Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
23 February 1870
Source of text:
DAR 245: 35
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0140.1; Reel 1087
Summary:
Sends copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
24 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:
Thanks JO for his The Andes and the Amazon.
Is sorry he has failed to get any information on the horse’s tooth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hammond Chubb
Date:
[24 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0140.2; Reel 1087
Summary:
Gratitude for copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy. Regrets that volume does not contain letter to the Times containing U.S. assay master W. E. Du Bois's testimony to integrity of British gold coinage, 'a most satisfactory answer to Mr. Segal's charge against it.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[c. 25 February 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 602
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
E. S. Newall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.119
Summary:
JH's kind letter and enclosures came when she was ill, which accounts for the delay in replying. Is exceedingly grateful for all the autographs. Her brother-in-law [R. S. Newall] has erected a 25" telescope at Gateshead and doubtless would be pleased to show it to JH. Would be grateful for any photographs to go with the autograph collection.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.320 & 1.321 (C: RGO 6.172.498)
Summary:
Is sending extract of a letter [included] received from R. L. J. Ellery, Melbourne[deals with observations of Eta Argus].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7:5 (EH 88205930)
Summary:
Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 February 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 423-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
27 February 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 421-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb and 1 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 82: B80
Summary:
Forwards part of a note [by Mrs L. Agassiz] asking AG to tell CD that Agassiz has never been able to secure one of the fishes sitting on eggs.
In P.S., AG adds, "Agassiz evidently regrets having abused you in former times."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 166–7
Summary:
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 146
Summary:
Transformism explains rudimentary organs, and teratology, which are otherwise inexplicable.
Looking forward to publication of Descent
and CD’s expected book on "Variation in nature" [see Variation 1: 4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.171
Summary:
Sends a copy of the Graphic. Is grateful for JH's letter to her son.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 61
Summary:
Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.
The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.299
Summary:
Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project