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To L. C. Wedgwood   21 January [1872]

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Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:  21 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8171

To Raphael Meldola   23 January [1872]

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Discusses the problems of mimicry as related to natural selection; the general variability of colour as a character; and the conditions necessary for natural selection to fix firmly a character.

Encloses a Fritz Müller letter speculating that organisms respond to certain colours because of the prevalence of those colours in their environment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  23 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8172

To Francis Galton   23 January [1872]

Summary

His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.

Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Galton
Date:  23 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8173

To W. E. Darwin   23 January [1872]

Summary

Discusses earthworm activity observed in old ploughed fields.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  23 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 34)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8174

From B. J. Sulivan   23 January 1872

Summary

Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 177: 297
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8175

From J. D. Hooker   24 January 1872

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William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.

Other family news.

No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.

Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 103: 103–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8176

From Thomas Stanley   24 January 1872

Summary

Wants references to the work of Julius von Haast and James Hector on New Zealand glaciers, which CD mentions in the Origin [6th ed., p. 335].

Author:  Thomas Stanley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 177: 246
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8177

To B. J. Sulivan   24 January 1872

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Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:  24 Jan 1872
Classmark:  Sulivan family (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8178

To William Bowman   25 January 1872

Summary

Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:  25 Jan 1872
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8179

From Raphael Meldola   25 January 1872

Summary

Discusses the roles of natural and sexual selection in producing mimicry, and the problem of explaining the cause of the first mimetic variation; considers the ideas of A. R. Wallace and Fritz Müller on this problem.

Author:  Raphael Meldola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 118
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8180

To J. D. Hooker   25 January [1872]

Summary

Heartily glad about Willy.

Has never had Zizania.

Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.

What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 218–19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8181

From Arthur Mellersh   25 January 1872

Summary

Reminisces on the evening he, B. J. Sulivan, and J. C. Wickham from the Beagle spent with CD, nearly ten years ago.

Hopes the mission at Tierra del Fuego will not "improve" the people to extinction.

Author:  Arthur Mellersh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 146
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8182

To W. E. Darwin   26 January [1872]

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Gives information on recent editions of Lyell’s works.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  26 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 138
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8183

To Raphael Meldola   27 January [1872]

Summary

Invites RM to keep some specimens as long as he wishes.

Recalls vaguely the mention of a butterfly species in which the male alone is mimetic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  27 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8184

To J. V. Carus   27 January [1872]

Summary

CD sends some sheets [of 6th ed. of Origin]. Informs JVC that he is having it stereotyped, so he can never again make any serious alterations. "The little strength left to me shall be employed on new works."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  27 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 78–79)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8186

To John Murray   27 January [1872]

Summary

Has corrected last page of index of Origin [6th ed.]. Sends instructions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  27 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 283
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8187

To John Murray   30 January 1872

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Requests that JM make stereotype plates of 6th edition of Origin available to D. Appleton. This will be last edition and CD is "extremely anxious" to spread his views.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  30 Jan 1872
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 272–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8188

From William Green   30 January 1872

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Calls CD’s attention to Andrew Jackson Davis’ work on the origin of man,

philosophy of evil,

the mode of producing rain at pleasure,

and who and what is God.

Author:  William Green
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 222–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8189

From John Ball   31 January [1872]

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Expands on a letter to Nature concerning the probability of the survival of a new variety in a given species. Differs with [F. Jenkin’s] argument, to which CD had agreed to a greater extent than JB feels it deserved.

Author:  John Ball
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Jan [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 47: 196–201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8190

To J. J. Moulinié   1 February 1872

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Encloses a letter to be prefixed to JJM’s translation of the Origin.

Expresses his satisfaction that JJM has undertaken the translation [of a fourth French edition] of Origin. Urges the use of the sixth English edition so as to include corrections and additions.

His interest in influencing the eminent men of science in France.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:  1 Feb 1872
Classmark:  Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library); Paul C. Richards (dealer) (Cat. 241)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8191
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