From:
Joseph Jopling
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.422
Summary:
Outlining a method for making star maps with a pyramid.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
1 October 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Sharpey
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
1 October 1860
Source of text:
MM/19/74, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1860 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 85: 39
Summary:
Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Wylde
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.439
Summary:
As editor for Griffin & Co., JW forwards latest proof for JH to check [see JW's 1860-9-22].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
2 October 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/18
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 202
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.230)
Summary:
Comments on letter from Jeffries Wyman.
Discusses reprinting reviews by Asa Gray.
Mentions views of W. S. Symonds on the geological record.
Discusses descent of turtles and tortoises.
The universality of variation.
Notes only a few species leave modified descendants.
Discusses Apteryx.
Variation among pigeons.
Comments on fertility among hybrids.
Does not agree that he makes natural selection do too much work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12)
Summary:
JW’s case of black hogs shows marvellous relation of colour and constitution.
Could JW get information about eyes of cave rat?
Was JW struck by length of hind legs of male cattle?
CD has long shared JW’s doubts that mutilations were ever inherited but Brown-Séquard’s case seems to settle question.
Is not case of cats with blue eyes being deaf very odd?
Spinal stripes on horse too common to explain in way informant supposes.
Believes Owen "goes a long way with us", though he attacked CD in Edinburgh Review.
"No one other person understands me so thoroughly as Asa Gray."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 397
Summary:
CD would have carried the public more if he had explained adaptations by multiple causes, some unknown and some well known, i.e., natural selection.
Discusses Hooker’s views of extinction on St Helena.
Work on antiquity of man suspended.
Stopped by 11th edition of Principles of geology [1872].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Nicholson
Date:
4 October 1860
Source of text:
Q60/9060, unit 748, VPRS 1189/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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.
Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.
CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.
Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.
Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.
Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.231)
Summary:
Discusses views of T. V. Wollaston concerning island species related to those of mainland; possible land connection between islands and mainland.
Comments on bats of Atlantic islands.
Plant extinction on St Helena.
Experiments on Drosera.
Bronn’s objections [to the Origin] at end of his translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Norman Pogson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.8
Summary:
Regrets that JH's son Alexander is quitting astronomy. Asks JH to support his effort to obtain position at Madras Observatory. Announces first project would be survey of southern heavens in completion of [F. W. A.] Argelander's new atlas.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 14 (EH 88205998)
Summary:
A poser: carbonate of soda produces inflection rather than contraction in Drosera. Possible solution: glands at end of hairs absorb as well as secrete. Fascinated by currents in cells after inflection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
6 October 1860
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 203, no 515, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 22)
Summary:
Wonders why the coracoid bone in the flightless Apteryx is so large when the clavicles are reduced. The clavicles are even separate in the ostrich. The large coracoid in reptiles is explained by the connection to the forelimbs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Norman Pogson
Date:
[6 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.9 (C: RS:HS 23.309)
Summary:
Supplies what is in effect a testimonial to NP's abilities for use in NP's quest to become director of the Madras Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[7 October 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.310
Summary:
Asks WS opinion of attaining a civil pension for N. R. Pogson in honor of his astronomical accomplishment.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Drummond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 162.2: 242
Summary:
Observations of Brunonia and a case of a malvaceous flower, which never opened and was self-fertilised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project