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DCP-LETT-7303

From:
Charles Lawford Acland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: A7
Summary:

Is studying Variation, especially Pangenesis. Reports earlier notion of Dr Robert Lee, that resemblance between husband and wife may be partly owing to her having man’s blood circulating in her during pregnancies; thus spouses most resemble each other in large families.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14136

From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0363; Reel 1087
Summary:

Forwards letter from G. A. Erman to JH and two papers by Erman. AM wants to visit JH to learn of prospects for Erman before AM leaves soon for zoological and magnetic observations in Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14137

From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0364; Reel 1087
Summary:

Will visit JH on 27 May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14138

From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 May 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0365; Reel 1087
Summary:

Apologizes for delay in responding to JH. Wrote to JH yesterday about AM's plan to visit Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2989

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1870]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #60
Summary:

Thanks JH for writing. Complains of obstacles to his work. Happy to see JH recognizes work begun by Blaise Pascal and continued by famed mathematicians. Asks JH to respond to AQ's wish to dedicate his book [L'Anthropométric] to JH with only one word: 'J'accepte.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3110

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.275 (C: Académie belgique: #58)
Summary:

Is working on humans and their proportions. Encloses brochures. Wishes to dedicate L'Anthropométric to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7349

From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1870
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 113
Summary:

Asks whether he may see CD before leaving England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3012

From:
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Aksakov
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
February 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 65-66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7136

From:
R. F. Albrecht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 33
Summary:

Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.

Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13728

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0084; Reel 1087
Summary:

Hopes JH's argument favoring pound sterling will be read by members of Parliament.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10598

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 December 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.476
Summary:

Hopes he will accept a Christmas box, viz, a portrait of Sir William Herschel by Thomas Lawrence. It was given him by his friend Sir John Kirkland, who is sure of its authenticity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9821

From:
Alexander [Hamilton-]Gordon
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.156
Summary:

Would like an order from Sir John to allow him to read in the British Museum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0625

From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
8 December [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0965

From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
20 December [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel7924

From:
Andrew Scott Waugh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
23 November [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.127
Summary:

Acknowledges return of R.S.L. certificate signed by JH. Anticipating visit with JH's son John, whom AW appointed to Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE606

From:
Annarella Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
9 Jun 1870
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 68, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-7125

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
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DCP-LETT-7193

From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 79
Summary:

Asks CD to review Wallace’s recent book of essays [Natural selection (1870)], particularly the new essay, which questions the applicability of natural selection to man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4526

From:
Archibald Campbell Tait
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1870-9
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.424
Summary:

Expresses concern over Church of England schools. Suggests appeal to raise funds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6466

From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.234
Summary:

Sends the mss. and two copies of the proof for JH to check. Queries one point. Please return papers to him when they have been checked.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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