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DCP-LETT-7471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 188–9
Summary:

Returns pamphlets.

B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?

Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.

Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.

The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7473

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 45
Summary:

Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7472

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 93
Summary:

Has left Paris because of the war.

J. J. Moulinié and Carl Vogt are at work on Descent, which CR plans to publish in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10862

From:
H. E. Hubbard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.212
Summary:

Would like his views on the correct definition of a billion, to settle an argument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10809

From:
John S. Harris
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.162
Summary:

Queries regarding the red glow seen during an eclipse of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8741

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.351
Summary:

Thanks RP for sending RP's Sun. Suggests a theory that the solar corona, rather than originating in the earth's atmosphere, is produced by reflection from meteoric dust. Informs RP that he has completed a catalogue of all observations of double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7474

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 385
Summary:

Encloses a letter [missing] from C. Reinwald, publisher of the French edition of Descent [1872].

Vincenzi [of Unione, Turin – publisher of Italian translation] has not yet paid the account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8742

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.130
Summary:

Raises objections to JH's theory of the solar corona. Discusses possible existence of extensive meteoric dust in the solar system. Requests permission to dedicate a book on sidereal astronomy to JH. Asks JH whether his father in later years always used a front focus for his large telescopes and whether he saw the supposed four additional Uranian satellites with his 40-foot reflector.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-8198

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 65
Summary:

Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7475

From:
William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 130
Summary:

On irritation of cutaneous nerves exciting responses in unconnected skin muscles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86)
Summary:

Sends questions on expressions of Laura Bridgman.

Has finished Descent. Believes that parts, like that on moral sense, will aggravate AG.

Working on an essay on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4961

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[5 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.347 & 24.345
Summary:

Regarding patents, and quoting the results of experiments by foreigners without acknowledging the sources.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7476F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 43)
Summary:

Does shut eyes when scratching himself. Will ask Langstaff about muscles used when playing flute. Is back at work but hobbling around.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8743

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[7 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.352
Summary:

Replies to RP's objections to his theory of the solar corona. Informs RP that William Herschel's larger telescopes were used as front focus. Suggests explanation of his father's disconfirmed discovery of four additional Uranian moons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 333
Summary:

Will send copy of Descent.

Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?

Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.

Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].

Pointed ears in the insane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7477

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 125
Summary:

The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Fenwick
Date:
8 Feb [1871-82]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31)
Summary:

Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8744

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.131
Summary:

Discusses JH's response to his comments on JH's theory of the solar corona. Discusses great difficulty of writing his planned book on sidereal astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7478A

From:
Felice Finzi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 118
Summary:

Sends a publication to Darwin.

Asks for a portrait.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10522

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.399
Summary:

Forgot to call his attention to the column regarding the Julian period in the Nautical Almanac. Something strange about the neighborhood of R. Leporis. He has no doubt seen the table of Julian dates in the Connaissance des temps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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