To Nature [before 3 April 1873]
Summary
Comments on article ["Perception and instinct in lower animals", Nature 7 (1871): 377–8].
Explains his contention that "many of the most wonderful instincts have been acquired, independently of habit, through the preservation of useful variations of pre-existing instincts". Cites examples: sterile workers of several species of social insects have acquired different instincts; movements of tumbler pigeons. Speculates that "many instincts have originated from modification or variations in the brain".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 3 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 3 April 1873, pp. 417–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8838 |
To G. H. Darwin [3 April 1873]
Summary
Anxious to have GHD come home because of his poor health. Recommends Huxley’s physician (Andrew Clark) – an advocate of milk diet.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8839 |
To F. H. Hooker 3 April [1873]
Summary
Thanks for present of
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 309) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8839F |
To J. D. Hague 3 April [1873]
Summary
Has sent JDH’s letter to Nature ["Perception in ants", Nature 7 (1873): 443–4].
Sons recall kindness received from JDH and others in America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Duncan Hague |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 394 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8840 |
To Nature [before 3 April 1873]
Summary
"The following fact with respect to the habits of ants, which I believe to be quite new, has been sent to me by a distinguished geologist, Mr J. D. Hague [see 8788]; and it appears well worth publishing."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 3 Apr 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 10 April 1873, pp. 443–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8853 |
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| Hague, J. D. | (1) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Nature | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hague, J. D. | (1) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
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.
Descent
Summary
There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ’. Endnotes: * Descent 2: 403: ‘When the principles of breeding and of …
