To Asa Gray 15 March [1870]
Summary
The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".
Cat-like behaviour in dogs.
Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;
wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7132 |
From Francis Galton 15 March 1870
Summary
Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7133 |
From James Crichton-Browne 15 March 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Origin.
Encloses extensive, but incomplete, notes on expression among the insane, dealing specifically with blushing and the actions of the platysma and grief muscles.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 310, DAR 161: 323/2–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7134 |
To Edwin Ray Lankester 15 March [1870]
Summary
CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7135 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
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< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … < Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 301. 36. p. 315. This sentence also appears in Origin …
