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From:
Thomas Laycock
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 December 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 144-145
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 56
Summary:
Provides further detail on his smooth-leaved holly tree with a spiny-leaved branch; his gardener asserts no budding or grafting has taken place.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 105: 1–2
Summary:
Asks CD’s advice on procuring rabbits for experiments [to test Pangenesis by transfusing alien blood into does and breeding from them].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 214
Summary:
Sends seeds of Lathyrus and suggests an advantage of climbing plants is to shed their seeds in places secure from animals.
Contrary to F. Delpino, in JTM’s experience Ophrys aranifera is not sterile. However, seed germination is poor.
In a densely overgrown plot Convolvulus sabatius, not normally a twiner, becomes one.
Continues his extensive study on variability in Arbutus, and speculates on selection in fruit shape.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Pierce Butler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0132; Reel 1087
Summary:
JH and R. I. Murchison have agreed to be trustees [of Sinai survey; see PB's 1869-12-9]. Subscriptions to support survey. Sends description of expedition. Royal Geological Society unanimously approved survey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 46
Summary:
CD’s letter on his behalf made a great impression, but his candidacy nevertheless failed, largely owing to the hostility of Claude Bernard. CD’s opinion sustains his belief that his work will be a service to science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Andrew Murray
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13? December 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 146-147
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07)
Summary:
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Chapman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 December 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 148-149
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Setten
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.191
Summary:
Admiring 'working man' requests signature to be placed under JH's portrait as 'a remembrance of a great astronomer.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[15 December 1869]
Source of text:
London Times (Dec. 17, 1869), p. 7, col. 6
Summary:
Calls attention to sunspots then visible. [Written by JH under the pseudonym 'Helioscopus']
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Longman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 December 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 150-151
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
16 December 1869
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 December 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 170
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.40
Summary:
Sending a little volume of poetry written by his wife.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
18 Dec 1869
Source of text:
HS 16.380, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
18 Dec 1869
Source of text:
195, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.380
Summary:
Sends Christmas greetings to family. Still has her intellect and is staying busy. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for visiting Agnes [Greig].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 109: B125–6
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic and trimorphic plants; mentions especially Rubiaceae and a dimorphic monocotyledon.
Notes observations on the monstrous male flowers of Begonia,
and on self-sterile plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas A. Hirst
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.196
Summary:
Asks JH to sign a certificate for Fellowship of the R.S.L. of [William Stanley] Jevons.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project