From Hugh Browne 17 April [1871]
Summary
Raises two points on CD’s view, in Descent [2: 229], on how aquatic birds acquire white plumage.
Also remarks on effect of will in certain human modifications,
on colour-blindness in his children,
and on ability to move his ears.
| Author: | Hugh Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7690 |
From John Morley 17 April 1871
Summary
Gratified that CD approves his analysis of CD’s views of moral sense. Does not think there is a fundamental difference between J. S. Mill (Utilitarianism [1863], p. 45) and CD.
His view of those who object to CD’s "new doctrine of the moral sense".
| Author: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 71–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7691 |
From Roland Trimen 17 and 18 April 1871
Summary
Man’s spiritual life separates him from other animals.
Why are moths attracted, often fatally, to lights?
Thanks for copy of Descent.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 and 18 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7692 |
From E. R. Lankester 17 April [1871]
Summary
Has had Hinrich Nitsche’s pointed ear photographed. Nitsche also has photographed the ear of a foetal orang. [See Descent 1: 21–3.]
| Author: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 39–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7693 |
From Andrew Smith 17 April 1871
Summary
On Hottentots’ blushing.
Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 109–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7694 |
From Hermann Hoffmann 17 April 1871
Summary
Comments on Descent.
Reports a case of protective coloration of bugs on Tilia
and observations on frogs fighting [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 281, 350].
Encloses drawings of chicken feet.
| Author: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7695 |
To Bartholomäus von Carneri 17 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks BvC for the present of his book, Sittlichkeit und Darwinismus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomäus von Carneri |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (Kryptonachlass of von Carneri) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7695F |
| letter | (7) |
| Browne, Hugh | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
| Morley, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Browne, Hugh | (1) |
| Carneri, Bartholomäus von | (1) |
| Hoffmann, Hermann | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
4.17 'Figaro', unidentifiable 1871
Summary
< Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was published in The Figaro in October 1871, and titled ‘A Darwinian hypothesis’. The image survives in a torn page in the Darwin archive, but it has so far proved…
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- … < Back to Introduction Yet another portrayal of Darwin as a tree-dwelling ape was …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … have recently spread over New Zealand, &c., &c. Page 417, 8 25th line, after ‘ …
