From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Brassey
Date:
[14 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.96
Summary:
Thanks for his pamphlet on 'Trade Unions and the Cost of Labour.' Comments on this.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Miss B. S. Clarke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.346
Summary:
Discusses her theory of aerolites and the zodiacal light. Used to visit his house at Slough.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 74
Summary:
Would like to visit CD at Down.
[Fourth] German edition of Origin will be out in a few weeks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 75
Summary:
Regrets he cannot come to Down on day suggested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Date:
18 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
John Gittleman (private collection)
Summary:
Has sent off specimens of Virgularia but fears they are in bad state. He could not find his dried specimens. Encloses notes that can be relied upon but may be of little use.
Also encloses a memorandum for Prof. K. G. Semper.
CD thinks Alcide d’Orbigny may have given name of Virgularia patagonica.
CD enjoyed RAvK’s recent visit [see 7164].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 12
Summary:
Is leaving tonight for Genoa;
sends a French paper [not identified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 209
Summary:
Asks CD to look at the "special phylogonies" on pp. 138 and 152 of his book [Forms of animal life (1870)]. His comments are based on reading Haeckel, who is highly speculative and quite wrong.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of Pall Mall Budget
Date:
[20 April 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0293; Reel 1054
Summary:
Examples from Iliad and other sources to show that military offensive tactic called 'Vertical Fire' did not originate with [L. N. M.] Carnot, as Mr. Mallet claimed in recent issue of Budget.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:
Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:
Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 35
Summary:
Italian translation [of Variation] is delayed, but printing should begin soon.
Will send CD one of his writings in which he defends the natural descent of man [Origin dell’uomo, 2d ed. (1870)].
CD’s theory is making great progress in Italy and daily gains supporters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Miss B. S. Clarke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.347
Summary:
Thanks for his letter about her theory regarding aerolites. Has another query on this question.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
On amount of modification and lines of descent in determining the position in man.
Reference to StGJM’s article "On the appendicular skeleton of the primates" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. [157 (1867): 299–430],
and his [and James Murie’s] article on lemurs ["On the anatomy of Lemuroidea"] Trans. Zool. Soc. [7 (1872): 1–114].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 186
Summary:
Is not prepared to express an opinion on man’s origin. On pure anatomical grounds he would form a family of the higher division of the primates, but if man’s intellectual, moral, and religious nature is considered, then "he differs more from an Anthropoid Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
23 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.375)
Summary:
Thanks StGJM for prompt answer correcting inaccuracies in CD’s notes on StGJM’s opinions. Expects "universal disapprobation" when he publishes Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Duncan [Stewart]
Date:
[23 April 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0144; Reel 1054
Summary:
No permanent optical solution to DS's double vision. Remarks on description by DS's son of cavalry duty in Ireland and Canada.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[23 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.305
Summary:
Inquires about other sunspot observations made by JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[23 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.304
Summary:
Asks whether WS has photographs of the sun for 21 and 22 April. Notes how curious sunspot activity has been. Doubts that such is reconcilable with the notion of 'meteoric in-falls.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H702
Summary:
Note to accompany forwarding of a letter; remarks on T. R. Robinson's upcoming cataract surgery.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 37
Summary:
Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project