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Herschel10802

From:
Edward Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
17 March [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.157
Summary:

The paper JH sent relates to a sale of stock belonging to Willy (JH's son). Hopes he does not suffer from the return of winter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7139

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 7–8
Summary:

Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-03-17

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 March 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7140

From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 77
Summary:

Explains that law of inertia, and most of modern mechanics, is all wrong. Explains his concept of "elasticity" of bodies. Applies it to physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1198

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
17 March 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.180-184, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7137

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 81
Summary:

Describes the unusual appearance of a horse whose mother had previously borne a foal by a quagga. The effect of one mating on the subsequent pregnancy of another mating is explained by JJW using Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thinks JJW’s account [in 7137] is significant for a theory of generation and should go to some scientific society; suggests additional data is needed. Quotes cases of subsequent progeny apparently affected by a previous impregnation. Perhaps not prudent to allude to "despised" Pangenesis, which CD fully believes will have its day.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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