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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
10 January 1860
Source of text:
Mrs Raven Frankland
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 January 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 145
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 98)
Summary:

On the problem of want of sterility in crosses of domestic varieties. Refers to discussion in Origin, pp. 267–72 ["Fertility of varieties when crossed"]. We do not know precise cause of sterility in species.

Andrew Murray has attacked Origin [see 2647].

H. C. Watson objects to natural selection on grounds of limitless diversification of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Isaac Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.272
Summary:

Regrets the delay in answering JH's letter but he has been abroad. Will supply any details if not too late for his purpose. The mounting of his large telescope is peculiar and is similar to that used by Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 January 1860
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
12 January 1860
Source of text:
N60/878, unit 748, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Date:
12 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (63 J Fonds Gabriel Bertrand)
Summary:

Very pleased with IGStH’s approval [of Origin]. Will be proud to place IGStH’s Résumé des lecons sur la question de l’espèce (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1851) alongside his other works in his library.

Grateful for his offer to look over the difficult passages in Origin for a translator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 January 1860
Source of text:
No. 916, unit 5, p. 241, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
12 January [1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.290
Summary:

Has interpreted the word 'honorary' quite correctly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
12 January [1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.484 (C: 23.294)
Summary:

[Responding to HS's 1859-12-31,] JH presents additional problems in the nebular hypothesis, critiques in detail HS's views of the distribution of cometary orbits, and argues against HS's theory of sunspot formation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
William Hooker and others
To:
the Royal Society, London
Date:
12 January 1860
Source of text:
Royal Society, London, Certificates of candidature and election, vol. 10, (1861-80), no. 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
13 January 1860
Source of text:
No. 422, vol. 1860 O, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Henry Barkly
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 January 1860
Source of text:
No. 74, unit 2, p. 94, VPRS 1092 Governor's letter books, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria.For a copy of this letter see Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, 1860, p. lv
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[14–19 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 21 January 1860, p. 49
Summary:

Hopes readers will send information on the permanence of cross-bred plants and animals. No one doubts that cross-bred productions tend to revert in various degrees to either parent for many generations. But are there not cases of crossed breeds of sheep and pigs that breed true? CD believes occasional cross-breeding of varieties is advantageous in nature as well as under domestication. [See reply to this letter by J. O. Westwood, Gard. Chron. (1860): 122.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 36
Summary:

CD has learned from Lyell that JDH reviewed Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle writing in Lindley’s style.

Lyell is working on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ladd & Carr
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 January 1860
Source of text:
N60/576, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.192)
Summary:

Review of Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle [31 Dec 1859].

Criticises views of J. G. Jeffreys on non-migration of shells. Cites case of Galapagos shells.

Mentions Edward Forbes’s theory of submerged continental extensions. Cites Hooker’s [introductory] essay [in Flora Tasmaniae (1860)] for evidence against any recent connection between Australia and New Zealand.

Discusses Huxley’s views of hybrid sterility.

Questions whether Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire believed in species change. Mentions views of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

The distribution of cave insects.

CD’s study of man.

The problems of locating French and German translators.

Huxley’s criticism of Owen’s views on human classification.

The sale of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.315
Summary:

Is grateful for being allowed to dedicate his book to JH; also for his information on harmonics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.368
Summary:

Miniature of William Herschel's portrait was lost and recovered. At same sale where RW bought WH's portrait, was sold 7-foot reflector, inside which were several papers in WH's handwriting. New owner would not accept £40. Does JH advise offering more?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

P. T. A. Talandier wants to translate Origin into French. Talandier gave Louis Blanc as a referee. Could Mrs Cresy, who knows Blanc, find out what he thinks of Talandier?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project