From G. H. Darwin [c. 17 July 1871]
Summary
Gives CD some information on wills.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 17 July 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6765 |
To W. E. Darwin 11 February [1871]
Summary
Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8208 |
To R. F. Cooke 30 January [1871]
Summary
Asks that review copy [of Descent] be sent to F. P. Cobbe.
Discusses mailing of presentation copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 10 August [1871]
Summary
Mentions experiments on Lythrum.
Thanks for list of seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7902 |
To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
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 L. A. J. Quetelet 11 January 1871
Summary
Sends diploma of election to the Royal Belgian Academy.
| Author: | Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7437 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 14 des Statuts organiques. — La correspondance de l’Académie se tient par le Secrétaire perpétuel, organe et interprète de cette Compagnie. Indicateur, N o 6804. 1 Annexe Bruxelles, le 11 …
- … 14 of the organic Statutes. — The Academy’s correspondence will be conducted by the Perpetual Secretary, organ and interpreter of that Company. Indicator, N o 6804. Annexe Brussels, 11 …
To R. F. Cooke 30 October 1871
Summary
Has completed corrections for Origin [6th ed.], but has received no proofs. Hopes it will be published without delay.
Has been reflecting on Murray’s suggestion to stereotype the Origin. Sees advantage in that it will make him stop additions and changes in style. Inquires whether each separate sheet is stereotyped and can be altered.
Asks whether any copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 232–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8034 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July [1871]
Summary
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 12 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7858 |
From Chauncey Wright 1 August 1871
Summary
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7890 |
To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 October 1871 ( Correspondence vol. 19). CD arranged for Wright’s review of St George Jackson Mivart ’s On the genesis of species ( C. Wright 1871a ; Mivart 1871a ) to be published by John Murray at CD’s expense ( C. Wright 1871b ); see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Chauncey Wright, 13 and 14 …
From W. W. Reade 12 September 1871
Summary
Prefers W. C. Wells’s explanation of the formation of the Nehro type to CD’s sexual selection.
Outlines his view of the origin of man by natural selection.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7936 |
To W. R. Greg 21 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on WRG’s MS on ratio of the sexes at birth.
Offers to send J. M. A. Thury’s paper ["Loi de production des sexes", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 18 (1863): 91–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Rathbone Greg |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 348 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7609 |
From Francis Galton to Francis Darwin 7 April 1871
Summary
CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A25–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7662 |
From E. R. Lankester 17 April [1871]
Summary
Has had Hinrich Nitsche’s pointed ear photographed. Nitsche also has photographed the ear of a foetal orang. [See Descent 1: 21–3.]
| Author: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 39–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7693 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 April 1871 ). The first 2500 copies of Descent had sold out within a week of the book’s release; John Murray had 2000 more copies printed in March and a further 2000 in April (see letters from John Murray , 23 February [1871] , 27 February [1871] , 9 March [1871] , and 10 May 1871 ). Descent was given a negative review in the Athenæum on 4 March 1871 ( [Leifchild] 1871 ). The Illustrated London News published a summary of CD’s writings, culminating in Descent , on 11 …
To Chauncey Wright 12 September 1871
Summary
CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] nearly ready. Friends have been much struck by it but say several passages rather obscure.
Glad CW coming to England. Will be delighted to see him at Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 384 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7933 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 July [1871] and n. 5. No correspondence with the printing firm William Clowes & Sons has been found; the added word has not been identified. See letter from Chauncey Wright, 1 August 1871 and n. 8. See, for example, letter from A. R. Wallace, 12 July 1871 . See letter from Chauncey Wright, 1 August 1871 . See also Correspondence vol. 11. …
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14). For James Orton’s discoveries, see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from James Orton, 4 January 1869 . Potamomya is an extinct genus of bivalve mollusc. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [18 December 1871] and n. 5. Hooker had written to William Ewart Gladstone , the prime minister, about his disagreements with Acton Smee Ayrton , first commissioner of works, over the governance of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 19 August 1871 (see Nature , 11 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Greg, W. R. | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
| Quetelet, Adolphe | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
| Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Wood, John | (1) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (3) |
