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Herschel2627

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.320
Summary:

Sends diagrams showing three new couplets of sunspots. The sun is entering a new phase of activity. Sends drawings made with a glass pen by his son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7790

From:
Thomas Francis Wade
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.6
Summary:

Received JH's note. TW's wife Amelia [Herschel] and baby fared poorly in Panama and California. China better now than in 1853-65. Constitution flimsy but still vital. Describes 'Mahometan insurrection.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2252

From:
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 June 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 183-184
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7236

From:
Joachim Barrande
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 44–5
Summary:

Encloses a copy of a letter he has written to a French geologist. In it he raises objections to evolutionary theory:

why are corals inadequately represented in the fossil record?

How can one explain the widespread appearance and then disappearance of groups like the trilobites?

If Mollusca and Articulata have a common ancestor, why are not ancient forms more akin than present ones?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7237

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 142–3
Summary:

Will send CD a deerhound puppy.

Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-06-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
20 June 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 437
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 June [1870]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269)
Summary:

Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
21 June 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on translation of FCD’s paper ["On the action of the eyelids", Arch. Med. 5 (1870): 20–38].

Speculates that closing eyelids may protect eyes from vibrations.

Discusses publication of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE607

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Annarella Smyth
Date:
21 Jun 1870
Source of text:
Somerville College Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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FVM-70-06-21d

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 June 1870
Source of text:
No. 1502, unit 20, pp. 240-1, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-06-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
22 June 1870
Source of text:
V70/6920, 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

DCP-LETT-7239

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 322
Summary:

Reports "shindy" at Oxford over persons proposed for doctorate. Pusey assented to CD’s being "doctored" to keep out seven worse devils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7240

From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 133
Summary:

Copies of the French translation of Orchids were sent to C. V. Naudin, Quatrefages de Bréau, and Charles Martins at CD’s request and to Duchartre, Brongniart, Baillon, Lecoq, Godron, and Alphonse de Candolle on Rérolle’s initiative.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7240F

From:
John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 168v
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-06-23b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
23 June 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 438
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
23 June [1870]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/24)
Summary:

Comments on new edition of EH’s book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, 2d ed. (1870)].

Mentions his own book [Descent].

Visit by Kölliker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7242

From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 193: 113–14
Summary:

Sends drawings of the foot of chicken showing swimming membrane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1535

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 June 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-70-06-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Albert Le Souef
Date:
24 June 1870
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.40, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7243

From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 19
Summary:

Publication Committee of Zoological Society has granted CD use of woodblock from the Society’s Proceedings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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