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DCP-LETT-7323

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 57–9
Summary:

Reports on the 1870 BAAS meeting at Liverpool. Huxley’s address was over the heads of the laymen.

Tyndall’s was eloquent to listen to, disappointing to read.

George Rolleston’s "Rococo" address [Nature 2 (1870): 423–7, 442–6].

Murchison.

Lyell.

Has done an immense lot of work.

Regrets CD has not kept the simple title "Origin of man" [for Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12839

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norman Macleod
Date:
[24 September 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0243; Reel 1054
Summary:

Will send manuscript of article by JH's daughter [?] on history of Alsace and Lorraine for publication in NM's Good Words. JH is busy compiling general catalog of all known double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7326

From:
Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Александр Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 52
Summary:

Outlines the evidence for his view that ascidian larvae are true vertebrates presented in his paper ["Weitere Studien über die Entwicklung der einfachen Ascidien", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 7 (1871): 101–302]. CD can cite this as confirmation of AOK’s earlier claims.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4977

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
25 September 1870
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [pp. 247-249]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3702

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Birkbeck Nevins
Date:
25 September 1870
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 73/160 z item 54
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7324

From:
Edward Livingston Youmans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 183: 2
Summary:

Concerning an American edition of Descent by Appleton’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7325

From:
Edward Livingston Youmans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 183: 3
Summary:

A note to inform CD that ELY has sent his earlier letter [7324] to the Athenaeum, being unsure of CD’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-09-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 449
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
26 Sept 1870
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 214–17)
Summary:

Wants sheets [of Descent] for foreign editions. Asks JM to determine price to be charged for the stereotypes of 62 cuts. Dallas would be excellent for the index but must be "civilly warned" not to delay. Encloses memo on the index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1116

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
27 September [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-7328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 181–3
Summary:

Comments on JDH’s report of Liverpool meeting.

Huxley’s address.

Sir Roderick [Murchison]’s "apotheosis".

Tyndall’s lecture is "grand" except for egotistical beginning. Some Frenchmen have pitched into CD for using the "as if" reasoning, which Tyndall shows is justified.

Has just read George Rolleston’s address in Nature.

Anton Dohrn says German public have high opinion of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-09-27

From:
J. Rothwell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
27 September 1870
Source of text:
Unit 3, p. 145, VPRS 1092 Governor's letter books, VA 644 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1467

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[27 September 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H726
Summary:

Thanks for grant of £50 from B.A.A.S. for calculations related to request from Georg Erman [see JH's 1870-5-6].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2259

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 September 1870
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 194-195
  • Ebay (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel1468

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.78
Summary:

Comments on JH's concerns about actinometric measurements [see JH's 1870-9-20]; recommends the study of periodicity of waves on Atlantic Coast.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7329

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 378
Summary:

Various arrangements concerning the publication of Descent. "It will cause men to prick up [their] ears – & to elevate their eyebrows." JM thinks he will venture to print 2500 copies.

Suggests CD tone down as possibly indelicate a passage on proportion of advances made by the two sexes in animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10701

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.61
Summary:

Has had a letter from Cleveland Abbe inquiring when JH's Catalogue of Double Stars can be expected. Howard and Thomas Grubb have just erected his telescope but the eye end is not finished. Instrument will be very 'handy.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2440

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.294
Summary:

Sends notice from [C. P. B.] Walker regarding pendulum experiments in India. Would welcome suggestions for new experiments in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-70-09-29a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Henry Archer
Date:
29 September 1870
Source of text:
2/137/4, Archer papers, University of Melbourne Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 212–13)
Summary:

CD did not promise Appleton stereotypes of text [of Descent]; only of cuts.

Wishes to know which passage JM thought "coarse". Remembers only a quotation from John Hunter on courtship of female being required "to give her desires" [Descent 1: 273]. He fancied a quotation rendered the sentence less coarse.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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