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FVM-59-12-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
13 December 1859
Source of text:
N59/12603, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/5)
Summary:

Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].

Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.

Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 82–6)
Summary:

Sends anecdotes and drawings of pigeons for Royal Institution lecture. Offers parts on hybridisation and pigeons from his MS (if THH has patience to read them).

Has heard George Busk is converted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1667

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Unidentified
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1133; MS JT/1/T/6/1964, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195)
Summary:

Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6442

From:
Richard Christopher Carrington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.210
Summary:

The Council of the R.A.S. will be pleased to receive any further drawings of S. B. Howlett, but will not undertake to publish them owing to the expense.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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