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DCP-LETT-6541A

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Summary:

A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9224F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:

Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6541

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 54
Summary:

Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.

Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6533

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
Paget ed. 1901 , p. 408
Summary:

"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5752

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.238
Summary:

Encloses copies of papers referred to in his previous letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE483

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
25, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE556

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
?? Jan 1869
Source of text:
189, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel4416

From:
Sir Henry Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.327
Summary:

Distributed a pamphlet on his theory of criminal punishment. Believes present system not effective. Draws favorable response.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9820

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.155 (C: RS:HS 24.272)
Summary:

Discusses the 'strange proceedings on the part of the Bombay Authorities.' Mentions actions in this regard by Carry [JH's daughter Caroline].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12502

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
Date:
1869-1
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.368 (C: RS:HS 24.245)
Summary:

Thanks CP for sending volumes of Astronomische Nachrichten. JH notes missing copies in his collection, and asks how he might best obtain these volumes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13504

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Secretary to R.A.S.]
Date:
[2 January 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0739, 0740, 0741; Reel 1089
Summary:

JH sends and comments on drawings and a letter [see JH's son's 1868-11-23] from JH's son John regarding the nebula around Eta Argus. JH seems disinclined to accept the claim that Eta Argus has changed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6543

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 287
Summary:

Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.

Reports six-toed pup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE555

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
187, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-6542

From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 37
Summary:

Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.

Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 37–38)
Summary:

Asks JVC to ascertain the age at which merino rams develop horns, and whether they grow faster or more slowly than in other breeds of sheep in which both sexes have horns.

Asks how JVC’s translation [of Variation] has sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE440

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 145, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE331

From:
John Herschel / Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 306, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-6544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sven Nilsson
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers)
Summary:

Thanks SN for the trouble he has taken for him [on Lapland reindeer horns].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel939

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1869-1-5 or later]
Source of text:
JHS 6.62
Summary:

Is a listing of some of JH's papers in an attempt to clarify how many were distributed, and then JH indicates how many he will send to addressee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6546F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[6–9? Jan 1869]
Source of text:
Cupples 1894, p. 165
Summary:

Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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