From:
Archibald Campbell Tait
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1870-9
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.424
Summary:
Expresses concern over Church of England schools. Suggests appeal to raise funds.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 87
Summary:
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Софья Васильевна Ковалевская)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 53
Summary:
Accepts CD’s offer to order books from the Royal Society Library.
VOK asks for information about W. B. Carpenter’s dredging expedition in the Porcupine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Peter Lesley
Date:
[1 September 1870]
Source of text:
APS (no i.d.)
Summary:
Has received, through the good offices of the Smithsonian Institution, a number of back issues as well as current issues of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. The best way to send these volumes is by way of the Smithsonian.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.285
Summary:
Sends some remeasured double star positions from the Radcliffe Observatory, together with comments about other double star observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.170, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.512
Summary:
Has been trying to make pendulum curves. Believes they may help explain the different sunspot forms. Thanks JH for the spectroscopic observation memoirs.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 39
Summary:
Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.
Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211)
Summary:
Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[4 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.330
Summary:
Thanks WS for August 29 photographs. Is sending JH's son's [John's] certificate. Pities the 'fallen Emperor' [Napoleon III].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 80
Summary:
Will order the first set of casts from Murray.
Thanks CD for a book for his wife from the Royal Society Library.
His brother [Alexander] is delighted at being referred to in CD’s work [Descent 1: 205].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.25
Summary:
Is grateful for JH's note. Agrees with him about the mystery of the sunspots. Is awaiting some heliographs from Ely. Is inquiring from Kew as to any recent magnetic disturbances that may coincide with the appearance of the sunspots. Is grateful for Alexander Hershel's information.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[7 September 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.42
Summary:
Gives advice to son John about whom to ask for a signature for the certificate for fellowship in the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-8-4]; talks about the war [Franco-Prussian ?], and announces the birth of a son to daughter Amelia and Thomas Wade in Peking.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 106: C3–4
Summary:
Sends CD proofs of a lecture he will give at Liverpool. Asks CD to check the part referring to him.
Élie de Beaumont’s remark, in which he requires CD to recant before being admitted to the [French] Academy, is intolerable. "This spirit has much to do with the present condition of France."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Sept 1870
Source of text:
The Michael Faraday Museum at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, reference RI MS JT/2/10/458, spine title: Journal V111A 1858–71
Summary:
CD finds JT’s discourse "grand and most interesting" [On the scientific use of the imagination (1870)]. Flattered by what JT says about him.
He is "a rash man to say a good word for Pangenesis for it has hardly a friend among naturalists".
CD is much struck with what JT says about "pondering" and delighted by his "as if" argument.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.292
Summary:
Sends packet from [John] Hennessey to JH for his perusal. Discusses recent weather. Wants JH's opinion of self-recording meteorological instruments. Mentions wreck of the Hansa.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[14 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS Sa.678
Summary:
Approves of ES's actinometric methods, but wonders about absorbent power of alcoholic liquid. Laments 'sad conclusion' to career of 'Hansa,' and hopes her companion is more successful.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 81
Summary:
Requests a copy of [Living] Cirripedia to send to his brother, Alexander, who is working in Naples and wishes to verify CD’s discovery of complementary males.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 293
Summary:
CD’s deerhound puppy will be ready soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project