To W. E. Darwin 15 March [1871]
Summary
Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11936 |
To Thomas Guthrie? 30 March [1871]
Summary
Sends correspondent a £25 subscription for George Cupples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Guthrie |
Date: | 30 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection MS C 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7151 |
To John Tyndall 1 March [1871]
Summary
Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.
Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 1 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7524 |
To John Tyndall 1 March [1871]
Summary
Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 1 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7525 |
To Ernst Haeckel 3 March 1871
Summary
Comments on Descent.
EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7534 |
To Joseph Wolf 3 March 1871
Summary
Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Wolf |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | Palmer 1895, p. 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7535 |
To Hensleigh Wedgwood 3 March [1871]
Summary
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Date: | 3 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 24, 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7537 |
To J. J. Aubertin 3 March [1871]
Summary
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John James Aubertin |
Date: | 3 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7539 |
To F. du C. Godman 4 March [1871]
Summary
Has forwarded FDuCG’s book [Natural history of the Azores (1870)] to Dr Hartlaub.
Asks about eyes of camel when the animal is uttering a loud sound.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Du Cane Godman |
Date: | 4 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.363) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7543 |
To the Linnean Society 4 March [1871]
Summary
Thinks J. P. M. Weale’s papers all require great condensation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 4 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society Paper SP1250) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7544 |
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 5 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Date: | 5 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7548 |
To J. J. Moulinié 7 March [1871]
Summary
Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 7 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 f. 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7550 |
To William Ogle 7 March [1871]
Summary
Will write again to Tyndall about odours.
Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].
Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 7 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7551 |
To John Tyndall 7 March [1871]
Summary
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 7 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7552 |
To John Tyndall 8 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 8 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7554 |
To John Murray 8 March [1871]
Summary
Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.
Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;
contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 8 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 222–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7555 |
To Arthur Nicols [8–10 March 1871]
Summary
The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Date: | [8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | Nicols 1883, p. 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7555F |
To Hensleigh Wedgwood 9 March 1871
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Date: | 9 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 64–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7560 |
To G. B. A. Duchenne about 10 March [1871]
Summary
Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne |
Date: | about 10 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 103–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7566 |
To Frederick Currey 11 March 1871
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Currey |
Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society paper SP1250) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7568 |
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Murray, John (b) | (7) |
Ogle, William | (5) |
Tyndall, John | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Murray, John (b) | (7) |
Ogle, William | (5) |
Tyndall, John | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (2) |
Duchenne, G. B. A. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Mason, P. B. | (2) |
Turner, William | (2) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (2) |
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