From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22)
Summary:
Possible quotations about shame for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John James Aubertin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 125
Summary:
Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;
reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 68
Summary:
Parallel between CD’s account of morality [in Descent], of social instinct preceding selfishness, and Henry Maine’s account of notions of property of a community preceding individual property [in Ancient law (1861)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
1 March 1871
Source of text:
Y71/2595, unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 437
Summary:
Discusses new edition of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[1 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.358
Summary:
Admits that recent heliographs of the corona favor the eruption theory over JH's meteoric theory. Notes that this raises question of the nature of the photosphere. Cites recent results showing link between sunspot formation and terrestrial magnetic disturbances.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946)
Summary:
Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.
Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947)
Summary:
Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C7
Summary:
JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
