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DCP-LETT-7396

From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 132
Summary:

CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.

Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.

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DCP-LETT-7394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903)
Summary:

Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.

Hopes to visit WO when next in London.

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DCP-LETT-7395

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 295
Summary:

Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.

Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7397

From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 5
Summary:

Would be pleased to be visited by CD.

J. Wyman will make observations on black pigs and white pigs in Florida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7066

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B69–70
Summary:

Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.

Comments on George’s escape.

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DCP-LETT-7398

From:
Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 51
Summary:

Congratulates CD on his election to L’Académie Royale de Belgique.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
Date:
[after 19 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 83
Summary:

Thanks LGK for the part he played in getting CD elected as an Associate [of Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences].

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Herschel9354

From:
Georg Adolph Erman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.106
Summary:

Sends an article from the Astronomische Nachrichten acknowledging the assistance of the B.A.A.S. to two Prussian scientists.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7399

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 42
Summary:

CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1571

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison
Date:
[20 December 1870]
Source of text:
BL Aaa 46126.408
Summary:

Is pleased to hear of signs of recovery for RM from his ill health, and all wish him a complete recovery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7400

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
20 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].

CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".

Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7067

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B71–2
Summary:

Confirms number of shares.

Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.

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Herschel4936

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.325
Summary:

Is sending two copies of his book on magnetism [Treatise on Magnetism (London, 1870)].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4937

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[22 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.326 (C: RS:HS 24.342 & draft: RGO 6.132.110)
Summary:

Thanking him for copies of books. People at Collingwood are gazing at the eclipse. Concerning the astatic needle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6690

From:
John Henry Dallmeyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.8
Summary:

Has made a trial of JH's lens but it was too large to be satisfactory. Regarding the 'graphoscope,' a new toy. Has been concerned with the manufacture of an improved form of opera glass. Present forms have many imperfections. Gives details of his own theories and sends one for JH's notice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10598

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.476
Summary:

Hopes he will accept a Christmas box, viz, a portrait of Sir William Herschel by Thomas Lawrence. It was given him by his friend Sir John Kirkland, who is sure of its authenticity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.386)
Summary:

Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].

Is correcting proofs [of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6691

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Dallmeyer
Date:
[25 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.340
Summary:

Thanks and a detailed description of the functioning of a pair of binoculars sent by JD to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8127

From:
Charles H. Weston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.393
Summary:

Moon not uniformly dark during last eclipse of sun. In 1858, Mr. Stuart saw same phenomenon, but JH, W. R. Dawes, and [James] Breen reported no such partial illumination. Suggests that this observation was due to refrangibility in medium, not to actual illumination of moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
26 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:

Sending two sheets [of Descent]. About one-and-a-half more will complete PLS’s task.

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