From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 5–6
Summary:
Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91)
Summary:
The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".
Cat-like behaviour in dogs.
Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;
wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 92
Summary:
CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
R. F. Albrecht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 33
Summary:
Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.
Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Edward Newman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 March 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Samuelson
Date:
[16 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.340
Summary:
Cannot address Earl de Grey [G. F. S. Robinson] concerning members of Royal Commission without a request from the Earl. Cannot, therefore, write on behalf of JS [see JS's 1870-3-8].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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
Text Online
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
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
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
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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
R. F. Albrecht
Date:
18 Mar 1870
Source of text:
University Archives (dealers) (17 August 2022, lot 526)
Summary:
Thinks the German publisher would not object to publishing quotations from CD’s works, unless it was a whole chapter.
Fears the development of bird wings will prove a very difficult subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
18 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 143: 330
Summary:
JC-B’s essays are the fullest CD has received. His observations on blushing closely agree with James Paget’s. Platysma and horror: Duchenne’s statement doubtful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Du Cane
Date:
18 March 1870
Source of text:
GO 39/8, Miscellaneous correspondence, Governor's Office, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[19 March 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 80
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
20 March 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 425-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Hampden
Date:
20 March 1870
Source of text:
Hampden, J. (1870). In: Is Water Level or Convex After All? The Bedford Canal Swindle Detected & Exposed, Etc . Swindon: Alfred Bull. [pp. 16-17]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 March 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 162-163
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project