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Herschel3111

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.276 (C: Académie belgique: #61)
Summary:

Thanks JH for accepting dedication. This has brought AQ utmost pleasure. Has dedicated few works. Expresses his esteem for JH's character and talent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-71-07-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
14 July 1871
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-07-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
14 July 1871
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0626

From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
15 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-71-07-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Lange
Date:
15 July 1871
Source of text:
Lange papers, Botanisk Centralbibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7866

From:
George Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 229
Summary:

The cat exhibition was a success. Asks whether the next one might be made to serve interests of science and of CD’s investigations by, for example, offering prizes for cats with special modifications or characters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7867

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 July [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (101)
Summary:

CD’s sons, George and Francis, are to visit the U. S. Can AG supply any letters of introduction?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7868A

From:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 230: 28
Summary:

CD named a corresponding member of the mathematical-scientific section of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7868

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B107–8
Summary:

Sorry CD allows criticisms of Darwinism to worry him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1949

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B107-108
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 233
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 269-270]
Summary:

ARW reassures Darwin that he has an army of converts.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6765

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 11
Summary:

Gives CD some information on wills.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7841

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 21
Summary:

Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7870

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grove
Date:
17 July [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

The cat exhibition might provide information on unusual breeds of cats and their inheritance.

Expresses interest in deafness of white, blue-eyed cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7822

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [July] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 173–4
Summary:

Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.

Sexual preference of a blue turbit.

CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7869

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
17 July [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7873

From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 94–5
Summary:

Observations on ocelli of Brahmaea certhia.

Monstrosity born to a woman – half bear, half human.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-07-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Guilfoyle
Date:
18 July 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7872

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 186
Summary:

Thanks CD for a letter to Galton which enabled him to get information on the inhabitants of a part of South Africa. Is trying to work up the ethnology of South Africa, but fears he will become disheartened.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7871

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 July [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

One of WBT’s poultry skulls has been misplaced; CD cannot believe he neglected to return it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
19 July [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 27)
Summary:

Introduces E. L. Youmans to correspondent. Youmans is seeking small monographs by the most competent English authors [for his International Scientific Series].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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