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FVM-68-12-05a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 358
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel4570

From:
Frederick Pollock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.175
Summary:

Discusses an experiment, described by JH in JH's Familiar Lectures, involving applying colors to paper. FP finds that his results differ from JH's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP4868

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
5 December [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6492F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Behrens
Date:
6 Dec 1868
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:

Sends his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6493

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 21
Summary:

Describes a supposed cross between a cow and a red deer or doe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6495

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 5
Summary:

Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6494

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 69
Summary:

Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 6
Summary:

Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6455

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7
Summary:

Hybrid geese.

Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.

Pairing habits of crows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3186

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Patrick Shanahan
Date:
9?] December [1868
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.201
Summary:

To JH's knowledge, PS's Royal Mint position bore no absolute guarantee of permanence unless he had been paying a 'superannuation' fund.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1455

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.73
Summary:

Asks JH to look at a paper on musical scales; comments on a paper by A. Prazmosky on polarization of light from the solar corona.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
10 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Does not think the supposed cow–deer hybrid worth investigating.

John Robinson [the curate at Down] reported to be walking with girls at night.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6263

From:
Redmond Barry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.24
Summary:

Sends him a vocabulary of Aboriginal dialects and University calendar. The response to his questionnaire has been very disappointing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6499

From:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A39
Summary:

On spurs in peacocks. [See Descent 1: 290 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1759

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Griffith
Date:
11 December [1868]
Source of text:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies: George Griffiths Autograph Letters Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel2437

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.291
Summary:

Asks JH to sign [C. P. B.] Walker's certificate for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.357)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information about sheep and cattle.

Mentions corrections for new edition of Origin [5th ed. (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4568

From:
Frederick Pollock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.176
Summary:

Thanks JH for reply to letter questioning color experiment in JH's Familiar Lectures. Will conduct the experiment that JH suggests in the book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6501

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 22
Summary:

Will try to get more information about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].

The rumours about John Robinson [curate of Down] cause JBI concern. He will seek to get the facts – will try to protect Robinson against malicious rumours, but if he is immoral he must go forthwith.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3428

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
12 December [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.413 (C: RI 556)
Summary:

Asks JH to review paper on blue color of sky, polarization of skylight, and polarization of light by cloudy matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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