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DCP-LETT-6922

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 275)
Summary:

V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9615

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Fowler
Date:
1869-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.356 & 24.283
Summary:

Comments on the proofs of his book that he has received so far. Has been ill and not feeling like intellectual work, so would he request his printer to send no more sheets for the time being.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11634

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
Date:
1869-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.290
Summary:

JH responds to UL's concern about the Isaac Newton-Blaise Pascal forgeries [see UL's 1869-10-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2614

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
1869-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.289
Summary:

Sends [William Whewell's] 'Isle of Sirens' and an acknowledgement to it in 'skimble skamble Hexameters.' Is eager to receive solar photographs and will send others by Professor [George?] Morton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6921

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Chickens have arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1837

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
1 October 1869?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL RP 7777
Summary:

About corrections he is making on one of Lyell's books.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7056

From:
Stephen Paul Engleheart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1869 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 19
Summary:

Blushing begins as early as the fifth year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5751

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.237
Summary:

Regarding Dr. Thomas Andrews's Bakerian lecture and the gaseous and liquid states. Comments on this and his previously stated theory. Has seen Alexander Herschel and thinks he should receive more credit for his work on the Meteor Committee. Scientific education of young people.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6923

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 155
Summary:

Sends letter from Candolle [6915] proposing an experiment with seeds that seems excellent. CD has little time and strength but will do his best. If the staff at Kew could do it, it would be wisest to hand the whole lot over to JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/23)
Summary:

Mentions views of Sars on species.

EH’s work on Siphonophora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7887

From:
Thomas Warner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.90
Summary:

Sends proof sheet of JH's approval letter before it goes to printer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11308

From:
Urbain J. J. Leverrier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.213
Summary:

Regarding Michel Chasles and the Isaac Newton-Blaise Pascal forgeries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-69-10-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 October 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 405
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel5750

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[5 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.284
Summary:

Comments on liquid and gaseous states of matter and on colloids; appreciates EB's kind words about JH's son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online

WCP5236

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 October 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel9614

From:
Thomas Fowler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.355
Summary:

Is extremely grateful for his comments on his book and will try to incorporate them. His book is intended as an introduction only. Delegates prefer s instead of z.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6925

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
7 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Has forwarded the horse’s tooth, sent by JO, to Huxley, who may be able to identify it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6926

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A3
Summary:

Both sexes of Mononychus pseudacori and other Coleoptera stridulate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6928

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 144
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of CD’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].

Nectar-sucking birds fertilise tropical flowers.

Writing a "Dualistic apologia for Pangenesis" [see translation in Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8].

Homology of the orchid rostellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6929

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 56
Summary:

Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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