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Herschel10924

From:
Alexander K. Isbister
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.270
Summary:

Would like to reprint JH's paper 'On the Projection of the Sphere' in their Educational Times. Can he supply a reduced diagram?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0410

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel6243

From:
P. W. D. Baddeley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.4
Summary:

Points out error in his own book and enlarges on that point.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3075

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for skulls

and information about Ferguson.

Is working on rabbits’ skeletons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-03-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Heales
Date:
2 March 1861
Source of text:
R61/1673, unit 749, 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

DCP-LETT-3076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
2 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5)
Summary:

Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.

New edition of Origin to appear immediately.

Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3077

From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 154–5
Summary:

Will be pleased to review Asa Gray’s pamphlet [see 3068].

Is not surprised that blind cave insects are sometimes found in other dark places.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3079

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:
3 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks AM for his note. [Asa Gray’s] pamphlet was meant for AM if he thinks it worth accepting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3078

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 101)
Summary:

Making slow progress with Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3081

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Leidy
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
Summary:

JL’s approval of CD’s work is gratifying. Most palaeontologists despise it. Delighted that JL has some interesting facts "in support of … selection". Is sure his views will be partially accepted. Has never doubted that "much in my Book will be proved erroneous".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3082

From:
Gideon Lincecum
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1861
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (MS S.P. 604A)
Summary:

Reports on the habits of the cutting ant of Texas, particularly its habit of planting shade trees to protect its mound from sun.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239)
Summary:

Asks for a rabbit specimen;

inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3082F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Autogr.: Darwin, Charles Robert, Bl. 1-2 )
Summary:

CD is obliged for the securing of [Ferguson’s illustrated book of domestic poultry]. Since he has already been given a copy, may he return this one?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-03-05

From:
George Francis
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 March 1861
Source of text:
GRG/70/1/1 Letter book of the Botanic Gardens Committee, State Records, South Australia
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

Faraday3958

From:
William George Armstrong
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 March 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3959

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
6 March 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/2/89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3960

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
Date:
7 March 1861
Source of text:
RSC MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
7 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/6)
Summary:

Thanks for explanation of cyanosis and clubbed nails.

Hopes GR will work out point about mucus tubes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3084

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
8 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Obliged for offer to observe orchids.

Not surprised that AGM demurs to acceptance of his views. Discusses effects of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1770

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Murray
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
John Murray Archive, Ms. 41214, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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