From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1870-1]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Declines offer of book on physics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
25 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections; DAR 270.1: 24
Summary:
Thanks WHF for his very good lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.232
Summary:
Encloses copy of R.S.L. statutes. G. G. Stokes cannot attend eclipse committee. Thanks for information about Mrs. Birtwhistle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.120
Summary:
Reports finding, while preparing a star atlas, that bright stars appear to be very dense in a region associated with the Milky Way but centered on the greater Magellanic Cloud. Because of a coming lecture on stellar distribution, 'I ... am saturating myself with Herschelian astronomy.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
W. K. von Haidinger
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.154
Summary:
Sending the continuation of one of his own reports he submitted to the Academy. Comments on various meteorites and the results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
C[harles] De La Pryme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.486
Summary:
Is engaged in bringing out a diary of his ancestor. Would like JH's view on whether Isaac Newton's mind was ever deranged.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 186
Summary:
Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
28 March 1870
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.131, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 76: B36
Summary:
His observations on mimicry in butterflies
and self-sterility in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 69
Summary:
Describes crying in an infant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 6
Summary:
He and Milne-Edwards are nominating CD for the Académie Française.
Sending book [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)].
Despite their differences of opinion, expresses his respect and admiration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 11–12
Summary:
Better news about the rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 173: 39
Summary:
JO found fossil shells in the Amazon Valley, which discredits Agassiz’s claim of a glacial origin.
Would like Huxley’s opinion of the fossil horse’s tooth from Quito.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Summary:
Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.
Congratulations on his removal from London,
and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project