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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
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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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
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