From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0507; Reel 1093
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of letter and papers from G. A. Erman.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 180: 8
Summary:
About the insertion of a column on marriage of cousins in the census form.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Stodard Wyld
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 May 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 171-175
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
11 May 1870
Source of text:
V70/5248, unit 465, 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:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[11 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.123 (C: RS:HS 24.312)
Summary:
Thanks RP for sending RP's Other Worlds than Ours and supplies comments, some favorable, on numerous claims made therein, e.g., on RP's theory that Jupiter and Saturn are hot and to some degree luminous.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
Date:
11 May [1870]
Source of text:
Invercargill City Libraries and Archives (Alex Robertson Collection, vol. 12: A0444 S12450012)
Summary:
Thanks for HHV’s interest in the census [CD’s plan to add questions on consanguineous marriage to the census] on which CD hopes to persuade Sir J. Lubbock to speak.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.508
Summary:
Desires permission to present JH's 'diagram of "macularity"' to the R.A.S.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
13 May [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
In a fortnight will begin to arrange notes on expression. Asks for FCD’s conclusions about the contraction of eye muscles. Is interested in abstract of FCD’s experiments on "rate of travelling of the nervous powers".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 [May 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/13)
Summary:
Encloses part of letter from Fritz Müller on Passiflora, with seeds.
Is endeavouring to have included in next census a question as to whether the parents in each household are cousins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Patrick Nicol
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 55
Summary:
Answers to CD’s queries on expression; observations on the facial expressions of the insane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 May 1870
Source of text:
Box 6, item 4, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne.Letter not found
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 May 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 432
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.695.464
Summary:
Would support the application for a grant [see JH's 1870-5-12], but would like to see some changes in the way calculations are made.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0645.2
Summary:
Refers to several items of correspondence, and then comments on the calculation of Gaussian earth-constants to a higher power than has been done to date.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
15 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 147: 256–8
Summary:
Comments on WP’s biographical article on CD. Asks him to thank O. F. Peschel for his present of the publication [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project