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FVM-70-04-25

From:
John Dallachy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 April 1870
Source of text:
MEL 92936, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7173

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 187
Summary:

Apologises for saying more than was necessary in his previous letter. Although he feels gratitude and esteem for CD, he execrates those who use natural selection to oppose man’s higher interests and impede his advance. Has seen Huxley’s Man’s place in nature for sale among a crowd of obscenities at most Italian railway stations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6863

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.170
Summary:

Has written to Kew Observatory to send on the photographs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7174

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 59
Summary:

Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2619

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.507
Summary:

Is sending solar autographs. Notes that in groups of spots the larger precede the smaller spots. Can JH form any theories from this?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2620

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
25?] April? [1870
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.517
Summary:

Detached postscript that discusses the margins of the two photographs, which seem to show that all planets are in the near hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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