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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Lange
Date:
April 1870
Source of text:
Lange Papers, Botanisk Centralbibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
Date:
[Apr or May 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 86
Summary:
Discusses the reasons for inserting questions on consanguineous marriages in the forthcoming Census.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B74
Summary:
"Your financial operations excite my envy beyond words." Reports on stock just received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.372
Summary:
Informs JH of plans for JH receiving 5 pounds of coca he had ordered.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[1 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.301
Summary:
Suggests reasons for doubting the distribution of bright stars that RP had reported. Responds to RP's query concerning a statement in Outlines Ast. Encourages RP's hypothesizing on star distribution.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
2 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 331
Summary:
Copy of Duchenne [see 7089] has not arrived; CD is concerned that it may be lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[2 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.302
Summary:
Asks AD's advice on an application JH received the previous day. Comments on JH's health.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 April 1870
Source of text:
No. 789, unit 19 p. 300 VPRS 1187/P outward correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
3 April 1870
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.121
Summary:
Reports on his studies of stellar and nebular distributions, discussing especially whether the Magellanic Clouds show a relation to the Milky Way stars. Speculates on whether recent studies on meteors bear on stellar formation and change. Stresses need for statistical studies in stellar astronomy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Nicholas Michell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.38
Summary:
Sends a copy of his own book, the Immortals, which he would like JH to glance at as the Herschels are mentioned.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Patrick Francis Robertson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.373
Summary:
Encloses letter giving charges for 5 pounds of coca ordered by JH [see PR's 1870-4-1]. Asks how PR should pay.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 April 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes that he is glad to hear of Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer's [WTTD's] appointment to the Dublin chair [of the Royal College of Science for Ireland, Dublin]. Has seen Dr [Edward Percival] Wright who is happy for WTTD to have access to, & make use of, the T[rinity] C[ollege] Herbarium. However, Wright wishes WTTD to wait a little before taking a more prominent position than himself so that 'matters will arrange themselves'. Wright is talking of getting leave for 2 years & going abroad, leaving WTTD in charge. JDH says that the vegetable products museum should be attached to the Botanic Garden, along with a Herbarium & Library, without which the garden will be useless. JDH cannot supply structural specimens of plants from the RBG Kew museum as all duplicates are sent to places which give things in return. Will be happy to give advice about Cape Flora & thinks it is a worthy endeavour to finish it. Notes that WTTD will probably not be ready to embark on the descriptive part of the flora, & therefore need the herbarium, before Wright leaves anyway.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[05 April 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 85
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
6 April 1870
Source of text:
V70/3385, unit 672, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A13–14
Summary:
The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 or 9] Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 36
Summary:
Brief observations on expression in Africa.
Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.
The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Duncan [Stewart]
Date:
[8 April 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0143; Reel 1054
Summary:
Comments on ability of eye to adapt to prismatic glass in corrective spectacles for double vision [see JH's 1869-10-31]. Heard of bad health of DS and John [Stewart]. JH is fighting bronchitis.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 9 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 242b
Summary:
CD should soon receive woodcuts.
R. A. v. Kölliker would much like to visit CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 207–208)
Summary:
Finds Academy contains valuable matter for his work.
Descent progresses slowly – will not be ready for press for several months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project