From A. R. Wallace 6 July 1870
Summary
Thanks for the drawing.
E. Claparède’s review [of Theory of natural selection, Rev. Cours Sci. 7 (1870): 564–71] is weak.
Looks forward [to Descent] with fear of being "crushed under a mountain of facts!"
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B92–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7269 |
From J. J. Weir 4 July 1870
Summary
On mutations in rabbits.
Cytisus case is not a double graft.
Aggressive behaviour of birds of prey.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264 |
From John Murray 1 July 1870
Summary
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 376 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7259 |
From John Lubbock 16 July [1870]
Summary
The Census Bill is down on the paper for tomorrow; will CD restate how he wants to put the question [on cousin marriages]?
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7277 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 4 July 1870
Summary
Requests seeds of Nolana prostrata & Hibiscus Africanus, which have been matured in Germany or in the more Southern parts of Europe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 4 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264F |
To Albert Günther 15 July [1870]
Summary
Asks AG to identify the species of Triton Mr Ford has drawn.
AG’s help has turned CD’s chapter on fishes and reptiles from "much the worst" into "one of the best" [in Descent].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 15 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7276 |
From John Lubbock 23 July [1870]
Summary
Brought forward the "cousin question" in the House; read most of CD’s letter to the House.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7287 |
From John Lubbock 26 July [1870]
Summary
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7288 |
To David Forbes 31 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Forbes |
| Date: | 31 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.381) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7292 |
From William Farr 16 July 1870
Summary
Discusses the Census Bill and CD’s attempt to get questions on consanguineous marriage added to the census.
| Author: | William Farr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7279 |
To John Lubbock 17 July 1870
Summary
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7281 |
To William Farr 17 July [1870]
Summary
Writes concerning the questions on consanguineous marriages which CD wishes to have inserted into the Census. Discusses the form the questions might take and the value of the information that would be gained from them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Farr |
| Date: | 17 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 76–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7282 |
From David Forbes 30 July 1870
Summary
Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7291 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 16 July 1870
Summary
Sends CD some seeds.
Has been experimenting with Oxalis crosses.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7278 |
To John Lubbock 21 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 21 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Dr N. Hammond (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7286 |
To B. J. Sulivan 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks BJS for a journal and an interesting letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 2 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7263 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 [July 1870]
Summary
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 [July 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7218 |
To W. H. Flower 5 July 1870
Summary
Encloses a query from Camille Dareste [see 7262] about the niata ox skull CD gave to the museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | 5 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7266 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 July [1870]
Summary
WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7275 |
To Richard Kippist 28 July [1870]
Summary
Sends five papers from J. P. M. Weale for consideration by the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 28 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7289 |
| letter | (37) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Farr, William | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
| Gascoyen, G. G. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
| Farr, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Lubbock, John | (5) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (3) |
| Farr, William | (2) |
