From Eduard von Eichwald 10 January 1872
Summary
Sends paper on the coasts of Alaska.
Wishes to sell his large Russian palaeontological collection.
Wants to get in touch with American (Mr Dall), who is going to study geology of Alaskan and Aleutian coast.
Author: | Karl Eduard (Eduard) von Eichwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8155 |
From Henri Apatowsky 11 January 1872
Summary
Asks CD whether he will find a translator and publisher for a paper Dr A wrote in 1870, siding with Carl Vogt in defence of CD’s view of descent of man.
Author: | Henri Apatowsky |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8156 |
To St G. J. Mivart 11 January [1872]
Summary
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 11 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8156A |
From Armand de Quatrefages 12 January 1872
Summary
Battle for CD’s nomination to the French Academy continues.
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8157 |
To J. E. Taylor 13 January [1872]
Summary
Thanks for sending his article in the Westminster Review [n.s. 41 (1872): 28–49] and the notice of CD’s work.
Natural selection is under a cloud at present, but CD expects that it will be resuscitated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Ellor Taylor |
Date: | 13 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 696) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8157A |
To Asa Gray 15 January 1872
Summary
Questions AG on earthworm activity in North America and would welcome information from northern Canada if AG has a correspondent there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8158 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 15 January [1872]
Summary
Obliged for QdeB’s efforts [to have CD elected member of Académie Française].
With regard to stress that QdeB lays on man’s walking on two legs, no one attributes much significance to difference in mode of locomotion between seals and terrestrial Carnivora or kangaroos and other marsupials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 15 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8159 |
To John Scott 15 January 1872
Summary
Is resuming the study of worm-casts as he believes they will bear on the denudation of land. Requests specific information on the relative number, size, and manner of deterioration of worm-casts in India.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 15 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8159F |
From J. J. Aubertin 16 January 1872
Summary
A friend of JJA’s wants CD’s opinion on whether the disease porigo decalvans (hair falling out in clumps) demonstrates the link between man and dogs and has continued to evolve with man after he passed out of his "hairy-animal state".
Capt. [Richard?] Burton disagrees with CD’s notion of beauty in the abstract, and would like to meet him.
Author: | John James Aubertin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8160 |
From Fritz Müller 16 January 1872
Summary
Has no objection to CD’s alluding to FM’s idea that sexual selection has come into play in mimetic butterflies.
Reports observations on other butterflies and on termites.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8161 |
To C. H. Morris 16 January [1872]
Summary
Is sending the requested photograph.
Mr Murray will send a copy of CD’s Journal of researches to L. S. Bouton [see 8107a].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Honoria Campbell; Caroline Honoria Morris |
Date: | 16 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Journal of researches (1860) R920 DAR) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8161A |
From Henry Huxley 17 and 20 January 1872
Summary
His father has gone to Egypt.
Tells of visit to circus.
Author: | Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 and 20 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8162 |
From P. C. Sutherland 17 January 1872
Summary
Has some birds which are allegedly the result of a cross between a common fowl and a guinea-fowl; describes their appearance, and will provide CD with likenesses.
Author: | Peter Cormack Sutherland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8163 |
From A. E. Dobbs 17 January 1872
Summary
Sends a pamphlet [not identified] in which he applies the principle of natural selection to the working of legislative institutions.
Author: | Archibald Edward Dobbs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8164 |
To W. W. Baxter? 17 January [1872–4]
Summary
Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 17 Jan [1872-4] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8165 |
To J. W. Dawson 19 January 1872
Summary
Thanks recipient for memoir on fossil plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Dawson |
Date: | 19 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8166 |
To L. H. Morgan 20 January 1872
Summary
Thanks LHM for his work on consanguinity. [See 7299].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 20 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8167 |
From Amy Ruck to Horace Darwin [20 January 1872]
Summary
Describes the occurrence of earthworms and the signs of earthworm activity in the neighbourhood.
Author: | Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | [20 Jan 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8168 |
From L. C. Wedgwood 20 January [1872]
Summary
Gives results of probing worm-holes with wire.
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 1b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8169 |
From Raphael Meldola 21 January [1872]
Summary
Discusses his paper on mimicry and natural selection [Land and Water 9 (1871): 321]. Believes natural selection tends to fix mimetic characters rigidly.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8170 |
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