From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 85: 109–112
Summary:
Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:
Thanks PLS for his generous offer to go over the part on birds [in Descent]. Does not think PLS realises that there are more than 200 pages – most of which will have nothing new for him.
W. H. Hudson’s proofs have arrived ["Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1870): 87–9, 158–60, 332–4, 545–50, 671–3, 748–50, 798–82; (1871): 4–7, 258–62, 326–9].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10–17 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 4
Summary:
Relates instances of rabbits suffering from a condition which affects only the patches of white on their fur.
Will make observations on the platysma for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[10 November 1870]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:
[Responding to WJ's 1870-10-29], JH declines participating, suggesting that too many lobbying groups already exist and that such groups frequently end up agitating for ends others than those that led to their creation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 41
Summary:
Pleased CD is quoting him in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
11 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019)
Summary:
Accepts PLS’s offer to read proofs of [Descent].
W. H. Hudson’s paper is interesting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jacob Heinrich Schmick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 55
Summary:
Sends CD two books outlining a new geological theory. Believes his theory explains the discontinuities in the fossil record.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH compliments Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] on his paper on 'Spontaneous Generation & Evolution' & hopes that it is a prelude to further research into the chemistry of vegetation as JDH believes there is no better man to do it. JDH is currently reading John Tyndall's paper 'On the Actions of Rays of High Refrangibility upon Gaseous Matter' in PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON & he is struck by Tyndall's remarks on the decomposition of carbonic acid, by solar rays, in the leaves of plants. JDH says that he had thought about this independently & believes it would make a good research subject. Has heard that Dr P[ercival] Wright it going to Algeria for the winter. JDH hopes that he has left the key to the [Trinity College] Herbarium for them.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 November 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 295
Summary:
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
15 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.385)
Summary:
Discusses his present book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 43)
Summary:
Would like to hear results of JM’s November booksale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard John Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.115
Summary:
JH may recall meeting him at the Cape in March 1836. Now had a query regarding the size and limits of zodiacal light. Quotes case of errors in observations made by the Captain and Mate of a ship on which RN was returning from the Cape. Has now retired from the service.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.320
Summary:
Further comments on JH's paper on the musical scales.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 381
Summary:
JM reports 1900 [advance] copies of Descent were taken at his annual sale,
and 340 copies of Origin [5th ed.] were sold.
Sheets for Dutch publisher will be sent to CD immediately. JM cautions against possibility that Dutch edition will anticipate the English.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 172–4
Summary:
Observations on winter colour of coats of male and female elk,
spots on deer,
and tuft of hair on breasts of wild female turkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
17 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 242)
Summary:
Pleased at [advance] sale [of Descent]. Suggests 3000 copies be printed. Corrections are frightful and, CD fears, will not be done until end of year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 4 (EH 88205902)
Summary:
Thanks WO for information on platysma, which he did not know could be brought into voluntary action. Is coming to believe it has nothing to do with expression.
On the relation between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants, CD suggests WO send his paper to J. Wyman and propose he investigate whether white as well as black pigs will eat paint-root.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[17 November 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.41
Summary:
Asks son John whom he would like to have sign the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-9-7]; JH talks about ways of dealing with local irregularities in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1869-11-25]; is wishing Amelia and family were out of China and into India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
17 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr. Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 3–4)
Summary:
CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project