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FVM-69-12-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McKean
Date:
19 December 1869
Source of text:
X70/457, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel11073

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Richard Jones
Date:
[19 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.294
Summary:

Best wishes on Mrs. Jones's birthday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11153

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Samuel King
Date:
[20 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.41 & 24.295
Summary:

Many thanks for Mrs. King's volume of poetry. Comments on some of the poems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7030

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A106–6a
Summary:

Observations on expression and variation in Asian peoples: when colour of beard and hair differ, beard is always lighter. Differences in swimming strokes. Polydactylism.

Has just sent Hooker a paper on Sikkim tree-ferns [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 (1875): 1–44, read 1870].

Has had fever since the end of the rains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7031

From:
James Leask Sinclair
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 172
Summary:

Encloses memorandum for CD concerning JLS’s career and the development of his transformist views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6593

From:
T[heseus] A. Cheney
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.334
Summary:

Thanks for his kind letter regarding his book. Would be very grateful if JH would send him his photograph and autograph signature, also signatures of any famous Europeans for his album.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7032

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/8)
Summary:

Praises FG’s book [Hereditary genius (1869)]. CD is converted by its argument. Previously CD believed men did not differ much in intellect, but only in zeal and hard work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7033

From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: 85
Summary:

Has received letter from Appleton’s that they agree to reprint from the latest edition of the Origin [5th English] and will add corrections sent by CD.

They wish also to receive early sheets of new book [Descent] on which they will pay £10.

Will send cheque for sales of Origin, based on older agreement between Appleton’s and Asa Gray to pay CD 5%.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7034

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 105: 3–4
Summary:

Greatly pleased by approbation from CD, whom he admires and whose Origin did much for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-12-24a

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 December 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel5558

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Isaac L. Bell
Date:
[24 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.48 & 24.296
Summary:

Many thanks for the papers on the chemistry of the blast furnace. Remarks concerning this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7035

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
25 Dec 1869
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 696)
Summary:

Thanks AD for his work. CD regrets he is not a better German scholar, but he must endeavour to understand AD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2235

From:
Cajetan von Felder
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 December 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 152-153
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7036

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 35
Summary:

Has seen some natives who express surprise by clapping the hand to mouth.

Reports on a tribe that sells its ugliest slaves in order to maintain its uniformly fine appearance.

In America in 1867 Darwinism was a fait accompli. Asa Gray’s religious defence unnecessary after Theodore Parker and Emerson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12524

From:
R. C. Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.391
Summary:

More on the mathematical ratios of musical chords, and of dissonance [see JH's 1869-11-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7037

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 118
Summary:

Asks CD to which journal she should send her Lychnis paper and whether she may quote extracts from his letters to her.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7038

From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 204
Summary:

He has gone through the whole embryology of the Crustacea and has arrived at a pretty well-established genealogy of the whole class; has even tried to write a history of the whole tribe. Finds he cannot adopt the old separation of Orders in the Class; the limits between them are indistinct.

Would like to study embryology of Limulus. Asks CD’s help in obtaining a female specimen.

Outlines his proposal to establish a marine zoological station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7964

From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.231
Summary:

Thanks for news of Mrs. Birtwhistle. Hopes JH returns to good health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-69-12-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
31 December 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 417
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-12-31a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
31 December 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 415-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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