From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mr. Dorrell
Date:
11 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
Jonathan Haile (private collection)
Summary:
He will not be ready to begin correcting proofs until 28 or 29 August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
11 August 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 445
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Jacob Agardh
Date:
11 August 1870
Source of text:
Handskr. Avdl., Universitetsbibliotek, Lund, Sweden
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
11 August 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 443
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
11 August 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 444
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Lindberg
Date:
11 August 1870
Source of text:
Sign. 630.1.1. 4, (1 868- 1 881), Arkivet, Svenska Literatursällskapet i Finland, Universitetsbibliotek, Helsingfors, Finland
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
11 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:
Thanks LHM for concluding chapter [to Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family (1871)]. Agrees that it is important to study the habits and institutions of savages.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Government of India
Date:
11 August 1870
Source of text:
MM/10/84, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 August 1870
Source of text:
No. 2109, p. 11, unit 21, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 65
Summary:
Wishes to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
W. Paterson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.244
Summary:
Is working on what he hopes will be the true theory of the earth, but would like advice from an astronomer on one point. Believes JH has been asked this question before, according to Charles Lyell.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Lawford Acland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: A7
Summary:
Is studying Variation, especially Pangenesis. Reports earlier notion of Dr Robert Lee, that resemblance between husband and wife may be partly owing to her having man’s blood circulating in her during pregnancies; thus spouses most resemble each other in large families.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
18 Aug 1870
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 60–61)
Summary:
Has just sent MS of Descent to printers. Recognises that [because of Franco-Prussian War] the publisher will have given up idea of a German translation.
Though the war is a misfortune for science, CD rejoices at the wonderful success of Germany; has met no one who does not share this feeling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
18 Aug 1870
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 16–17)
Summary:
Under present circumstances [Franco-Prussian War] gives up French translation of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[18 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.325
Summary:
Comments about some pieces of German poetry.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[18 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.326
Summary:
Requests that WH sign the certificate for the election of JH's son John as a Fellow of the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.169, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
20 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:
CD writes for Emma, who is ill.
Delighted with FPC’s "most just" article [in Echo?]. Sends £1 subscription.
Thanks for telling CD about the Fraser’s Magazine article [F. W. Farrar, "Hereditary genius (by F. Galton)", n.s. 2 (1870): 251–65].
CD wrote as Justice of Peace for Kent to the Home Secretary about Holder’s case.
Tropaeolum transmits every shade of colour if self-fertilised for six or seven generations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[21 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.327
Summary:
Apologizes for forgetting that since WH is on the Council of the R.S.L. he is precluded from signing [see JH's 1870-8-18].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Annie Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.134
Summary:
Is grateful for JH's assistance. Is now residing in Aberdeen but still in financial difficulties so would be pleased with any assistance.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project