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Herschel12713

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hammond Chubb
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0128; Reel 1054
Summary:

Returns proofs with slight alterations. Encloses copy of letter JH sent to the Times on similar subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12821

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary [Cornwallis Lipscomb Power Herschel]
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0227; Reel 1054
Summary:

Thanks MH for copying reply from JH's son John to Col. Tennant's letter about 'ruinous' metric system. T. F. and Amelia [Herschel] Wade arrived in China. News of storms and shipping disasters. Denounces papal infallibility. Reviews Pierre Lanfrey's life of Napoleon. Tell JH's son John about changes in southern stars. Compares lectures of Chandra Kesub-den to sermons of John Wesley.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8972

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
London Times (Feb. 12, 1870), p. 10, col. 5
Summary:

Proposes a method of defraying the cost of coinage by means of seigniorage involving silver coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7102

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 334
Summary:

Asks who the gentleman is who is studying cattle skulls; RS has some that he would like examined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0712

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
11 February [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9 73
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel13789

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0139; Reel 1087
Summary:

Printer can still include JH's corrections to article [on gold coinage], but not JH's enclosed letter to the Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10931

From:
Henry James
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.277
Summary:

Received his note on the Great Pyramid when travelling in Scotland. Quoted in his reply to C. P. Smyth. Encloses a note from F. D. Wackerbarth of Uppsala. Will be sending him the volumes containing the photographs of the Sinai survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7103

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 48
Summary:

Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.

He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1105

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
12 [February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-6611F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Feb [1870-82]
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:

Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4992

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Hampden
Date:
13 February 1870
Source of text:
Hampden, J. (1870). In: Is Water Level or Convex After All? The Bedford Canal Swindle Detected & Exposed, Etc . Swindon: Alfred Bull. [p. 15]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6485

From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.251
Summary:

Is satisfied with the alteration he made in the lease and his bankers will be forwarding the premium. Thanks for the photograph of the contrivance for the ladder.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7105

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 173
Summary:

Louis Agassiz’s ill health means AG will not get an answer to CD’s query from him. Suggests CD ask Agassiz’s son, Alexander.

Has no details about the origin of the cat-like behaviour of his dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7104

From:
Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: 162–3
Summary:

About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5995

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 February 1870
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 247]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7106

From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 228
Summary:

Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7230

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.413
Summary:

Progressing slowly. Knows nothing about C. M. Hall or the whereabouts of his telescopes. Regarding the London Institution. Sees that U. J. J. Leverrier has been dismissed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001574

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Robert Dunn
Date:
15 February 1870
Source of text:
MM/21/8, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-7107

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 190
Summary:

Hopes CD is coping with the very hard winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1510

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 February 1870
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/10
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 32]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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