From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 August [1870]
Summary
Wishes to visit Down.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7302 |
From Adam Sedgwick 30 May 1870
Summary
Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.
| Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7209 |
To F. C. Donders 19 May 1870
Summary
Expresses sympathy [on death of FCD’s daughter].
Will be grateful for his paper and letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Date: | 19 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7194 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 11 October [1870]
Summary
Leaving England.
Asks CD to send four sheets [of Descent proofs].
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7342 |
From Alice Bonham-Carter to Emma Darwin 25 January [1870]
Summary
Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.
| Author: | Alice Bonham-Carter |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6576 |
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
To W. D. Fox 18 February [1870]
Summary
Invites WDF to visit.
Describes activities of his children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | Isle of Wight Record Office (Ac 2008/79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7113 |
From Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya and V. O. Kovalevsky 1 September 1870
Summary
Accepts CD’s offer to order books from the Royal Society Library.
VOK asks for information about W. B. Carpenter’s dredging expedition in the Porcupine.
| Author: | Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Софья Васильевна Ковалевская) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7314 |
From F. C. Donders 27 May 1870
Summary
Has finished the article [on the action of the eyelids in Ned. Arch. Geneeskd. & Natuurkd. 5 (1870), also see 7238]; summarises: the occlusion of the eyelids protects the vessels, and the eye itself, against the danger of pressure caused by excessive expiratory action. The weakness of the conclusion is that the extent of the danger caused by the pressure to the normal state of the eye is not precisely known.
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7203 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 12 December [1870]
Summary
Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.
Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.
Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7389 |
To Robert Garner 22 February [1870–1]
Summary
Thanks for sending him a hybrid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Garner |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115F |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
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].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1870
Summary
Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.
F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].
Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7272 |
| letter | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
| Donders, F. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Donders, F. C. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Garner, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
| Donders, F. C. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
