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DCP-LETT-4961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 1
Summary:

Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4966

From:
Charles John Robinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 188
Summary:

Has a small living at Norton Canon.

Will visit Charles Whitley next week.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 27
Summary:

Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6666

From:
Henry Coxwell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.369
Summary:

Thanks for letter. Regarding the use of oxygen when ballooning. Comments on other aspects of high altitude flight.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE445

From:
Mary Lyell
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
1866
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 151, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel4457

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Pritchard
Date:
1866
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.101 (C: RS:HS 24.182)
Summary:

Discusses opinions of Charles Darwin's theories. Doubtful that the day has shortened due to tidal forces since the earth's beginning. Alexander Herschel helps in the revision of William Herschel's double star catalogue. Alex is preparing to lecture at Glasgow University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1465

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
1 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.266-267, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4968A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 86
Summary:

A report on his somewhat improved health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11565

From:
James Liddell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.483
Summary:

Sending his observations on the effect of the moon on the earth's atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1466

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
5 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.268-269, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4968

From:
Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 and 7? Jan 1866]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202)
Summary:

CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4970

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
6 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311)
Summary:

Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.

Notes improvement in health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6600

From:
Louis Marie Joseph, Comte de Chevigny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.337
Summary:

Has received his letter and the sheets of the translations. Comments on this and outlines further plans for translating.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8795

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[8 January 1866]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:

Expresses concern that the present rate of use of natural resources and the increase in population may create serious problems in the future.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6307

From:
Samuel Birch
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.68
Summary:

Regarding the structure and surface of the moon as revealed by stereoscopic photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4973

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 41
Summary:

Comments on CD’s health.

Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.

Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.

His lectures on CD’s theory.

Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6665

From:
Henry Coxwell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.368
Summary:

Has been reading JH's letter of 1862 concerning aerial flight and would welcome any hints or suggestions from JH on this subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5)
Summary:

Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.

Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.

CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1602

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
11 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.115-116, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4974

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 181: 191
Summary:

Has made observations on bees’ cells. Their dimensions are not constant, nor do single bees make single cells; each one is a result of co-operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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