From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A17–18
Summary:
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32)
Summary:
Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].
Pangenesis.
Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.
CD working on book on man and sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.124
Summary:
Thanks JH for commentary on RP's Other Worlds than Ours. Responds to JH's comments, accepting most objections. Acknowledges his major debt to JH's writings.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 May 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 695.462
Summary:
About a grant to support [H. J. R.] Petersen while he carries out the reduction of terrestrial magnetic observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[12 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.313
Summary:
The research shows no particularly 'maculiferous' area on the sun, but WS may, as WS requested, present 'data' to the R.A.S. Has noticed two new spots on helioautographs on 20 and 27 April.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project