, Brief von Charles Darwin)
Summary:
Thanks CGE for memoir on the Bacillariae of Mexico [Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys.) (1869): 1–66].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter le Neve Foster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.328
Summary:
Council of the Society of Arts has decided to form a committee to watch the interests of telegraphy. Invites JH to become a member.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
R. C. Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.389
Summary:
Inquires about the mathematical nature of the chords of music, offering some ideas of his own.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.176
Summary:
Will learn with regret that Feldhausen has had to be sold because R. J. Jones, the owner, was in debt. Outlines the alterations to the house and to the neighborhood now that the railroad has appeared. Has a tribe of grandchildren now.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project