From T. W. Wood 24 April 1871
Summary
John Murray has commissioned him to redraw two birds. Hopes to re-do all of the birds taken from Brehm’s Thierleben.
Author: | Thomas William Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7711 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 25 April 1871]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7712 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 April [1871]
Summary
Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7713 |
To Hinrich Nitsche 25 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks HN for photographs of his ears and one showing the form of the ears in a foetal orang. He will show them to a wood-engraver when a new edition of Descent is called for [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 17].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hinrich Nitsche |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Sondersammlungen (Sammlung Liebeskind/XI/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7714 |
To J. V. Carus 25 April [1871]
Summary
Corrections for Descent. Has sold 6500 copies in England.
Has finished rough draft of Expression, but will put it aside for the summer.
Will refresh himself with some curious observations on the response of plants to certain stimuli.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 62–63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7715 |
From F. T. Köppen 25 April 1871
Summary
Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)]. The effect of the growth of forest land on their increase; meteorological and climatic effects.
Also observations made on increase in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of weasels that fed on mice.
Author: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7716 |
From Francis Galton 25 April 1871
Summary
Upset to learn he has misrepresented CD’s doctrine on Pangenesis [in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–410]. Hopes that CD’s letter to Nature [3 (1871): 502–3; Collected papers 2: 165–7] will clarify the doctrine and attract attention to it.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 28–29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7717 |
To Henry Johnson 25 April [1871?]
Summary
Condolence on death of HJ’s daughter; "I know from old experience how bitter a loss it is".
Thanks for information about intelligence of dog.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
Date: | 25 Apr [1871?] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7718 |
From R. F. Cooke 26 April 1871
Summary
Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.
Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.
The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 396 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7719 |
To E. J. Pfeiffer 26 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for EJP’s suggestion that it is fascination rather than aesthetic appreciation that drives sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer |
Date: | 26 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Misc. 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7719F |
To Nature [before 27 April 1871]
Summary
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 27 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | Nature, 27 April 1871, pp. 502–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7720 |
From William Preyer 27 April 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 5th ed.
Comments on reviews of Descent by the Duke of Argyll and A. R. Wallace.
Lists the Darwinian professors at Jena.
WP’s work shows external ear to have no physiological functions.
W. Müller’s book not yet arrived. Will send Müller’s next works.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 52, DAR 174: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7721 |
From R. I. Thompson 27 April 1871
Author: | Ralph Ingham Thompson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7722 |
To Williams & Norgate 27 April [1871]
Summary
Requesting information about the publication history of Lavater 1820.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 27 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Scrope-Howe family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7722F |
To F. T. Köppen 28 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FTK’s locust paper ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
Date: | 28 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 1, 1 r) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7723 |
From R. F. Cooke 28 April 1871
Summary
Concerned with photographic processes for illustrations [for Expression].
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 397 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7724 |
From Williams & Norgate 28 April 1871
Summary
Information on the publishing history of a book [J. C. Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente, 4 vols. (1775–8)].
Author: | Williams & Norgate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7725 |
To William Ogle 29 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses action of the platysma in a state of fear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 29 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.394) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7726 |
To E. B. Tylor 30 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Date: | 30 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 37–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7727 |
From O. G. Rejlander 30 April 1871
Author: | Oscar Gustaf Rejlander |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.1: C47, C48, 176: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7728 |
Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |
Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (98) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (6) |
Galton, Francis | (4) |
Gray, J. E. | (4) |
Cooke, R. F. | (3) |