To L. C. Wedgwood 21 January [1872]
Summary
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]
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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]
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
Summary
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
Summary
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]
Summary
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
Summary
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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