From:
Henry Denny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.491
Summary:
Thanks for his kind reply and transmittal of books. Has he ever written anything on volcanoes?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
22 March 1870
Source of text:
W70/2947, unit 463, VPRS 3991/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:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 9–10
Summary:
Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H. Temple Humphreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.79
Summary:
Many thanks for his kind note. Pleased to find he is in good health and taking an interest in the work of the youngsters. Hopes Alexander (JH's son) showed him his plan for a binocular reflector.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
23 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:
Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.
Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for Mr Ford’s woodcuts [for Descent]. Thanks AG for his kindness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1870-1]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Declines offer of book on physics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[25 March 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 82
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
25 March 1870
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
25 March 1870
Source of text:
V70/864, unit 695, VPRS 3991/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:
William Henry Flower
Date:
25 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections; DAR 270.1: 24
Summary:
Thanks WHF for his very good lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.232
Summary:
Encloses copy of R.S.L. statutes. G. G. Stokes cannot attend eclipse committee. Thanks for information about Mrs. Birtwhistle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.120
Summary:
Reports finding, while preparing a star atlas, that bright stars appear to be very dense in a region associated with the Milky Way but centered on the greater Magellanic Cloud. Because of a coming lecture on stellar distribution, 'I ... am saturating myself with Herschelian astronomy.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Carter, E. M. Bonham
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
27 March 1870
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 21
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 March 1870
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/201
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.154
Summary:
Sending the continuation of one of his own reports he submitted to the Academy. Comments on various meteorites and the results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
C[harles] De La Pryme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.486
Summary:
Is engaged in bringing out a diary of his ancestor. Would like JH's view on whether Isaac Newton's mind was ever deranged.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 186
Summary:
Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
28 March 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 428
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 March 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project