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From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
22 Jan 1870?
Source of text:
MSL 5 / 126, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 106: B90–1
Summary:

Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 January 1870
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B90-91
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 197
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 249-250]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.228
Summary:

Regarding the various methods of levying the gas rate for street lighting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John S. Bourne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0115; Reel 1087
Summary:

Appreciation of JH's arguments in favor of pound sterling.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[24 January 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Gellibrand Hubbard
Date:
[24 January 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0199; Reel 1054
Summary:

Responds to Hubbard's queries about JH's "Half Dozen Propositions on the Gold Coinage." Quantity of sterling required to conduct wholesale and retail transactions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alice Bonham-Carter
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 240
Summary:

Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Hampden
Date:
25 January [1870]
Source of text:
Hampden, J. (1870). In: Is Water Level or Convex After All? The Bedford Canal Swindle Detected & Exposed, Etc . Swindon: Alfred Bull. [p. 15]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 141
Summary:

Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 January [1870]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 198-199
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 250-251]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.229
Summary:

Further regarding the various ways of levying gas rates. It appears that the method adopted at Hawkhurst is incorrect.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
John Dallachy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 January 1870
Source of text:
National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.MS filed with specimen of Helmholtzia acorifolia (MEL 3439) collected by Dallachy and named by M (B66.12.04, p. 203)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].

Groans over [what is said about] man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Hermann August Hagen
Date:
26 January 1870
Source of text:
Ernst Mayer Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: bMu 2900.10.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William Archer
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 January 1870
Source of text:
A7/1/1(1) Archer letter abstract books, University of Tasmania Archives, Hobart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Gellibrand Hubbard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0281; Reel 1087
Summary:

Secretary to Bank of England will soon write to JH for permission to include JH's revised 'Half Dozen Propositions Regarding the Gold Coinage' at end of Bank's collection of papers on coinage controversy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
28 January [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
28 January 1870
Source of text:
V70/837, unit 695, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 167: 27
Summary:

JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project