From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 294
Summary:
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Paul Rohrbach
Date:
8 October 1870
Source of text:
Archiv, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.79
Summary:
Reports on status of John Robinson's eye following cataract surgery.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 October 1870
Source of text:
DAR 193: 114
Summary:
Cancelled. Now enclosure to S7695.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[9 October 1870]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #57
Summary:
Apologizes for not writing often. Has been ill. 'Moderate' use of 'Coca de Peru' [cocaine] helps. Is working on a 'General Catalogue of double stars reduced to 1830.0.' Acknowledges works received.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 October 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 196
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 October 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 450
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0509; Reel 1093
Summary:
Explains error in B.A.A.S. report on grant for G. A. Erman. Will notify George Griffith.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Griffith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 October 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0221; Reel 1087
Summary:
Sorry to learn of error in B.A.A.S. resolution regarding computation of Gaussian constant. JH's proposal, explained by G. G. Stokes, was passed by Committee of Recommendations. Errors occurred later, in transcription. Will resubmit JH's proposal to Council.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 379
Summary:
Cannot find the [indelicate] passage he referred to in last letter.
Various publication arrangements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wyville Thomson
Date:
10 Oct 1870
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (13 July 2022, lot 59)
Summary:
Testimonial letter hoping that CWT will be successful in getting Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
11 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 18)
Summary:
Sends first four sheets [of Descent]. Murray charges £14 for the 64 stereotypes.
Cannot supply copies of woodcuts from Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–9]. Hopes JVC’s publisher will be able to arrange to include them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
11 October 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 451
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 84
Summary:
Leaving England.
Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 41–2)
Summary:
Glad to hear Dallas will do index of Descent, but he needs keeping up to the mark. Agrees to a Dutch edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 60
Summary:
Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.398
Summary:
Has calculated the ecliptic of Thucydides. Comments on this and the reading given by E. W. Hartwig. Regarding the 7 eclipses of the sun during the past 30 years. G. Bishop's assistant (W. Plummer) is investigating the orbit of the great comet of 1861. Nautical Almanac for 1874 delayed due to extra work on the transit of Venus.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Forster, L. M.
Date:
12 October [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 417
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[12 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.7.7
Summary:
Corrects a misunderstanding about the date to which magnetic observations are to be reduced.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Pieter Johannes Veth
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 October 1870
Source of text:
KITLV - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies: KITLV H 636
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project