From M. B. Bathoe 25 March [1871]
Summary
Anecdotal comments on various sections of Descent:
Red Indians erecting their ears;
reasoning in a pet antelope, stag deer, and mongoose;
use of foot as prehensile organ by carpenters in India.
| Author: | Maria Burnley Hume; Maria Burnley Gubbins; Maria Burnley Bathoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 31–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7624 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … for Delhi. Kurnaul is now Karnal. The hog deer is Axis porcinus . The small Indian or …
- … 51 at Meerut 30 miles NE of Dehli, I had a Hog deer, similarly brought up from infancy & …
- … is coming thro’ the grounds” & in alarm for my hog deer ran to the portico— He had been at …
- … before seen a pack of hounds— Nei- are hog deer (in that country at least) ever hunted—as …
From Lionel Ashburner 25 June 1871
Summary
Gives examples of animal species in which adult males castrate or kill younger males.
| Author: | Lionel Robert (Lionel) Ashburner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10551 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … greater quantity of hairs about the neck. Hogs also are in the habit of killing the young …
From William Preyer 8 May 1871
Summary
Delighted that CD does not hesitate to follow his theory to its last consequences. "This is far more difficult in England than in Germany."
Wilhelm Müller in his new book [Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Rückenmarks (1871)], adduces many facts in favour of CD’s theory.
Various observations on the human ear. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 14 n.]
| Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 49–51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7745 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … reaches. But I shall soon get a hedge-hog. In Egyptian mummies I remarked some years ago …
To William Turner 28 March [1871]
Summary
Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.
At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7632 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … is easy to see that the spines of the Hedge-hog are moved by the voluntary panniculus. Now …
| letter | (4) |
| Ashburner, Lionel | (1) |
| Bathoe, M. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gubbins, M. B. | (1) |
| Hume, M. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Turner, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Ashburner, Lionel | (1) |
| Bathoe, M. B. | (1) |
| Gubbins, M. B. | (1) |
| Hume, M. B. | (1) |
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
Summary
As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more glad to get your Hog case,’ Darwin confided to Wyman, ‘as I …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
