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Herschel7790

From:
Thomas Francis Wade
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.6
Summary:

Received JH's note. TW's wife Amelia [Herschel] and baby fared poorly in Panama and California. China better now than in 1853-65. Constitution flimsy but still vital. Describes 'Mahometan insurrection.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7236

From:
Joachim Barrande
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 44–5
Summary:

Encloses a copy of a letter he has written to a French geologist. In it he raises objections to evolutionary theory:

why are corals inadequately represented in the fossil record?

How can one explain the widespread appearance and then disappearance of groups like the trilobites?

If Mollusca and Articulata have a common ancestor, why are not ancient forms more akin than present ones?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7237

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 142–3
Summary:

Will send CD a deerhound puppy.

Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 June [1870]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269)
Summary:

Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
21 June 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on translation of FCD’s paper ["On the action of the eyelids", Arch. Med. 5 (1870): 20–38].

Speculates that closing eyelids may protect eyes from vibrations.

Discusses publication of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE607

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Annarella Smyth
Date:
21 Jun 1870
Source of text:
Somerville College Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-7239

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 322
Summary:

Reports "shindy" at Oxford over persons proposed for doctorate. Pusey assented to CD’s being "doctored" to keep out seven worse devils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7240

From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 133
Summary:

Copies of the French translation of Orchids were sent to C. V. Naudin, Quatrefages de Bréau, and Charles Martins at CD’s request and to Duchartre, Brongniart, Baillon, Lecoq, Godron, and Alphonse de Candolle on Rérolle’s initiative.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7240F

From:
John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 168v
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
23 June [1870]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/24)
Summary:

Comments on new edition of EH’s book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, 2d ed. (1870)].

Mentions his own book [Descent].

Visit by Kölliker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7242

From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 193: 113–14
Summary:

Sends drawings of the foot of chicken showing swimming membrane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1535

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 June 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7243

From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 19
Summary:

Publication Committee of Zoological Society has granted CD use of woodblock from the Society’s Proceedings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2628

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.511
Summary:

Thanks JH for the drawings. Will send new solar autographs showing macula. Is working on the autographic series of the activity of the sun during its 11 year period.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7234

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.415
Summary:

Is creeping along slowly like Alcuin's snail. Curvers are very curious. Informs him where there is an account of Coca. Comments on this as a tonic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7245

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A21–2
Summary:

Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5927

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 June 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 181
Summary:

Sets a time for CD to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4)
Summary:

Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].

Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7245A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Bates
Date:
26 June [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 121
Summary:

Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6407

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.172
Summary:

Has had a visit from Alick (JH's son Alexander) and his friends. Sends her latest photograph.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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