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DCP-LETT-7379

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

Sends two sheets [of Descent] for correction of names of birds. PLS will save him many disgraceful misspellings. Descent now being prepared in five foreign editions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7381

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 85
Summary:

Sofya Kovalevsky not admitted to University in Berlin.

Translating the four sheets CD sent. When will book [Descent] be printed?

Alexander [Kovalevsky] has gone to the Red Sea to study corals.

Will work on live Scalpellum at Naples in spring.

Bemoans England’s Prussian sympathies. Paris will fall without bombardment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8)
Summary:

Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.

Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7924

From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 November [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.127
Summary:

Acknowledges return of R.S.L. certificate signed by JH. Anticipating visit with JH's son John, whom AW appointed to Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9758

From:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.105
Summary:

What are JH's views on a suitable person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7382

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 106: B94–5
Summary:

On a good criticism of ARW’s views [North Am. Rev. (1870)].

Problems of establishing a permanent residence.

His Presidential Address for Entomological Society will answer A. Murray on geographical distribution of Coleoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9759

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Katherine A. S. Gibson
Date:
1870-11-[26 orlater]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.106 (C: RS:HS 24.341)
Summary:

Outlines the difficulty of selecting a person to write a memoir of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
27 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Bran [deerhound puppy] is thriving; enjoys English life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7384

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 184: 15
Summary:

Concerning the Dutch edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5001

From:
Cleveland Abbe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.379
Summary:

Acknowledging receipt of JH's Slough catalogues. Further news regarding the publication of Professor O. M. Mitchel[l]'s Observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7053

From:
Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 280
Summary:

Requests CD write in support of Government pension for her husband, George Cupples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7385

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stuart Strahan
Date:
29 Nov 1870
Source of text:
Heritage Book Shop, Los Angeles (dealers) (January 2018)
Summary:

A recommendation for George Cupples who has applied for a government pension: "I have corresponded with him on scientific subjects during several years. On some very intricate points he has been so kind as not only to collect, at the cost of much trouble, information from various sources, but has likewise made for me valuable observations".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7386

From:
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 322, 322/1
Summary:

Encloses a few answers to CD’s queries on expression. Continues to observe the expressions and habits of the Malays, Dyaks, and Saribus tribes [See Expression, pp. 21, 209].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7386A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
30 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/11)
Summary:

Is pleased to hear that the translator for the Dutch edition [of Descent] is a person so well qualified [see 7384]. He encloses a facsimile of the title page. Reports arrangements with John Murray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6361

From:
Thomas G. Bunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.126
Summary:

Sending calculations on the relative proportions of land to sea on the surface of the globe. Would welcome any comments from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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