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Herschel9720

From:
John P. Gassiot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.67
Summary:

B.A.A.S. has announced its intention of giving up Kew Observatory. What does he think of the possibility of the R.S.L. taking it over for Magnetic Observations? Sends a copy of the Kew report, also a copy of a letter from [Balfour] Stewart.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
14 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 279
Summary:

Discusses presentation copies [of Descent]. Dallas returned proofs of index on Friday. Asks for John Stuart Mill’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-02-14b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Birch
Date:
14 February 1871
Source of text:
Item IC 846928 74/1714, Queensland State Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-02-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Marcus Clarke
Date:
14 February 1871
Source of text:
VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 122, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
15 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 23–24)
Summary:

Hopes German edition [of Descent] has not yet been printed because he has fallen into a most serious blunder [about sexual selection never acting on the young] on pp. 297–9 of vol. 1.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7483

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 386
Summary:

Printing of Descent will be done this day. Cannot publish until next week.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7904

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.108
Summary:

Turned JH's mineral specimen over to N. S. Maskelyne. Poor health of GW's wife.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-71-02-15

From:
Samuel Bindon
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 February 1871
Source of text:
Letter no. 39/I.T.M.71, Outward letterbook 1870-9 pp. 136-140, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel6869

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.173
Summary:

Is glad he is pleased with the work of Balfour Stewart and himself. Has applied to R.S.L. for a further grant to carry on the observations and computations for another year. Intends to finance the last year himself. Since the death of his brother he has returned to business.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7484

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 312
Summary:

Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.

CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.

Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.

Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.

Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7484A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
16 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 249: 98
Summary:

"I have made a serious blunder in p. 297, vol 1 of my book [Descent of man]. Kindly inform me by return of post whether this is printed in Dutch; for if not I will send you a correction in M.S. There are also two short omissions to be made in Vol. 2 … "

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12166

From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.24
Summary:

His colleague, [G. R.] Waterhouse, has passed an inquiry from JH to NM regarding a mineralogical character. It is a specimen of Obsidian, very high in iron content.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7485

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 78
Summary:

The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.

JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-02-17a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
17 February 1871
Source of text:
Z71/2063, 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

Herschel9721

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John P. Gassiot
Date:
[17 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.68 (C: RS:HS 24.355 & 356)
Summary:

Comments on R.S.L. acquiring Kew Observatory building for creation of magnetic observatory [see JG's 1871-2-13].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5832

From:
Alfred Brothers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.301
Summary:

Encloses photographs taken of the last eclipse. Draws his attention to certain aspects of the eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-71-02-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl Meisner
Date:
18 February 1871
Source of text:
Mscr. G III 3, 50, University Library, Basel, Switzerland
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7487

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 146
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8130

From:
George Mathews Whipple
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.396
Summary:

Sends prints of solar photographs taken last week at Kew, as requested by Warren de La Rue. Regrets that picture on 11 Feb. was unsatisfactory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7488

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 87
Summary:

VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.

Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.

Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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