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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 November 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 87-88
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Livingston Youmans
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.444
Summary:
Encloses note from John Tyndall. Asks for interview. Wants to publish some of JH's papers in America. Purpose of EY's journal is to give double audience to scientific writers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
George Griffith
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 November 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 89-90
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
14 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018)
Summary:
Suggests FH’s graft-hybrid potatoes should remain with FH.
Sends addresses of Alfred Russel Wallace and Alexander Wallace for August Weismann.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14?] November [1868
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.309
Summary:
Writing about [hemianopsia] for doctor's thesis at Cambridge. Asks permission to quote report of JH's attack [see JH's 1868-5-4].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
15 Nov 1868
Source of text:
185, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
16 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £259 11s. 10d.
Obliged for JH’s good account of Francis Hardy’s management of Beesby Farm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
16 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018)
Summary:
Thanks for Botanische Zeitung notice of CD’s paper ["On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437]. FH writes clearest style of all German authors.
Asks that August Weismann be told about papers by Wallace and Bates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George A. MacFarren
Date:
[16 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.13 & 24.238
Summary:
Is obliged for GM's letter and for the trouble he has taken over JH's paper on musical scales. Object in writing this paper was to clear the ground as it were. Elucidates some of the points in his own paper and comments on parts of GM's paper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 26
Summary:
Thanks CD for kind and flattering testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
17 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Hudson Rogue (dealers) (Catalogue 9); Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 21 November 1868, p. 1218
Summary:
Is interested to know whether there are differences in the period of development of horns in sheep in those breeds in which horns are common to both sexes, and in those in which horns are confined to males.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Date:
17 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 4)
Summary:
Thanks AG for Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique [1862–7]. Refers to Lyell’s quotation from AG as "one of the most striking I have ever read on the affiliation of Species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henry Lewes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: D3–4
Summary:
Asks CD to propose him for Linnean Society.
Would like to have Lyell put his objections to GHL’s papers [Fortn. Rev. 9 (1868): 353–73, 611–28; 10 (1868): 61–80, 492–509] in the form of notes, so he can have them before him when he recasts his papers into a book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.310
Summary:
Received JH's permission to quote JH [in HA's thesis on hemianopsia] and describe JH's latest attack, including 'patches of coloured checquer work.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
18 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 185: 44, 56
Summary:
Will propose GHL for the Linnean Society.
Writes of his objections to GHL’s views.
Considers Weismann’s remarks on the importance of the nature of the organism as well as conditions of life in determining variability have much truth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
19 November 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 352
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
19 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/20)
Summary:
Congratulates EH on birth of child.
Mentions projected translation of Generelle Morphologie.
Comments on EH’s last book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte]. Criticises EH’s statements on palaeontology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 November 1868
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3948-3976
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 178: 198
Summary:
On corals and coral-formation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 149, DAR 84.1: 137
Summary:
Describes his tour of the Netherlands. Reports on some of the specimens he saw on his trip.
Discusses the coloration of hair in aged monkey
and sexual differences in bird species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project