Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
16 January [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 29
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 82: A44–5
Summary:
Returns CD’s MS [of entomological section of Descent] marked with suggested alterations.
Suggests qualifications about rudimentary horn in female Onitis furcifer [See Descent 1: 372].
Sends additional data on colour differences in sexes of longicorn Coleoptera [See Descent 1: 367–8].
Suggests a modification of CD’s view of female coloration that would bring him "nearly into harmony" with Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 323
Summary:
Refers to "Devonshire Man"’s attack on him ["Professor Huxley’s last new theory", Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Jan 1870, p. 6]. His intention to answer – a waste, except for political bearing of Celt question ["Professor Huxley on Celts and Teutons", Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan 1870, p. 6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Francis
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[22 January 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 106: B90–1
Summary:
Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[24 January 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 70
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Alice Bonham-Carter
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 240
Summary:
Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 141
Summary:
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
28 January [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 167: 27
Summary:
JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 122
Summary:
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
31 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 329
Summary:
Asks JC-B to return copy of Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] and sends some notes "as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 86
Summary:
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[February? 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[Februray 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 84
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Francis
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1870 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 13
Summary:
Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 February [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Mary Susan Parker; Mary Susan Mostyn Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 45
Summary:
Asks CD to be godfather to her third child [Maud Mostyn Owen].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 333
Summary:
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project