From George Cupples 20 June 1870
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.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7237 |
From St G. J. Mivart 11 June 1870
Summary
Asks by what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes
and how the beauty of bivalves could have been produced by natural or sexual selection.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7227 |
From Louis Rérolle 15 June 1870
Summary
French translation of Orchids is published.
| Author: | Louis Rérolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7234 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 23 June 1870
Summary
Sends drawings of the foot of chicken showing swimming membrane.
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 193: 113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7242 |
To John Lubbock 17 July 1870
Summary
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7281 |
To William Farr 17 July [1870]
Summary
Writes concerning the questions on consanguineous marriages which CD wishes to have inserted into the Census. Discusses the form the questions might take and the value of the information that would be gained from them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Farr |
| Date: | 17 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 76–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7282 |
From David Forbes 30 July 1870
Summary
Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7291 |
To Hermann Settegast 29 September 1870
Summary
Thanks HS for a copy of his book [? Die Thierzucht (1868)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101, Bl. 1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7330 |
From Alexander Agassiz 22 October 1870
Summary
Asks whether he may see CD before leaving England.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7349 |
From William Ogle [before 9 November 1870]
Summary
Sends CD a paper dealing in part with animal pigmentation [Med.-Chir. Trans. 2d ser. 411 [check vol no!?] (1870): 263–90]. Discusses relationship between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants.
| Author: | William Ogle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 9 Nov 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7361 |
To William Ogle 17 December [1870]
Summary
Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.
Hopes to visit WO when next in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7394 |
To Albert Günther 13 January [1870]
Summary
Delighted with proofs of illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes AG is pleased with them, as they illustrate facts given on his authority.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7077 |
From William Turner 3 January 1870
Summary
On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].
| Author: | William Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B158–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088 |
From John Lubbock 27 February [1870]
Summary
Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: 166–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7118 |
To Hermann Müller 14 March 1870
Summary
Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 432, Krause 1884 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7131 |
From Francis Galton 12 May 1870
Summary
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7185 |
From Francis Galton 1 June 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for his help and encouragement in his series of experiments [to test Pangenesis].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7212 |
From George Cupples 8 October 1870
Summary
Delay in sending deerhound puppy.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7338 |
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- … Cupples, George Darwin, C. R. …
- … Darwin’s “Polly”, if Polly is goodnatured. I shall send a brief card of dietary &c—to fix up for the servants. He thrives well, in spite of the season. I am glad to hear of proofs—though truly sorry that they fatigue you. The excursion, I hope, will set this to rights. Believe me | Dear Mr Darwin | ever most truly yours | George Cupples Charles Darwin, Esq r . | …
To Albert Günther 23 March [1870]
Summary
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for Mr Ford’s woodcuts [for Descent]. Thanks AG for his kindness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7146 |
From Robert Francis Cooke 5 December 1870
Summary
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 382 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7387 |
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