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DCP-LETT-7389

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 68
Summary:

Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.

Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.

Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP670

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
13 December 1870
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418322
Summary:

Will not reply to Murray concerning "the affinities of Coleoptera"; Darwin has already written to Murray.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7391

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 67
Summary:

Forgot to send books.

Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7390

From:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12
Summary:

CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
Date:
[after 15 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12v
Summary:

Thanks Academy for his election as Associate Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-12-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
16 December 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 455
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7396

From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 132
Summary:

CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.

Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903)
Summary:

Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.

Hopes to visit WO when next in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7395

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 295
Summary:

Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.

Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7397

From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 5
Summary:

Would be pleased to be visited by CD.

J. Wyman will make observations on black pigs and white pigs in Florida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1823

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Joseph Norman] [Lockyer]
Date:
18 December 1870
Source of text:
University of California, Santa Barbara: MSS 28: Box 6: 12, Wallace, Alfred Russel
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7066

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B69–70
Summary:

Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.

Comments on George’s escape.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7398

From:
Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 51
Summary:

Congratulates CD on his election to L’Académie Royale de Belgique.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
Date:
[after 19 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 83
Summary:

Thanks LGK for the part he played in getting CD elected as an Associate [of Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0965

From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
20 December [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel9354

From:
Georg Adolph Erman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.106
Summary:

Sends an article from the Astronomische Nachrichten acknowledging the assistance of the B.A.A.S. to two Prussian scientists.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7399

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 42
Summary:

CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1571

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[20 December 1870]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 46126.408
Summary:

Is pleased to hear of signs of recovery for RM from his ill health, and all wish him a complete recovery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7400

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
20 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].

CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".

Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7067

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B71–2
Summary:

Confirms number of shares.

Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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