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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[summer 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 90
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 June 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 181
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Chichester
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 June 1870
Source of text:
GO 52/11 outward letter book 1857-86, Governor's Office, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
1 June [1870]
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks FD for seeds of Canna.
Still thinks it would be worth FD’s while looking at the fertilisation of Lotus; does not think Frank Darwin has exaggerated the novelty of the contrivance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
1 June 1870
Source of text:
W70/5916, unit 465, 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:
1 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 19–20
Summary:
Thanks CD for his help and encouragement in his series of experiments [to test Pangenesis].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
1 June [1870]
Source of text:
Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958)
Summary:
Thanks AS for his kindness towards himself and his family. Looks back with great satisfaction to his last visit ("as it will probably prove") to Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[1 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.316
Summary:
Continues to explain matters in perturbation theory. Stresses need for careful observations in solar eclipses. Doubts the existence of the hypothetical intermercurial planet Vulcan.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Thomas Higinbotham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 June 1870
Source of text:
No 452/70, unit 16, p. 694, VPRS 431, outward registered correspondence, Engineer in Chief, VA 2877, Department of Railways, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
William Wilson
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
June 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 185-186
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 [June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 174
Summary:
Returns H. C. Watson’s letter.
CD must study JDH’s manner of arrangement of varieties and subspecies, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.126
Summary:
Admits his misstatement in RP's Other Worlds than Ours concerning perturbation of outer planets. Shares JH's doubts about existence of Vulcan. Speculates on the extent of meteoric material in the solar system. Comments negatively on J. Norman Lockyer's views on meteors.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
3 June [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks FCD for information.
Hopes that translation of his paper will appear in Dublin Journal.
Notes experience of his son [Leonard Darwin] on engorgement of eyes with blood. Discusses secretion of tears when eye muscles are involuntarily contracted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Boyle
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
Private hands.Published in Pretlove (2012), p. 74
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
4 June [1870]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38)
Summary:
Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Theodosius Purland
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/39
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/39
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 254-255]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 38
Summary:
The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.
Believes the Jollops select for blackness.
Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.
Has found stone instruments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 June [1870]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 204-205
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 252]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 64
Summary:
Has sent F. Müller "a long screed" about the Passiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: C68; DAR 161: 311
Summary:
Returns copy of Duchenne (found in cupboard) with notes [see 7221].
Sends photograph of woman patient with hair standing on end.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project