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DCP-LETT-7142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
18 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 143: 330
Summary:

JC-B’s essays are the fullest CD has received. His observations on blushing closely agree with James Paget’s. Platysma and horror: Duchenne’s statement doubtful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7312

From:
Henry Denny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.491
Summary:

Thanks for his kind reply and transmittal of books. Has he ever written anything on volcanoes?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7143

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 9–10
Summary:

Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10726

From:
H. Temple Humphreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.79
Summary:

Many thanks for his kind note. Pleased to find he is in good health and taking an interest in the work of the youngsters. Hopes Alexander (JH's son) showed him his plan for a binocular reflector.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
23 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:

Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.

Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for Mr Ford’s woodcuts [for Descent]. Thanks AG for his kindness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1870-1]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Declines offer of book on physics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
25 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections; DAR 270.1: 24
Summary:

Thanks WHF for his very good lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7965

From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.232
Summary:

Encloses copy of R.S.L. statutes. G. G. Stokes cannot attend eclipse committee. Thanks for information about Mrs. Birtwhistle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8727

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.120
Summary:

Reports finding, while preparing a star atlas, that bright stars appear to be very dense in a region associated with the Milky Way but centered on the greater Magellanic Cloud. Because of a coming lecture on stellar distribution, 'I ... am saturating myself with Herschelian astronomy.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10270

From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.154
Summary:

Sending the continuation of one of his own reports he submitted to the Academy. Comments on various meteorites and the results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7307

From:
C[harles] De La Pryme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.486
Summary:

Is engaged in bringing out a diary of his ancestor. Would like JH's view on whether Isaac Newton's mind was ever deranged.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7149

From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 186
Summary:

Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1510

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
28 March 1870
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.131, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7150

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 76: B36
Summary:

His observations on mimicry in butterflies

and self-sterility in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7153

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 69
Summary:

Describes crying in an infant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7152

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 6
Summary:

He and Milne-Edwards are nominating CD for the Académie Française.

Sending book [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)].

Despite their differences of opinion, expresses his respect and admiration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7156

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 11–12
Summary:

Better news about the rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7157

From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 173: 39
Summary:

JO found fossil shells in the Amazon Valley, which discredits Agassiz’s claim of a glacial origin.

Would like Huxley’s opinion of the fossil horse’s tooth from Quito.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Summary:

Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.

Congratulations on his removal from London,

and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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