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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 December 1868
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3948-3976
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 169: 77
Summary:
The first half of vol. 2 of Variation is printed.
News of his marriage.
Sends portraits of Russian scientists.
Hopes CD will write his book on man and asks permission to translate it.
Moving to Germany for two or three years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
[22 December 1868]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 29 (1869), 84-5
Summary:
There having been reports of changes in the nebula around Eta Argus, JH sends the R.A.S. a letter from JH's son John [see JH's son's 1868-11-23] reporting his observations of that object. JH adds his comments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 December 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 91-92
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56
Summary:
T. H. Farrer’s paper is capital.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
23 December 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Russell Henry Manners
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.287
Summary:
Thanks for his communication regarding the reported changes in Eta Argus, and also Lieut. John Herschel's letter from Bangalore. These will form a valuable addition to the next R.A.S.M.N.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 105–7
Summary:
Is working on new edition of Origin [5th (1869)].
Asks JDH’s assistance on a problem posed by Nägeli on morphological differences that are of no utility to plants and hence could not be selected. CD wants to show that these differences do not support the idea of progressive development as Nägeli suggests.
Owen pitches into CD and Lyell in third volume of Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[25 December 1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H722
Summary:
Comments on a paper on the effects of lateral movement in diminishing the intensity of sound.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[26 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.244
Summary:
Comments on observations of meteors, comets, and the transit of Mercury.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.271
Summary:
Announces first volume of Physique sociale will appear soon. Discusses humans and law of nature. Says science is neglected in France.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
29 December 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/211, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 108—9
Summary:
JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].
Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[29 December 1868]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:
Has received HT's pamphlet on crime and its prevention and punishment. Praises it and questions some particulars.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358)
Summary:
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 159
Summary:
Observations that confirm CD’s deduction that half-bred Persian cats are fruitful one with another. Relates case of Persian characters reappearing in the offspring of a common cat which was the descendant of a half-bred Persian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
30 December 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.8-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 124
Summary:
Bill for electrotypes from Brehm’s Thierleben [for use in Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sven Nilsson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A41–2
Summary:
On the development of horns in Lapland reindeer. [See Descent 1: 288.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
