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Herschel12166

From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.24
Summary:

His colleague, [G. R.] Waterhouse, has passed an inquiry from JH to NM regarding a mineralogical character. It is a specimen of Obsidian, very high in iron content.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7485

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 78
Summary:

The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.

JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-02-17a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
17 February 1871
Source of text:
Z71/2063, 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

Herschel9721

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John P. Gassiot
Date:
[17 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.68 (C: RS:HS 24.355 & 356)
Summary:

Comments on R.S.L. acquiring Kew Observatory building for creation of magnetic observatory [see JG's 1871-2-13].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5832

From:
Alfred Brothers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.301
Summary:

Encloses photographs taken of the last eclipse. Draws his attention to certain aspects of the eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-71-02-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl Meisner
Date:
18 February 1871
Source of text:
Mscr. G III 3, 50, University Library, Basel, Switzerland
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7487

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 146
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8130

From:
George Mathews Whipple
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.396
Summary:

Sends prints of solar photographs taken last week at Kew, as requested by Warren de La Rue. Regrets that picture on 11 Feb. was unsatisfactory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7488

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 87
Summary:

VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.

Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.

Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3089

From:
John Morley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 February 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7486

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 387
Summary:

Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.

Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.

Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13771

From:
Julian Willis Abernethy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 140.4: 26
Summary:

A poem, "Burns to Darwin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7492

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 313
Summary:

Thanks for Descent.

Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7491

From:
George Robert Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 273
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.

Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.

Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.

Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7489F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39)
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-02-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Samuel Bindon
Date:
19 February 1871
Source of text:
VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 140, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7490

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 253
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 280
Summary:

Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.

Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel918

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[19 February 1871]
Source of text:
JHS 5.39 (C: 5.38 omitting the last paragraph)
Summary:

Mostly about how to deal with the implications of local attractions in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1870-11-17]; JH has had the mineral son John sent analyzed and sends the results. JH commiserates with daughter-in-law Mary's illness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7495

From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 199
Summary:

Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].

Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.

May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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