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DCP-LETT-7471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 188–9
Summary:

Returns pamphlets.

B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?

Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.

Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.

The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7473

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 45
Summary:

Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7472

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 93
Summary:

Has left Paris because of the war.

J. J. Moulinié and Carl Vogt are at work on Descent, which CR plans to publish in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2266

From:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 February 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 207
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel10862

From:
H. E. Hubbard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.212
Summary:

Would like his views on the correct definition of a billion, to settle an argument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10809

From:
John S. Harris
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.162
Summary:

Queries regarding the red glow seen during an eclipse of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8741

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[2 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.351
Summary:

Thanks RP for sending RP's Sun. Suggests a theory that the solar corona, rather than originating in the earth's atmosphere, is produced by reflection from meteoric dust. Informs RP that he has completed a catalogue of all observations of double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5619

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
2 February 1871
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 31]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7474

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 385
Summary:

Encloses a letter [missing] from C. Reinwald, publisher of the French edition of Descent [1872].

Vincenzi [of Unione, Turin – publisher of Italian translation] has not yet paid the account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8742

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.130
Summary:

Raises objections to JH's theory of the solar corona. Discusses possible existence of extensive meteoric dust in the solar system. Requests permission to dedicate a book on sidereal astronomy to JH. Asks JH whether his father in later years always used a front focus for his large telescopes and whether he saw the supposed four additional Uranian satellites with his 40-foot reflector.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-8198

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 65
Summary:

Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7475

From:
William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 130
Summary:

On irritation of cutaneous nerves exciting responses in unconnected skin muscles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86)
Summary:

Sends questions on expressions of Laura Bridgman.

Has finished Descent. Believes that parts, like that on moral sense, will aggravate AG.

Working on an essay on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4961

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[5 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.347 & 24.345
Summary:

Regarding patents, and quoting the results of experiments by foreigners without acknowledging the sources.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2268

From:
Gavin Brown Clark
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 February 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 210-211
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7476F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 43)
Summary:

Does shut eyes when scratching himself. Will ask Langstaff about muscles used when playing flute. Is back at work but hobbling around.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2267

From:
Henry Eeles Dresser
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 February 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 208-209
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-02-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Samuel Bindon
Date:
6 February 1871
Source of text:
VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 116, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-02-07a

From:
Marcus Clarke
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 February 1871
Source of text:
Letter no. 29/I.T.M.71, Outward letterbook 1870-9, pp. 123-4, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel8743

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[7 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.352
Summary:

Replies to RP's objections to his theory of the solar corona. Informs RP that William Herschel's larger telescopes were used as front focus. Suggests explanation of his father's disconfirmed discovery of four additional Uranian moons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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