Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
11 February [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9 73
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0139; Reel 1087
Summary:
Printer can still include JH's corrections to article [on gold coinage], but not JH's enclosed letter to the Times.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry James
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.277
Summary:
Received his note on the Great Pyramid when travelling in Scotland. Quoted in his reply to C. P. Smyth. Encloses a note from F. D. Wackerbarth of Uppsala. Will be sending him the volumes containing the photographs of the Sinai survey.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 48
Summary:
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
12 [February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Feb [1870-82]
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:
Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Hampden
Date:
13 February 1870
Source of text:
Hampden, J. (1870). In: Is Water Level or Convex After All? The Bedford Canal Swindle Detected & Exposed, Etc . Swindon: Alfred Bull. [p. 15]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.251
Summary:
Is satisfied with the alteration he made in the lease and his bankers will be forwarding the premium. Thanks for the photograph of the contrivance for the ladder.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 173
Summary:
Louis Agassiz’s ill health means AG will not get an answer to CD’s query from him. Suggests CD ask Agassiz’s son, Alexander.
Has no details about the origin of the cat-like behaviour of his dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: 162–3
Summary:
About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 February 1870
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 247]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 228
Summary:
Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.413
Summary:
Progressing slowly. Knows nothing about C. M. Hall or the whereabouts of his telescopes. Regarding the London Institution. Sees that U. J. J. Leverrier has been dismissed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Robert Dunn
Date:
15 February 1870
Source of text:
MM/21/8, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 190
Summary:
Hopes CD is coping with the very hard winter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 February 1870
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/10
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 32]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 142
Summary:
Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1870
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Sends specimens of Passiflora and seeds for T. H. Farrer [letter enclosed with 7188].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry H. H. Cameron
Date:
[16 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.317 & 24.298
Summary:
Advice and guidance on the path he is to pursue when he goes to university.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Swale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 324
Summary:
Sends CD some notes on the habits of the "American Blight Bird" in New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project