From G. H. Darwin [20 April 1870]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Apr 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7046 |
From William Winwood Reade [c. 8 or 9 April 1870]
Summary
Brief observations on expression in Africa.
Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.
The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 or 9] Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7069 |
From Albert Günther [c. 9 April 1870]
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 9 Apr 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 242b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7144 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 1 April [1870?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr [1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7159 |
To James Crichton-Browne 2 April [1870]
Summary
Copy of Duchenne [see 7089] has not arrived; CD is concerned that it may be lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 2 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7160 |
From Francis Galton 8 April 1870
Summary
The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7161 |
To John Murray 9 April [1870]
Summary
Finds Academy contains valuable matter for his work.
Descent progresses slowly – will not be ready for press for several months.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 207–208) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7162 |
From Charles Warren Stoddard 11 April 1870
Summary
Writes of some observations on the Sandwich Islands.
Author: | Charles Warren Stoddard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7163 |
From Albert Günther 12 April 1870
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7164 |
From Julius Victor Carus 16 April [1870]
Summary
Would like to visit CD at Down.
[Fourth] German edition of Origin will be out in a few weeks.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7165 |
From J. V. Carus 18 April 1870
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to Down on day suggested.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7166 |
To Rudolf Albert von Kölliker 18 April [1870]
Summary
Has sent off specimens of Virgularia but fears they are in bad state. He could not find his dried specimens. Encloses notes that can be relied upon but may be of little use.
Also encloses a memorandum for Prof. K. G. Semper.
CD thinks Alcide d’Orbigny may have given name of Virgularia patagonica.
CD enjoyed RAvK’s recent visit [see 7164].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolf Albert von Kölliker |
Date: | 18 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | John Gittleman (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7166A |
To A. R. Wallace 20 April [1870]
Summary
Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 20 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7167 |
From George Rolleston 20 April 1870
Summary
Asks CD to look at the "special phylogonies" on pp. 138 and 152 of his book [Forms of animal life (1870)]. His comments are based on reading Haeckel, who is highly speculative and quite wrong.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7168 |
To Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell 20 April 1870
Summary
Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell |
Date: | 20 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7168A |
From Giovanni Canestrini 21 April 1870
Summary
Italian translation [of Variation] is delayed, but printing should begin soon.
Will send CD one of his writings in which he defends the natural descent of man [Origin dell’uomo, 2d ed. (1870)].
CD’s theory is making great progress in Italy and daily gains supporters.
Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7169 |
From St G. J. Mivart 22 April 1870
Summary
Is not prepared to express an opinion on man’s origin. On pure anatomical grounds he would form a family of the higher division of the primates, but if man’s intellectual, moral, and religious nature is considered, then "he differs more from an Anthropoid Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite".
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7170 |
To St G. J. Mivart 23 April [1870]
Summary
Thanks StGJM for prompt answer correcting inaccuracies in CD’s notes on StGJM’s opinions. Expects "universal disapprobation" when he publishes Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 23 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.375) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7171 |
From W. W. Reade 24 April 1870
Summary
Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7172 |
From St G. J. Mivart 25 April 1870
Summary
Apologises for saying more than was necessary in his previous letter. Although he feels gratitude and esteem for CD, he execrates those who use natural selection to oppose man’s higher interests and impede his advance. Has seen Huxley’s Man’s place in nature for sale among a crowd of obscenities at most Italian railway stations.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7173 |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Kölliker, R. A. von | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (4) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |