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DCP-LETT-6300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Date:
[Aug–Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 52
Summary:

CD arranges for copies of some blocks [for use in Descent] from Brehm’s [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE552

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
?? Aug 1868
Source of text:
181, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2606

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[1 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.222
Summary:

Thanks WS for 'Genevieve' translation. Will not continue the Dante because a Terza Rima translation has been done previously. The sun is behaving oddly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10674

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.45
Summary:

Much obliged for his suggestions regarding the comet; comments on these suggestions. His own observations were made on the comet, not its tail. Would be pleased for him to visit his observatory when in London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6301

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 219
Summary:

Discusses peacocks and the rediscovery of the long-lost crested turkey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6302

From:
Max Johann Sigismund Schultze
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 57
Summary:

CD has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bonn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6303

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 331
Summary:

Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.

Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Max Johann Sigismund Schultze
Date:
[after 4 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 57
Summary:

Expresses gratitude for the distinguished honour conferred upon him by the University of Bonn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6305

From:
Ludwig Molendo; Alexander Wilhelm Hannibal Franz (Alexander) Walther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 229
Summary:

Send their work [Die Laubmoose Oberfrankens (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6306

From:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 98–9
Summary:

Is writing to Australia to answer CD’s questions about resemblance of tail-feathers of young and mature female kingfishers. [See Descent 2: 188.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10675

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[5 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.223
Summary:

Comments on WH's finding the carbon line in WH's spectroscopic examinations of cometary tails.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6307

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 224
Summary:

Coming on Saturday.

Baby and wife pretty well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1231

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
6 August 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.264, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1197

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
6 August 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.175-179, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-6308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
7 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 42; Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/985)
Summary:

Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.

Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".

Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6309

From:
George Henry Lewes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 99: 31–2
Summary:

Gratified by CD’s approval of his articles, which the public has not much liked.

Clarifies the obscure sentence CD criticised – forms having a different genesis can be similar.

Calls CD’s attention to Kovalevsky’s memoir on Amphioxus [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 (1868) no.4]. K’s views are all in favour of CD’s and against GHL’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6310

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 286
Summary:

Thanks for photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4184

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomson
Date:
[11 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.351a (C: RS:HS 24.224)
Summary:

Comments on WT's paper on geological time. Unsatisfied with the efficiency of tidal friction in retarding the rotation of the earth. Considers effect of external attraction on a rotating body to relate to momentum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6311

From:
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 220
Summary:

Sends work proving all elements formed of one substance: "Pantogen". Feels affinity with CD. His work will cause as great a stir. Has already been preached against. Asks CD for a note as a token of his sympathy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6374

From:
Dyson Lacy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 49
Summary:

Answers to CD’s queries on expression in natives of Queensland, Australia.

[Forwarded by Edward Wilson to CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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