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WCP1729

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
20 January 1871
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

Thanks Sclater for forwarding on a letter from Hampden and for the reply Sclater has written to it.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel2225

From:
William John Macquorn Rankine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.469
Summary:

Will mention JH's subject for investigation to Sir William Thomson. Is busy with Committee on Ships of War.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (13)
Summary:

Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7448

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 186–7
Summary:

Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."

St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7449

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 28
Summary:

JBI regrets his part in appointments of his successors.

His friendship with CD and its effect on his fellow clerics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7450A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 June 2008)
Summary:

Is obliged for StGJM’s book [On the genesis of species (1871)].

Would not have sent him vol. 1 [of Descent] if he had known that StGJM’s book was already published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8361

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Nature
Date:
[21 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.161b
Summary:

Requests publication of a notice of the recalculation by H. J. R. Petersen of the Gaussian constants of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7451

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 190
Summary:

Thanks CD for vol. 1 of Descent. Feels nothing but sympathy and esteem for a writer labouring for the promotion of what he conscientiously believes to be the truth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9355

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[22 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.107
Summary:

Has sent a note to Nature stating the details of the grant paid by the B.A.A.S. to H. J. R. Petersen for magnetic observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1541

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Ellis Dudgeon
Date:
[22 January 1871]
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.26 (C: RS:HS 24.348)
Summary:

Comments on use of 'air' lens rather than glass in some circumstances.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1539

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
22 January 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.17-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8209F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Marlborough Robert Pryor
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871?]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (15 December 2011)
Summary:

Suggests Mivart should have read account of Niata Cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-01-23b

From:
Henry Dwight
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 January 1871
Source of text:
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
[23 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 95–6
Summary:

Comments on StGJM’s book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has no personal objection to a word of it, but regrets their views differ so much.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7453A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
23 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

Acknowledges StGJM’s kind letter. [See 7451.]

Offers to alter the "dogmatic assertion" referred to on page 102 [of StGJM’s On the genesis of species] but in 5th ed. of Origin and in Variation CD finds only qualified expressions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7331

From:
Robert Ellis Dudgeon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.507
Summary:

Is grateful for his comments on his own paper on vision. Would he refer him to the work by Mr. Chopal on lens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-71-01-23a

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 January 1871
Source of text:
No. 174, unit 24, p. 269, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-01-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
24 January 1871
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-01-24b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
24 January 1871
Source of text:
Y71/911, 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
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