From Anton Dohrn 28 February 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Variation.
From his work on insect embryology he sees a great parallelism between insect and vertebrate embryology.
The zoological station is slowly advancing.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7520 |
From George Rolleston [after 22 February 1871]
Summary
Suggests alteration in Descent [1st ed. 7th thousand] in citing pagination of George Busk’s paper "The caves of Gibraltar" [Trans. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archaeol. 3 (1868): 106–67].
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 22 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7521 |
From Frank Chance [before 25 April 1871]
Summary
His beard is darker than his hair, an exception to CD’s rule in Descent [2: 319]. Encloses sample of his hair, beard, and whiskers.
Author: | Frank Chance |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7522 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 25 April 1871]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7523 |
From J. J. Aubertin 1 March 1871
Summary
Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;
reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.
Author: | John James Aubertin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7526 |
From John Tyndall 1 March [1871]
Summary
JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7527 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen [before 21 February 1871]
Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7529 |
From James Murie 2 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
He is "driven" from his post.
He has homologised the face muscles of cetaceans and man. Although the former do not show expression, the nose and upper lip muscles are highly developed.
Author: | James Murie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7531 |
From W. R. Greg 2 March [1871?]
Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 149–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7532 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 2 March 1871
Summary
Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 21–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7533 |
From A. F. Baillie 3 March 1871
Summary
Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.
Author: | Alexander Francis Baillie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7536 |
From J. J. Moulinié 3 March 1871
Summary
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7538 |
From Herbert Spencer 3 March 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7540 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [3–9 March 1871]
Summary
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3–9 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 56–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7542 |
From J. J. Aubertin 4 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for letter and invitation to come to Down.
Sorry about CD’s bad health; Brazilian climate has improved his own.
Sorry to hear Miss Butler is dead.
Author: | John James Aubertin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7545 |
From W. W. Reade 4 March 1871
Summary
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7546 |
From J. F. McLennan 6 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7549 |
From Arthur Nicols 7 March 1871
Summary
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7553 |
From John Tyndall 8 March [1871]
Summary
Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7556 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 8 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.
The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7557 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Murray, John (b) | (13) |
Reade, W. W. | (12) |
Galton, Francis | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |