From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[18 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.59
Summary:
Giving his opinion on a paper and drawing of [Francis] Abbott.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
19 May 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Expresses sympathy [on death of FCD’s daughter].
Will be grateful for his paper and letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[19 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.60
Summary:
Further report on a paper and drawing of [Francis] Abbot [very similar to WH's 1870-5-18].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
[19 May 1870]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 31 (1871), 228-30
Summary:
Expresses skepticism on the claims made by F. Abbott, observing from Tasmania, of the detection of changes in the Eta Argus nebula. Compares Abbott's drawings with drawings made by JH and and by JH's son John.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 88
Summary:
Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.
HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 147
Summary:
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 120
Summary:
Announces CD’s election as Honorary Member of the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8018/1)
Summary:
Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 47–50
Summary:
Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.
J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/58)
Summary:
Intends to see Adam Sedgwick.
Arranges to meet AN.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0364; Reel 1087
Summary:
Will visit JH on 27 May.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[24 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.315
Summary:
About an application to the B.A.A.S. for a grant to fund the calculations related to reducing the magnetic observations of 1847-48.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0365; Reel 1087
Summary:
Apologizes for delay in responding to JH. Wrote to JH yesterday about AM's plan to visit Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 169–72
Summary:
Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].
Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.
CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".
Saw Alfred Newton.
CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,
and on cross- and self-fertilisation.
Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?
Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 43
Summary:
Behaviour of ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
25 May [1870]
Source of text:
Malmö Museer (MM 031994)
Summary:
Thanks for copy of part one of EPW’s Spicilegia biologica (Wright 1870).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 63
Summary:
Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.
Observations on insects visiting barberries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 225
Summary:
Has finished the article [on the action of the eyelids in Ned. Arch. Geneeskd. & Natuurkd. 5 (1870), also see 7238]; summarises: the occlusion of the eyelids protects the vessels, and the eye itself, against the danger of pressure caused by excessive expiratory action. The weakness of the conclusion is that the extent of the danger caused by the pressure to the normal state of the eye is not precisely known.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. Ryle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.516
Summary:
Appreciates JH's opinion regarding variability of climate, although it disagrees with his own. His views are not provable and the question remains one of probability.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
J. Ryle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870-5-27 or after]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.517
Summary:
[Richard?] Proctor [?] agrees with JR's views on Cosmical Climates. Re-presents his theory because he feels he did not state it fairly in his earlier [1870-5-27] letter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project