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DCP-LETT-8205

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226
Summary:

Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 278
Summary:

Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7479

From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 108
Summary:

Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].

TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001162

From:
Charles Meldrum
To:
Walter White, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
10 February 1871
Source of text:
MM/17/27, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-8208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31)
Summary:

Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6868

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[11 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.354
Summary:

Comments on sunspot activity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4962

From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.348
Summary:

Has notified J. C. Poggendorf of JH's notes on calorimeters. Discussion of Michael Faraday's indebtedness to JH's Prelim. Discourse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-71-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
12 February 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-02-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Marcus Clarke
Date:
12 February 1871
Source of text:
VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 121, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

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
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