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DCP-LETT-7376

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 [Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 192
Summary:

Has heard "sad tales" about CD’s forthcoming book [Descent]; does not think even CD can persuade him his ancestors were apes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7789

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 13
Summary:

John Lubbock has nearly finished his Thysanura book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-11-19

From:
William Denison
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 November 1870
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1476

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.279, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7378

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 110: B70–3
Summary:

Reports case of apparent incipient dimorphism. Observations on variations in flower structure, especially style length, within species of Polemoniaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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
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WCP1936

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 November [1870]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 207-208
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 253-254]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 229-230]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace 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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WCP1937

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 November 1870
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B94-95
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 209
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 254-255]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

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
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WCP2263

From:
E. P. Ingram
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 November 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 202
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-11-29

From:
Luis I, King of Portugal
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 November 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M200a.0a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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