To Francis Darwin [after 21 January 1871]
Summary
Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 21 Jan 1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7425 |
To Francis Darwin [28 February 1871]
Summary
Says Descent is "selling like Mad.––" Murray will print another 1500 or 2000 copies. Has received £630 for the 2500.
On Monday he visited Mivart, who is a charming man.
He seemed to be taken aback by CD’s points about the larynx and giraffe.
[See 7507 and 7519.]
He seemed to have forgotten CD’s argument regarding the formation of the greyhound.
Discussed the larynx and the silence of the Cetaceans.
If FD mentions any of this to [Marlborough Robert] Pryor, ask him not to mention it to anyone else "as it is perhaps rather a breach of confidence to repeat even to friends private conversation."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [28 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 2 and 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7520A |
To Francis Darwin 25 March [1871]
Summary
If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7626 |
To Francis Darwin 22 April [1871?]
Summary
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7708A |
To Francis Darwin 16 May [1871]
Summary
George [Darwin] plans a trip to America and would like FD to go [see 7757]. CD will gladly pay whole cost if the trip will not interfere with FD’s medical work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 May [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761 |
To Francis Darwin 21 May [1871]
Summary
CD will pay for the American trip if it takes place.
Asks whether FD can help him understand the eyes of cephalopods; is the structure the same as in the Vertebrata and are the parts developed from homologous layers of skin?
Has been pleased by a recent review.
Postscript: Is thinking of a cheap edition of the Origin [1872] in which he hopes to answer St George Mivart’s criticisms.
Asks FD whether he can get some references to good papers on cephalapod eyes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 21 May [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765 |
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
To Francis Darwin [6 November 1871]
Summary
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [6 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8054 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Apr 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7420 |
From Francis Darwin [after 4 March 1871]
Summary
Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7564F |
From Francis Darwin [after 16 May 1871]
Summary
He is waiting to hear about the requirements for the MB examination before considering the possible trip to north America.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 16 May 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761F |
From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]
Summary
Thanks for the cheque, and also for the offer to pay for him to go on a trip to north America with G. H. Darwin.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 May 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7761G |
From Francis Darwin [after 22 May 1871]
Summary
Explains about the attendance at St George’s hospital that is required for the MB examaminations, and how this would affect plans for a trip to north America.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 May 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765G |
From Francis Darwin [after 1871?]
Summary
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8715F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Darwin, Francis | (6) |