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From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.234
Summary:

Sends the mss. and two copies of the proof for JH to check. Queries one point. Please return papers to him when they have been checked.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.128
Summary:

Thanks JH for advice on planned chart; explains method of dealing with unguaged areas. RP has adopted a somewhat different method of charting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
1870-8-1 or earlier
Source of text:
JHS 5.44
Summary:

Talks about signatures needed for a fellowship certificate for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 168: 79
Summary:

CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 August 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.6.109a
Summary:

Some comments about the proposed title change [see GA's 1870-7-31].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 August 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.197.291
Summary:

Is preparing a catalogue of all double star observations, and is having much difficulty with the observations of J. H. Mädler.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.168, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120)
Summary:

Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Wallace, Alfred Russel & Wallace (née Mitten), Annie
To:
Ann Mitten (née Jordan) [Anne?]
Date:
3 August 1870
Source of text:
Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 313
Summary:

Thanks CD for compliments on the first part of his "discours",

but the later part was critical of natural selection. Nevertheless, CD should see him not as a systematic adversary, but in the camp of Quatrefages de Bréau and Milne-Edwards.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[4 August 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.43
Summary:

Discusses the signatures needed for a fellowship certificate for the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-8-1 or earlier]; comments on the arrival of son Alexander home from a holiday in Norway.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
5 [Aug 1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 209–10)
Summary:

MS of Descent, except last chapter, is ready to send to printer. Hopes the printer will be able to keep him steadily at work correcting proof. "It drives me mad to change from job to job."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 33
Summary:

Is glad John Lubbock made the fight he did [to amend Census Bill to enable insertion of questions on consanguineous marriages].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 377
Summary:

JM informs CD that he will have Clowes give him written assurance that the printing [of Descent] will proceed without interruption.

The [Franco-Prussian] War is a sad damper on international science and his publishing plans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Annie Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.133
Summary:

Wishes to take up a theatrical position at Aberdeen, and would be grateful for any financial assistance. Has already received £5 from the Queen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 64
Summary:

Plans to visit Down in a week.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mr. Dorrell; William Clowes & Sons
Date:
9 Aug 1870
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Sends instructions to Messrs Clowes concerning typesetting and printing of proof-sheets of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 238
Summary:

Sends last chapter of his book in press [Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family vol. 17 in Smithsonian contributions to knowledge (1871)], which supports CD on man.

Ethnology must study the ages of barbarism as the formative portions of man’s physical and mental history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 August 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 442
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
10 August 1870
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project