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DCP-LETT-7307

From:
William Johnson Raybould
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
22 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 25
Summary:

Offers a polydactylous cat to the Zoological Gardens. [Offer declined and letter forwarded to CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
23 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382)
Summary:

Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.

Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.

Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.

"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7309

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George F. Kittredge
Date:
24 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks GFK for offer of information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1536

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP2257

From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 August 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 191
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6277

From:
Emily Alston Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.38
Summary:

Relating the dire condition of Dr. C. T. Beke and requesting financial assistance from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-70-08-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
25 August 1870
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel10650

From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.24
Summary:

Intends bringing the subject of sunspots before the B.A.A.S. next September and would therefore like JH's views on whether in his opinion these spots are mechanical or magnetic. Also any other comments would be welcome.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-70-08-26c

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 August 1870
Source of text:
No. 2264, pp. 180-1, unit 21, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of a number of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
28 Aug 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 33)
Summary:

Mimicry in Lepidoptera.

Sexual selection.

The Franco-Prussian war.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5044

From:
F. Austen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.423
Summary:

Sends extract from Eduard Fournier's Le Vieux-Neuf.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-70-08-29a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Birch
Date:
29 August 1870
Source of text:
Item IC 846928 74/1714, Queensland State Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel11922

From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.284
Summary:

Asks JH if he wants to make any changes in his article on meteorology for a new edition of the Admiralty Manual.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8528

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[29 August 1870]
Source of text:
Adler Ms. 13 (C: RS:HS 24.328)
Summary:

Comments on remarkable solar activity. JH admits he has no theory to explain sunspots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
30 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.383)
Summary:

Encloses, for publication, note about Pampas woodpecker, opposing W. H. Hudson [see 7354].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10273

From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.156
Summary:

Regrets the delay in sending his paper on Homeric irons, but he has been suffering from ill health. Comments on JH's translation of one of Homer's stanzas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2629

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[31 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.329
Summary:

Discusses the movement of the 'great group' of sunspots over the last six months. Asks WS to sign a certificate for his son [John].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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