To George Henslow 7 December [1871]
Summary
Refers GH to vol. 2, p. 431 of Variation for the "perplexed conclusion" at which CD has arrived on variation and design. Has nothing to add to this statement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henslow |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (C.452) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8099 |
To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1871]
Summary
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7448 |
To Albert Günther 3 October [1871]
Summary
Thanks AG for answer about Galaxias.
Asks him to mention questions about the ears of Mus to other naturalists.
Will send another copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
AG has proved Ceratodus to be a "wonderfully interesting creature" ["Descripton of Ceratodus", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 161 (1871): 511–72].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7983 |
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- … 1871 and n. 6. CD refers to John Stevens Henslow . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 July [1871] and n. 6. CD was probably recalling an abstract of an article by Josef Schöbl ( Schöbl 1871 ) in Nature ; see letter from Albert Günther, 1 October 1871 and n. 6. See letter from Albert Günther, 1 October 1871 and n. 2. CD refers to Wright 1871a and 1871b, and to St George …
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| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
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