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DCP-LETT-12379

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1870–81]]
Source of text:
DAR 105: 111
Summary:

Share dealings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13799F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1870–82]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (17 November 1995)
Summary:

Two letters have arrived for WED.

Joseph has had two teeth out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7055

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 141
Summary:

Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8704

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
District Health Office
Date:
[1870–82]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 165
Summary:

Gives opinion on the merits of Mr [Stephen P. J.] Eng[leheart (Darwin family doctor)]. Believes he would make an excellent county officer if elected to the district office of health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-02123

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
1870
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-02124

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
January 1870
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7068

From:
Charles Ottley Groom Napier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 228
Summary:

COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13855A

From:
Rowland Henry Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1870–82]
Source of text:
G. J. Romanes (1882): 330
Summary:

An instance of long memory in a horse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13859

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1870–82]
Source of text:
DAR 133: 1
Summary:

Printed acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1870–82]
Source of text:
DAR 63: 87
Summary:

Query [possibly for publication] on ridges and furrows in pasture-land that had been ploughed long ago. Gives directions for measuring ridges on sloping land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14761

From:
Edward Vivian
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0950.1; Reel 1083
Summary:

Mrs. W. Vivian is visiting south of France.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-02125

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
1 January 1870
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2269

From:
G. W. Royston-Pigott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870].
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.506
Summary:

Asks permission to send JH several articles he wrote concerning optics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6335

From:
Thomas Brassey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.97
Summary:

Is grateful for his comments on the pamphlet on Trade Unions. Hopes to produce some more on similar subjects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2617

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.513
Summary:

Thanks JH for drawing of solar maculae from 1854-61. Some hesitancy about the accuracy of [Alexander?] Wilson's observations and hypotheses. Sixty people wish to travel to Spain to see eclipse of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12843

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Martin
Date:
[3 January 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0248; Reel 1054 (Cdraft: RS:HS 25.15.26)
Summary:

Grateful for HM's sending J. H. Stirling's essay 'As Regards Protoplasm' (1869) to JH. T. H. Huxley overlooked allotropes of organic chemicals as possible origin of life. In this 'Biocratical state,' allotropes would not be alive, but would be 'designedly...fitted' to act as agents of vital processes under a causative power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7088

From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: B158–9
Summary:

On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6520F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Jan 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 18
Summary:

Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
4 Jan 1870
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 697); Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 2188, ff. 296-7)
Summary:

The Zoological Garden has only one old adult male of Limulus. When there were females, eggs were never observed.

Encloses a separate letter [7071] about AD’s scheme [for a zoological station].

Suggests AD be cautious [in his work]. "Caution is almost the soul of science."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7072

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
5 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks ADB for Limulus.

Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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