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From G. H. Darwin   [20 April 1870]

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Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

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]

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CD should soon receive woodcuts.

R. A. v. Kölliker would much like to visit CD.

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?]

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"Your financial operations excite my envy beyond words." Reports on stock just received.

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

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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

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Arranges to come to Down with R. A. v. Kölliker.

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
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