From George Rolleston 30 August 1875
Summary
Sends copy of his "Address [to the department of anthropology", Rep. BAAS 45 (1875): 142–56].
Notes criticism of remark by Walter Bagehot dealing with extinction of barbarians [cited in Descent 1: 239].
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 554 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10141 |
From George Rolleston 18 August 1876
Summary
Sends three of his anthropological papers.
CD understates his case when he says the mandibular wattle of the "Irish greyhound pig" has no analogue or homologue.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10581 |
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
From George Rolleston 29 December 1876
Summary
Studying anatomy of the Irish pig.
Emil Bessels’ paper is in Archiv für Anthropologie 8 (1875): 107. He connects a band of poor Eskimos encountered at Smith’s Sound with glacial man.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10737 |
From George Rolleston 9 May 1877
Summary
Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10956 |
From George Rolleston 16 August 1878
Summary
Sends a copy of a letter from Herbert Blakeway of Illinois, which accompanied a pig’s head with wattles.
Discusses the Castle Martin breed of Bos, the history of which shows parallels with the Himalayan rabbits.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11477 |
From George Rolleston 16 April 1861
Summary
Index of Origin does not refer to variability of rudimentary organs mentioned at pp. 149, 168. Offers references to Rudolf Leuckart and to Franz von Leydig to support CD’s point.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3120 |
From George Rolleston 1 September 1861
Summary
The embryology of the vertebrate nervous system may be an exception to the law of inheritance at corresponding ages.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3241 |
From George Rolleston 30 September 1868
Summary
CD’s doctrines apply to man’s mental organisation, but the soul is a different matter. Cites Dean Henry Alford, M. J. Berkeley, and Prof. [J. F.?] Ferrier.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6401 |
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 |
From George Rolleston 22 February 1871
Summary
Applauds CD’s expression of dissent from J. S. Mill’s view of differences of mental powers of men and women [Descent 2: 326–9]. Sends some corrections.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7506 |
From George Rolleston [after 22 February 1871]
Summary
Suggests alteration in Descent [1st ed. 7th thousand] in citing pagination of George Busk’s paper "The caves of Gibraltar" [Trans. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archaeol. 3 (1868): 106–67].
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7521 |