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Herschel7215

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.403
Summary:

Reasons why the sun has been so hot recently. Thanks for the paper on the scale. Comments on this. Sends a mathematical problem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6325

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 22
Summary:

The material [from F. Müller] makes the translation more like a new edition.

German entomologists are becoming Darwinists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 August [1868]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 143-146
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 219-220]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers)
Summary:

Asks JDH to obtain from Sven Nilsson information on whether, in reindeer species in which both sexes are horned, the horns are first developed earlier or later than in species in which males alone have horns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6)
Summary:

The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6326

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 227–8
Summary:

Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.

Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-68-08-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Grant
Date:
21 August 1868
Source of text:
Q68/11539, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inwards registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6328

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 41
Summary:

Sends a copy of his Osteologia avium.

Variation in pigs’ heads

and in Convolvulus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 85–8
Summary:

Pleased at success of JDH’s address. Has read several press reports.

Spectator pitches into JDH about theology ["Dr Hooker on the evidences", 22 Aug 1868, pp. 986–7].

Feels JDH has "immensely advanced the belief in evolution of species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6329

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A34–5, DAR 160: 220
Summary:

Discusses the development of horns in antelopes. Remarks on the variation within and between the species of Cervus and on their relationship to each other.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
Date:
24 Aug [1868?]
Source of text:
Sir Brooke Boothby (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for information. CD does not care much for more cases of striped asses,

but is pleased at the interesting case of the affectionate jackal that licks like a domestic dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
25 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.353)
Summary:

Thanks TCE for copy of his book [Osteologia avium (1867)].

Recalls visits to Eyton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2222

From:
Sir Edward Ryan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.466
Summary:

Wants information for Sir Edward Colebrooke on the involvement of his father [H. T. Colebrooke] in the formation of the Royal Astronomical Society. Cannot ask Charles Babbage because his memory is poor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6332

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch
Date:
27 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Interlibrium (dealers) (Catalogue 276)
Summary:

Would like to see reviews of book [Variation].

Health has lately been indifferent.

Cannot at present pledge to give [EK?] translation rights to next book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10207

From:
Rider Garrett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.93
Summary:

JH's notes and version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno has made him attempt a version in the original rhyming meter. Would like his comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3103

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.268
Summary:

Sends first pages of JH's work on theory of probability. Asks for modifications.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9371

From:
Lady M[ary] Egerton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 August [1868?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.123
Summary:

Many thanks for his article on the musical scale. Will try to understand it when she has more leisure.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14050

From:
Charles Sterry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0272; Reel 1087
Summary:

Death of William H. Barton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6332F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
29 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 1557, ff. 213–14)
Summary:

Hopes JJM can visit tomorrow and stay the night.

Would like to ask Carl Vogt if he is still in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10208

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rider Garrett
Date:
[29 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.94 & 24.225
Summary:

Has received her version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Did she know it has already been done in an almost perfect way by Mr. Ford, prebend of Exeter? Comments on various points of her translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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