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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 December 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 453
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
3 December 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 454
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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
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
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
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From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 December 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 203-204
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
8 December [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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