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DCP-LETT-2673

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[26 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 119)
Summary:

Has arranged with Baily the poulterer for pigeons for THH to exhibit at Royal Institution lecture.

E. A. Darwin will subscribe to H. Spencer’s book [First principles: a system of philosophy (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1677

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mrs Buxton
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13c/1185, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel10589

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.467
Summary:

Has just returned from town and found JH's letter in Greenwood's volumes. Looks forward with pleasure to perusing the volumes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0296

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel11419

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.330
Summary:

Has experienced an extraordinary meteorological year and been kept busy observing all the changes. Is to submit another certificate to the R.S.L. and would be pleased if JH would sign it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-60-01-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick McCoy
Date:
27 January 1860
Source of text:
RB MSS M35, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1398

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.41
Summary:

Referring to some experiments in sound, GS proceeds to provide the theoretical basis for them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2664B

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1860
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41913 p. 78)
Summary:

Presents statement of expenses and anticipated profit of the new edition of 3000 copies [of Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10145

From:
Thomas Greenwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.32
Summary:

Was pleased to see JH's writing once more. Is still active though not quite so energetic as in previous times. Has had appreciative letters about his books, though the general public ignores them. Comments on the papacy. Has two more books ready for the press.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-544

From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 January 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 146 & 146(ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2665A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Date:
28 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00521)
Summary:

The pamphlet on the origin or variation of species sent by IGS-H has not arrived. CD is eager to see it and requests precise reference. ["Cours de zoologie (mammifères et oiseaux), fait au Muséum d’histoire naturelle, en 1850", Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée 2d ser. 3: 12–20.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2665

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43)
Summary:

If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.

Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6835

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.145
Summary:

Sending Robert Main's certificate for JH's signature.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Griffin
Date:
29 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 28509: 408)
Summary:

Returns MS [of biography for Dictionary of contemporary biography (1861)]. Part was inaccurate, and there was an important omission so CD has had a new copy made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2666F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
29 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (8 December 2021, lot 119)
Summary:

Measles has ben running through the house, but they are now quit of it.

Discusses plans for JSH to visit; eager to discuss Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.96–97)
Summary:

Had forgotten that Journal [of researches] was stereotyped. Not worth while now to improve style. Wants to make a few corrections, if possible, on p. 378.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-01-29

From:
Robert Bowman
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 January 1860
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee rercords, box 2076/2, La Trobe Australian Manuscript Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
29 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.194)
Summary:

Orders copy of book by Louis Agassiz [Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis (1846)].

Mentions book sent by Quatrefages de Bréau.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2669

From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26
Summary:

On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-01-30

From:
Joseph Jobson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 January 1860
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2076/4, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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