From Francis Galton [before 28 March 1872]
Summary
On colours and breeding of rabbits.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 Mar 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4730 |
From W. E. Darwin [3 March 1872]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Mar 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8220 |
From Alfred Espinas March 1872
Summary
AE, philosophy professor, is disposed to accept natural selection, but argues that it lacks direction. Suggests that direction would be given if one assumed the appearance of multiple advantageous traits in a single individual. Cites Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Claude Bernard, and Carl Vogt.
Author: | Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8231 |
From Ernst Haeckel 1 March 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 6th ed.
Has declined chair at Strasbourg.
Describes research on calcareous sponges.
Criticises Pangenesis.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8232 |
From David Forbes 1 March 1872
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8233 |
From A. R. Wallace 3 March 1872
Summary
Response to 6th ed. of Origin. CD’s answer to Mivart on initial stages of modifications is complete; the "eye and ear objection" is not handled so satisfactorily.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B109–110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8234 |
From Alexander Agassiz 4 March 1872
Summary
Thanks for new [6th] edition of Origin.
Is working on Echini.
The more material he gets the less easy it is to diagnose a genus or species. Has little doubt that "classification is nothing but the most arbitrary convenient tool, depending upon the material at our command at a special time".
Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8236 |
From Asa Gray 7 March 1872
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8237 |
From John Murray 9 March 1872
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 408 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8239 |
From Raphael Meldola 12 March 1872
Summary
Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.
CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8240 |
From W. W. Reade 12 March 1872
Summary
Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8241 |
From W. W. Reade 14 March 1872
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8242 |
From A. F. Boardman 18 March 1872
Summary
On how various human emigrations have supported the work of natural selection.
Defends the view that soil and air account for taller stature of westerners in U. S.
Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8245 |
From Gaston de Saporta 18 March 1872
Summary
CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.
Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8246 |
From W. W. Reade 18 March [1872]
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8247 |
From John Scott 22 March 1872
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8249 |
From Raphael Meldola 26 March 1872
Summary
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 89–90b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8252 |
From J. R. Martin 27 March 1872
Summary
CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.
Author: | John Royle Martin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8254 |
From Francis Galton 28 March 1872
Summary
Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;
describes a séance at William Crookes’s.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A46–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8256 |
From Thomas Rivers 29 March 1872
Summary
Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.
Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8259 |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Reade, W. W. | (3) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Reade, W. W. | (3) |
Meldola, Raphael | (2) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Boardman, A. F. | (1) |
Darwin, Amy | (1) |
Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Espinas, Alfred | (1) |
Forbes, David | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Martin, J. R. | (1) |
Murie, James | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Ruck, Amy | (1) |
Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |