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DCP-LETT-6570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
23 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Thanks JO for intending to dedicate his The Andes and the Amazon to him.

The discovery of marine shells high up the Amazons CD finds extremely interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10681

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[23 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.246
Summary:

Note with return of proof of JH's biographical sketch [see WH's 1869-1-22] of William Dawes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6575

From:
Carl Friedrich Claus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 176
Summary:

Sends a paper on reproductive modes of Leptodera ["Organisation und Fortpflanzen von Leptodera", Schr. Ges. Beförd. Naturw. Marburg (1869)].

Criticises Ernst Haeckel’s work as too unripe and enthusiastic.

Asks CD for some specimens of cirripedes in pupal stage for a work in progress.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.359)
Summary:

Has heard that book by Alphonse M[ilne]-Edwards [? Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques, 4 vols. (1867–71)] is excellent.

Asks when horns appear on young male fallow deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-01-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
24 January 1869
Source of text:
A644, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6574

From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 175–6
Summary:

Answer to CD’s query as to whether horns on deer are for use or ornament. [See Descent 2: 252–3.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6428

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[24 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.196 & 24.247
Summary:

Thanks for his report on dredging operations. Comments on the findings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6608

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 8–9
Summary:

Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?

Social news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10682

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.49
Summary:

Professor Joseph Winlock of Harvard agrees with all WH's observations of Nebula of Orion. The observations at Bishop's Observatory between 1844 and 1851 appear to be the work of W. R. Dawes. Comments on the reasons why the bright lines are so easily seen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6578

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A51
Summary:

On development of horns in fawns of fallow deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-01-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
26 January 1869
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 208, no. 578, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel13848

From:
Henry W. Field
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0196; Reel 1087
Summary:

Lists dates in 1851 on which steps were taken in appointment of Charles Sterry as HF's assistant assayer. HF is still under accusation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001657

From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
LC Alexander
Date:
26 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/21/102, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel11921

From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.283
Summary:

Offers to send on to JH any notices of double star observations that he receives.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6577

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 43
Summary:

Believes Portuguese habit of removing tails of pointers is responsible for birth of some tailless dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6429

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.197
Summary:

Thanks for his kind letter. Is surprised that the formation of flint attracted him. Comments on this and similar matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE332

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
27 Jan 1869?
Source of text:
HS 16.325, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2633

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.325
Summary:

Mary Somerville is sending her autobiography and desires comments and suggestions. She is busy with mathematics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
27 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360)
Summary:

Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6465

From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.233
Summary:

Has altered two of the plates in one of JH's papers. Hopes that he will agree with the alteration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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