From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[Mar] 1870
Source of text:
DAR 185: 58
Summary:
Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 56
Summary:
On the expression of disagreeable surprise.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 78
Summary:
CD was good enough to send notice of his new book [Descent] for the first number of the Academy; asks for further contributions and suggestions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 171
Summary:
Experiments with Lapageria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Balfour Stewart
To:
John Peter Gassiot
Date:
3 March 1870
Source of text:
MM/21/81, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
4 Mar 1870
Source of text:
197, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Justus Liebig
To:
LB Thudichum
Date:
6 March 1870
Source of text:
MM/1/4, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 42–5
Summary:
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988)
Summary:
Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. S. Newall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.120
Summary:
Is grateful for the two portraits. Is sure that her brother would be pleased to show Professor Herschel his telescope. Let him know when in Gateshead.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 167–8
Summary:
Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.
Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].
Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.340a
Summary:
Asks JH to write to Earl de Grey [G. F. S. Robinson] stating JS's qualifications for position on Royal Commission 'for inquiring into the question of the Extension of State Aid to Sciences.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 183
Summary:
Will not be returning to London for a week; writes to save CD’s calling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 296
Summary:
HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H. Temple Humphreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.78
Summary:
May be interested in seeing the enclosed [probably RS:HS 19.229]. Outlines his proposals, which he hopes to get adopted in Ireland. Trusts the east winds are not affecting him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Denny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.490
Summary:
Inviting him to donate any copies of his works on astronomy, etc.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
10 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77)
Summary:
Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
R. S. White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1870-3-[13 or earlie
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.400
Summary:
Sports event set for first week in April. May JH's name be added to subscription list for prizes?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
R. S. White
Date:
[13 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.401 (C: RS:HS 24.300)
Summary:
JH will not join subscribers for prizes. Objects to so much emphasis on exhibitions of competitive sports, to the detriment of serious education. Feels young people benefit more from spontaneous exercise.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Wicksted
To:
Georgina Tollet
Date:
13 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 97
Summary:
Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project