From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 126
Summary:
Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Willam Odgers
Date:
23 February 1871
Source of text:
Z71/2347, unit 576, 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
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From:
John Morley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 February 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 389
Summary:
Descent publication costs, "including a heavy item of £126 for corrections" have been received. JM can now offer CD 600 guineas for the edition of 2500 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 249: 105
Summary:
Receipt for payment by John Murray of £630 for the first edition, consisting of 2500 copies, of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Ellis Dudgeon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.508
Summary:
Relating his recent experiments in dioptrics. Encloses a model of his air-lens. Is grateful for the reference.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C5–6
Summary:
Has devised a respirator for firemen by moistening cotton wool with glycerine and adding charcoal. JT suggests the nose with its hairs and mucus is a respirator that would give protection against diseases caused by floating particles. The presence of hair and mucus is thus explained by CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
