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Herschel12259

From:
Richard John Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.116
Summary:

Obliged for JH's kind and complete reply to his query on zodiacal light. Hopes the diagram will be included in the next edition of JH's book. Would like to include JH's visiting card in his album.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.382.357
Summary:

Is sending on G. G. Stokes instructions about polarization; several expeditions have left for more southerly locations to observe the upcoming solar eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3564

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 December [1870?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.410 (C: RI 575)
Summary:

Thanks for suggestion-filled letter. Remarks on blue color of water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 December 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.382.356
Summary:

About the health of Richarda Airy and that of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7387G

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 5 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 13
Summary:

Sends list of bills.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7387H

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 5 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 19
Summary:

Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7387

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 382
Summary:

Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7021

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 4
Summary:

Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4935

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.324
Summary:

Is sending G. G. Stokes's instructions about polarization. Observation parties are off to Oran, Gibraltar and Cadiz.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7387F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
5 Dec 1870
Source of text:
Dr W. N. Livingstone (private collection)
Summary:

Is sending by this post three sheets and will send another tomorrow thus almost completing the part on birds. His congratulations and thanks for PLS’s labours with them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6362

From:
Thomas G. Bunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.127
Summary:

Sending his apologies for some errors he made in his calculations in his letter of 30 Nov.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7388

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 Dec 1870
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (90)
Summary:

Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.

Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11154

From:
Henry Samuel King
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.42
Summary:

His eldest son, Henry Seymour King, will deliver the annual oration at Charterhouse on 12 Dec. Would give him great pleasure if JH could be present.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1538

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 December 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel1553

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[9 December 1870]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 37199.524
Summary:

Thanks CB for receipt of a meteorological work by CB's son [B. H. Babbage], now in Australia. JH says he grows stupider every day and is a 'prisoner in the bonds of bronchitic tyranny.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2273

From:
G. W. Royston-Pigott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.507
Summary:

Discusses his thoughts on high powered definition and residual aberration in microscopes. Thinks they may be applicable to telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7389

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 68
Summary:

Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.

Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.

Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7391

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 67
Summary:

Forgot to send books.

Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7390

From:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12
Summary:

CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
Date:
[after 15 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12v
Summary:

Thanks Academy for his election as Associate Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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