From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 35
Summary:
Writes about the Carl Vogt and J. J. Moulinié translation [of Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H. Hotham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.208
Summary:
Is puzzled by two apparent contradictions in JH's recent book Familiar Lectures. Are they printer's errors? Was related by marriage with the late Sir John William Lubbock.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
R. Calvin Clapham and Robert Spence Watson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1867-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.160a
Summary:
Invite JH to give lecture series at Literary and Philosophical Society next winter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 36–7
Summary:
Never imagined that the facts about sexual selection could be new to CD. Thought fact that brightly coloured females build concealed nests and almost all those in which sexes differ remarkably build exposed nests might be new to him. Some problems remain. Sends his notes for CD to use if he wants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
2 May [1867]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:
CD has sent some revised proof-sheets and ordered the stereotypes [for Russian translation of Variation]. First volume is dull, but he hopes second is more interesting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. Hotham
Date:
[2 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.209 & 24.195
Summary:
Thank you for his letter. There are no misprints or conflicting statements in his Familiar Lectures. Explains the various points.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0505; Reel 1093
Summary:
Preparing for total eclipse of sun in 1868. Conferred with William Huggins about making spectroscopic analysis of red protuberances. Asks JH's opinion.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H712
Summary:
Asks JH's opinion on matter of purchase of expensive telescope for solar eclipse (1868) and other observations by William Huggins.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 184
Summary:
Asks whether CD will subscribe to a memorial for Richard Dawes [1793–1867].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 266
Summary:
Through Carl Vogt, he has received the right to translate Variation into French [(1868), preface by Carl Vogt].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.20
Summary:
Is uncertain if he has detected the lightlines on the solar surface to which JH has called attention, but there does seem to be something unusual there. No sun spots are visible just now.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
4 May [1867]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 4)
Summary:
Thanks LR for sending his works.
Correcting proofs of Variation.
Chapter on pigs and cattle derived mostly from LR’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[4 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.196
Summary:
Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.198
Summary:
Proposes to travel to visit FH next day to observe the sun with him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
RGO 6.122.177
Summary:
Is assisting in communication between G. G. Stokes and GA, about stereoscopic observation of eclipses; JH is not mobile enough to attend the next Board of Visitors meeting.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0463 verso; Reel 1055
Summary:
Describes problem with spectral lines in telescope while trying to understand William Huggins's results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[5 May 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H713 (draft RS:HS 17.66 & C: RS:HS 24.197)
Summary:
Comments on impossibility of increasing the intrinsic illumination of a source with a telescope; how to obtain the spectrum of red flames of the sun.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 f. 89)
Summary:
Returns ARW’s notes. He will work up subject much better than CD.
Apologises for the note of illiberality in his letter regarding ARW’s work on the colouring and other sexual differences in mammals.
Discusses laws of inheritance based on sexual selection.
He questions the extent of applicability of principles of protection and sexual selection to lower animal forms, though Ernst Haeckel has shown how protection may account for transparency and absence of colour in lower oceanic animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles C. Nelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.90
Summary:
His brother [John H. Nelson] is at Brighton, and may be coming to London soon. Bodily health improves but mental health shows no improvement.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 May 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/A3339
Summary:
Response to a letter from JH to G. G. Stokes [1867-5-5] seen by GA, on the problem of the effect of the telescope on illumination from a light source, especially related to a solar eclipse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project