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DCP-LETT-7210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 June 1870?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7228A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
13 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 93
Summary:

In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.

He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3449

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
'Chairman of the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society'
Date:
[13 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS MC.9.96
Summary:

Cannot attend Eclipse Committee meeting but suggests that an observer carefully look for planets interior to Mercury's orbit, which would, if existing, reach conjunction during total solar eclipses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-70-06-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
14 June 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 434
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7232

From:
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 123
Summary:

Sends maps of U. S. Far West for CD to follow explorations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Date:
14 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 146: 22
Summary:

Thanks for RAvK’s work [Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien, pt 1, Die Pennatuliden (1870)].

Asks whether muscles to quills of porcupine are striped. Are they homologous to muscles of ordinary hairs? Could unstriped muscles develop into striped?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 June [1870]
Source of text:
University of Redlands, Armacost Library
Summary:

Asks about birds erecting feathers when enraged or frightened. Interested in examples of expression in birds and animals.

Tells of the sheldrake dancing on tidal sands to make worms come out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7229

From:
Thomas William Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 147
Summary:

Orange-tip butterfly at rest imitates a flower.

The argus pheasant cannot be explained by natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
14 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy)
Summary:

When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-06-15a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
15 June 1870
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 208, no. 579, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7234

From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 132
Summary:

French translation of Orchids is published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.318
Summary:

Of toads in rocks and stones, and martins in blocks of ice under rivers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-70-06-16a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
16 June 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 435
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel10348

From:
Henry Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.231
Summary:

Cannot give a definite answer regarding liability on the Dock stock without knowing the Act of Parliament under which the East India Company was incorporated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6255

From:
Joseph Gurney Barclay
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.16
Summary:

Would he accept a volume of observations carried out at the Leyton Observatory?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2626

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.510
Summary:

Sends two copies of JH's 'macular conspectus.' Mr. Titterton was very pleased that JH approved of his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7235

From:
Thomas William Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 148
Summary:

Argus pheasant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-06-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 June 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 436
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel11547

From:
John Knox Laughton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.464
Summary:

Sending JL's book Physical Geography (1870).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7233

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.319
Summary:

Writes about JH's health; justifies writing by sending some curves prepared by JH's son Alexander.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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