From W. B. Dawkins 8 February 1871
Summary
The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7477 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 February 1871
Summary
Will send copy of Descent.
Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?
Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.
Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].
Pointed ears in the insane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7478 |
From Felice Finzi 9 February 1871
Author: | Felice Finzi |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7478A |
From Thomas Meehan 10 February 1871
Summary
Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].
TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7479 |
To R. F. Cooke 10 February [1871]
Summary
Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 10 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7480 |
To R. F. Cooke 14 February [1871]
Summary
Discusses presentation copies [of Descent]. Dallas returned proofs of index on Friday. Asks for John Stuart Mill’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 14 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7481 |
To J. V. Carus 15 February [1871]
Summary
Hopes German edition [of Descent] has not yet been printed because he has fallen into a most serious blunder [about sexual selection never acting on the young] on pp. 297–9 of vol. 1.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 15 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 23–24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7482 |
From R. F. Cooke 15 February 1871
Summary
Printing of Descent will be done this day. Cannot publish until next week.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 386 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7483 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 February 1871
Summary
Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.
CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.
Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.
Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.
Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 312 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484 |
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 16 February 1871
Summary
"I have made a serious blunder in p. 297, vol 1 of my book [Descent of man]. Kindly inform me by return of post whether this is printed in Dutch; for if not I will send you a correction in M.S. There are also two short omissions to be made in Vol. 2 … "
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484A |
From J. V. Carus 17 February 1871
Summary
The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.
JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7485 |
From John Murray 18 February [1871]
Summary
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 387 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7486 |
From David Forbes 18 February 1871
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7487 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 18 February 1871
Summary
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7488 |
To John Murray 19 February [1871]
Summary
Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.
Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 19 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489 |
From W. E. Darwin [19 February 1871]
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489F |
From Henry Holland 19 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7490 |
From G. R. Crotch 19 [February 1871]
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.
Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.
Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7491 |
From James Crichton-Browne 19 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7492 |
To J. J. Moulinié 20 February [1871]
Summary
Sends corrections for French edition of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7493 |
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