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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller?
To:
Notes by Ferdinand von Krauss?
Date:
October 1870
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Henry Archer
Date:
1 October 1870
Source of text:
2/137/5, Archer papers, University of Melbourne Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
John Wallace
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
October 1870
Source of text:
Wallace, J. (1871). [Extracts of letters from John Wallace about horned toads and rattlesnakes]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London : 39 (1): 1-2 [p. 2]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Blore
Date:
[Oct 1870 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 82
Summary:

Horace Darwin wishes to have private tuition to help him pass the "Little Go" and so CD wonders if he might be excused College lectures for the present, to prevent undue strain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 76
Summary:

The outbreak of war and war work have interfered with JVC’s scientific work.

Publisher does not, however, think the war will hurt success of Descent in Germany, and JVC asks for corrected sheets for his use in translating it.

Wishes struggle between Romanic and Teutonic races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
3 October 1870
Source of text:
W70/12686, unit 576, 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
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
3 October 1870
Source of text:
MM/10/86, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[3 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS MM.10.86A (C: RS MM.10.86B)
Summary:

Discusses significance of Col. Napier's pendulum observations to research on earth's constitution and gravitation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 October [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 43
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
5 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 16–17)
Summary:

Sympathetic to JVC’s views on Franco-Prussian war [see 7332].

Astonished at JVC’s readiness to begin work. Will send sheets as soon as possible. Has asked Murray to charge for stereotypes of 64 woodblocks at cost. JVC must make his own agreement with publisher.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 83
Summary:

Forwards Alexander Kovalevsky’s letter [7326] with the information on the vertebrate character of ascidian larvae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.62
Summary:

Has sent JH's letter to Cleveland Abbe with a request to send JH the information. Has not seen the sun through his new telescope yet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0220; Reel 1087
Summary:

Notice of £50 grant from B.A.A.S. to JH and G. A. Erman to support H. J. R. Petersen in recomputing Gaussian constant for 1839. [JH annotation: £40 remitted 13 Mar. 1871; £10 remaining.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Main
Date:
6 Oct 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.384)
Summary:

Regrets he is unable to correct his "little manual" ["Geology" in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Recommends that John Phillips revise it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[6 October 1870]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.25
Summary:

Asks a whole series of silly riddles, and JH complains of not having heard from AD.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[7 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.332
Summary:

Writes to clarify the actions of the B.A.A.S. [see JH's 1870-5-24].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[7 October 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0466; Reel 1055
Summary:

Corrects date on publication by G. A. Erman.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[7 October 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H730
Summary:

Requests some rewording of B.A.A.S. resolution [see JH's 1870-9-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[7 October 1870]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library (C: TxU:H/L-0176; Reel 1054)
Summary:

Having been placed jointly in charge with G. A. Erman of a B.A.A.S. grant expenditure to support H. J. R. Petersen's recomputation of Gaussian constant for 1829, JH asks for corrections in the statement of the actions funded.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 178: 113
Summary:

Seeks CD’s support as a candidate for Edinburgh Chair in Natural History.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project