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DCP-LETT-6494

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 69
Summary:

Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 6
Summary:

Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6455

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7
Summary:

Hybrid geese.

Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.

Pairing habits of crows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3186

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Patrick Shanahan
Date:
9?] December [1868
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.201
Summary:

To JH's knowledge, PS's Royal Mint position bore no absolute guarantee of permanence unless he had been paying a 'superannuation' fund.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1455

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.73
Summary:

Asks JH to look at a paper on musical scales; comments on a paper by A. Prazmosky on polarization of light from the solar corona.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
10 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Does not think the supposed cow–deer hybrid worth investigating.

John Robinson [the curate at Down] reported to be walking with girls at night.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6263

From:
Redmond Barry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.24
Summary:

Sends him a vocabulary of Aboriginal dialects and University calendar. The response to his questionnaire has been very disappointing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6499

From:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A39
Summary:

On spurs in peacocks. [See Descent 1: 290 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2437

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.291
Summary:

Asks JH to sign [C. P. B.] Walker's certificate for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.357)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information about sheep and cattle.

Mentions corrections for new edition of Origin [5th ed. (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4568

From:
Frederick Pollock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.176
Summary:

Thanks JH for reply to letter questioning color experiment in JH's Familiar Lectures. Will conduct the experiment that JH suggests in the book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6501

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 22
Summary:

Will try to get more information about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].

The rumours about John Robinson [curate of Down] cause JBI concern. He will seek to get the facts – will try to protect Robinson against malicious rumours, but if he is immoral he must go forthwith.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3428

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
12 December [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.413 (C: RI 556)
Summary:

Asks JH to review paper on blue color of sky, polarization of skylight, and polarization of light by cloudy matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1456

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[12 December 1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H721
Summary:

Returns paper on musical scales; agrees with GS's comments on A. Prazmosky's paper [see GS's 1868-12-10].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000935

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
13 December 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/210, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel8359

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[13 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.160b
Summary:

JT's paper on polarization of sky light suggests that neutral points are functions of cloud density. This verifies JH's earlier explanation of blue sky color. Incomplete polarization. Cause of blue color in water. Corrects note on W. A. Miller's observations of rainbows.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6503

From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 36
Summary:

Apologises; CD is correct: the object his foreman found is not organic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6502

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 23, 23a
Summary:

Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.

Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3537

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[14 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.243 (C: RI 557-8)
Summary:

Thanks for paper verifying JH's prediction that explanation of blue sky color carries with it that of polarization of skylight. Involves ultimate link between chemical and analytical dynamics. Notes that 'neutral points' in sky polarization have yet to be explained; offers tentative explanation based on clues in JT's work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6504

From:
Lachlan McLean
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 16
Summary:

Describes an animal that is said to be a hybrid between a cow and a deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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