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Herschel10652

From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.26
Summary:

Is anxious to have an astronomical eye-piece based on JH's principles. Encloses communication from Messrs. Horne and Thornthwaite, who would like details for their employee, [W.?] Ackland, to work from.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE561

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Apr 1871
Source of text:
199, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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FVM-71-04-05

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 April 1871
Source of text:
No. 1167, unit 25, p. 353, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of a number of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7661A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Le Couteur
Date:
6 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 106
Summary:

Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-04-06b

From:
Marcus Clarke
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 April 1871
Source of text:
Letter no. 62/I.T.M.71, Outward letterbook 1870-9 pp. 167-169, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7660

From:
David Wedderburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 163, 167–9
Summary:

Sexual selection in deer.

Assemblies of black cocks.

Nests of spotted flycatcher.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-04-06c

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 April 1871
Source of text:
No. 1183, unit 25, p. 366, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria.Memorandum dated on basis of annotation on M to J. McCulloch, 25 March 1871 (in this edition as 71-03-25c)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7661

From:
John Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 145–6
Summary:

Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 336
Summary:

Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.

Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".

Thanks for photographs.

Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.

Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7666F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:

CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7662

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A25–7
Summary:

CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7663

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 98
Summary:

Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7664

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 99
Summary:

On some errata in Descent.

Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10653

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[7 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.361
Summary:

Is at present too ill to involve himself in any calculations necessary for making a good optical eyepiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC583

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
7 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.549-550, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7665

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288
Summary:

Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6102A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7668

From:
George Frederick Ansell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 105–8
Summary:

Anecdotes about a dog and cat evidencing "a high order of instinct".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-04-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
8 April 1871
Source of text:
MS papers 37, no. 581, folder 209, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7669

From:
Napoleon de la Fleurière
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 135
Summary:

Believes CD should answer the critical article [review of Descent] in the Times [of 7 and 8 Apr].

Moral sense and moral conduct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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