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DCP-LETT-7115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 164–6
Summary:

Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.

A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1107

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
22 [February] 1870
Source of text:
DAR 245: 34
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-7115F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Garner
Date:
22 Feb [1870-1]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844 )
Summary:

Thanks for sending him a hybrid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
22 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (17 March 1995); Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1 October 1953)
Summary:

"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.

I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1108

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
23 February 1870
Source of text:
DAR 245: 35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel13790

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0140.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
24 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Thanks JO for his The Andes and the Amazon.

Is sorry he has failed to get any information on the horse’s tooth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13791

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hammond Chubb
Date:
[24 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0140.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Gratitude for copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy. Regrets that volume does not contain letter to the Times containing U.S. assay master W. E. Du Bois's testimony to integrity of British gold coinage, 'a most satisfactory answer to Mr. Segal's charge against it.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-1317

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[c. 25 February 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 602
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel12262

From:
E. S. Newall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.119
Summary:

JH's kind letter and enclosures came when she was ill, which accounts for the delay in replying. Is exceedingly grateful for all the autographs. Her brother-in-law [R. S. Newall] has erected a 25" telescope at Gateshead and doubtless would be pleased to show it to JH. Would be grateful for any photographs to go with the autograph collection.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4932

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.320 & 1.321 (C: RGO 6.172.498)
Summary:

Is sending extract of a letter [included] received from R. L. J. Ellery, Melbourne[deals with observations of Eta Argus].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7117

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7:5 (EH 88205930)
Summary:

Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.

Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-02-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 February 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 423-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-02-27a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
27 February 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 421-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7119

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb and 1 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 82: B80
Summary:

Forwards part of a note [by Mrs L. Agassiz] asking AG to tell CD that Agassiz has never been able to secure one of the fishes sitting on eggs.

In P.S., AG adds, "Agassiz evidently regrets having abused you in former times."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7118

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 166–7
Summary:

Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7120

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 146
Summary:

Transformism explains rudimentary organs, and teratology, which are otherwise inexplicable.

Looking forward to publication of Descent

and CD’s expected book on "Variation in nature" [see Variation 1: 4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6406

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.171
Summary:

Sends a copy of the Graphic. Is grateful for JH's letter to her son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7121

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 61
Summary:

Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.

The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.299
Summary:

Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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