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From:
Benjamin Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077)
Summary:

Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.

Writes of a recent book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.417
Summary:

Question regarding auroral streams. [Part of this letter is missing; digest was obtained by consulting JH's reply of 1870-11-3]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
John Dallachy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 November 1870
Source of text:
MEL 67540, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
3 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Will collect the "precious animal" [deerhound puppy] from King’s Cross.

Thanks GC for information on the perch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library (ACCS: TxU:H/M-0222.2; Reel 1087)
Summary:

Agrees with GG and G. G. Stokes that the 'Magnetic Reduction Grant' should be approved. G. A. Erman also agrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William H. Attree
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.337
Summary:

Relationship of electricity to magnetism, and relevance to 'auroral streamers'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William B. Davis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.475
Summary:

Is looking for employment as a calculator and if JH has the superintendence of the reduction of C. F. Gauss's Constants he would like the position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 251
Summary:

A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:

Asks PLS whether he will look over list of names of birds [for Descent] to make sure they are spelled correctly. "I have a most unfortunate weakness … to copy proper names incorrectly".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.338
Summary:

Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 200
Summary:

Describes his children, who all seem to have inherited both dark hairs from their mother and light hairs from WGS with the latter greatly outnumbering the former.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
6 November 1870
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag, Gotha.For a published version of this letter see Voigt (1996), pp. 97-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 November 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 452
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 40
Summary:

W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lubbock
Date:
[6 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.339
Summary:

Returns, with thanks, a copy of JL's father's [John William Lubbock] work on lunar theory, and compliments JL on his own writings on prehistoric man.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Worthington George Smith
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 54224: 196)
Summary:

Thanks for the information sent by WGS in his letter of 4 November 1870.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thompson Forster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 160
Summary:

Details of an apparently hereditary deformity in a man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William H. Attree
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.418
Summary:

Thanking him for his reply to his query of 1870-11-1.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 3
Summary:

Sends CD a paper dealing in part with animal pigmentation [Med.-Chir. Trans. 2d ser. 411 [check vol no!?] (1870): 263–90]. Discusses relationship between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 147: 193
Summary:

Has read WO’s paper [see 7361] with great interest. If WO’s views are confirmed he will be able to explain many odd little details about the colouring of animals.

Can WO observe if the platysma myoides is brought into strong action in people suffering from severe dyspnoea?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project