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 |
From Hinrich Nitsche 18 April 1871
Summary
Sends CD photographs of his atavistic ears and ears of a foetal orang in the collection of the Zoological Museum, Leipzig.
Author: | Hinrich Nitsche |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 41–2, 45–6, 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7697 |
To James Crichton-Browne 18 April 1871
Summary
Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."
Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 18 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7698 |
From John Wood 19 April 1871
Summary
Movement of hair; action of occipito-frontalis muscle.
Author: | John Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7699 |
From T. G. Cresy 19 April 1871
Summary
Thanks for contribution to fund for his brother’s widow.
Author: | Theodore Grant Cresy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7700 |
From W. R. Greg 19 April [1871]
Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7701 |
To Hermann Hoffmann 20 April [1871]
Summary
Obliged for letter about dog.
Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann |
Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7702 |
From H. M. Westropp 20 April [1871]
Summary
Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].
Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].
Author: | Hodder Michael Westropp |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7703 |
To St G. J. Mivart 21 April [1871]
Summary
"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 21 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7703A |
From Louisa Albano 22 April 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter;
inquires about CD’s intended terms for Italian translator of Descent; hopes to offer best terms herself.
Author: | Louisa Albano |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7704 |
To R. F. Cooke 22 April [1871]
Summary
Detailed questions about illustrations for [forthcoming] Expression.
Asks whether Times review has hurt sales of Descent.
The type on specimen page of Origin [6th ed.] seems clear, but lines are close. The cost is the great point for a wide circulation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 285–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7705 |
To H. M. Westropp 22 April [1871]
Summary
Case of the reasoning bear is analogous to the elephant blowing with trunk to bring object within reach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hodder Michael Westropp |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 350 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7706 |
From George Cupples 22 April 1871
Summary
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 111–12c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7707 |
From J. V. Carus 22 April 1871
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 98–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7708 |
To Francis Darwin 22 April [1871?]
Summary
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7708A |
To John Murray 23 April [1871]
Summary
Asks JM to lend him his copy of 1st edition (1806) of Charles Bell’s Anatomy of expression.
JM should tell him when he wants new cheap edition of Origin, so he can arrange his plans and time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 240–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7709 |
From St G. J. Mivart 23 April 1871
Summary
Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7710 |
To Elliott & Fry 23 April [1871]
Summary
Gives permission for the photographer to come to Down, but states that O. J. Rejlander has recently taken several photographs of him which would be available to purchasers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Elliott & Fry |
Date: | 23 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7710A |
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