From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 323, 323/1
Summary:
Comments on various figures [in Duchenne’s Mécanisme].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.322 (C: RGO 6.382.355)
Summary:
Regarding Alexander Herschel's paper on acoustical oscillations recently sent to G. A. Erman.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquess of Salisbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 8
Summary:
Informs CD that Oxford proposes to confer an honorary degree upon him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[7 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.317 (C: RI 571)
Summary:
Thanks for work on diamagnetism and magne-crystallic action [Researches on Diamagnetism (1870)], which JH is excited to read. Mentions long-abandoned plans for magnetization experiments. Envies those who can see JT's 'magic' experiments at Royal Institution.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 332
Summary:
Duchenne [Mécanisme] has arrived. Has been testing the photographs with 20 or 30 persons; when all or nearly all agree with Duchenne, CD trusts him. Not one understood the "contracted pyramidal of the nose". CD does not think the so-called muscle of lasciviousness worth exhibiting.
His MS [of Descent] is so large he may print only what he has, and make a second volume of what he is now writing on expression.
Discusses photographs he would like to have: baby screaming, person in paroxysm of fear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Annarella Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
9 Jun 1870
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 68, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr, 2d baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 315
Summary:
Hears CD may come to Oxford at Commencement to receive an honorary degree. Invites CD, his wife, and daughter to stay at his house. [CD declined Hon. D.C.L. on grounds of ill health.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 June 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.409 (C: RI 572)
Summary:
Gratified by JH's 'sympathy and approbation,' and that JH's writing and spirit remain 'firm' and 'fresh.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Wedgwood, S. E.
To:
Allen, Fanny
Date:
9 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 June 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 182
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
10 June 1870
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, foreign members and associates 1865-71
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 375
Summary:
Asks CD whether he is far enough along with his new work [Descent] to allow him to announce it as a forthcoming publication in his next quarterly list.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
11 June 1870
Source of text:
W70/6491, unit 466, 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:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 188
Summary:
Asks by what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes
and how the beauty of bivalves could have been produced by natural or sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.509
Summary:
Discusses the different strata of the ocean and [William] Carpenter's lecture on deep sea dredging. Is digging an artesian well.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
C. Grevsmühl
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M106.20, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
W70/6575, unit 468, 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
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
W70/6492, unit 466, 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:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 144
Summary:
Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.
Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
