To Raphael Meldola 28 January [1871]
Summary
Thanks RM for information on case of hexadactyly [see RM’s paper, "Hexadactylism", Land and Water, 11 March 1871, p. 179.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 28 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7462 |
To St G. J. Mivart 28 January [1871]
Summary
He has found passage on false belief, Variation 2: 414, and does not think the whole with context is dogmatic. [Encloses copy of the passage.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 28 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7462A |
To A. R. Wallace 30 January [1871]
Summary
Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.
Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 30 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7464 |
To J. V. Carus 30 January 1871
Summary
Thanks JVC for his corrections. Will send other errata. Hopes to send remainder of vol. 2 [of Descent] in a fortnight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 30 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 21–22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7465 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
To Asa Gray 5 February [1871]
Summary
Sends questions on expressions of Laura Bridgman.
Has finished Descent. Believes that parts, like that on moral sense, will aggravate AG.
Working on an essay on expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7476 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 February 1871
Summary
Will send copy of Descent.
Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?
Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.
Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].
Pointed ears in the insane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7478 |
To J. V. Carus 15 February [1871]
Summary
Hopes German edition [of Descent] has not yet been printed because he has fallen into a most serious blunder [about sexual selection never acting on the young] on pp. 297–9 of vol. 1.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 15 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 23–24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7482 |
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 16 February 1871
Summary
"I have made a serious blunder in p. 297, vol 1 of my book [Descent of man]. Kindly inform me by return of post whether this is printed in Dutch; for if not I will send you a correction in M.S. There are also two short omissions to be made in Vol. 2 … "
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484A |
To John Murray 19 February [1871]
Summary
Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.
Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 19 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7489 |
To J. J. Moulinié 20 February [1871]
Summary
Sends corrections for French edition of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7493 |
To James Crichton-Browne 20 February [1871]
Summary
JC-B’s MS most useful.
P. Gratiolet’s observations on contraction and dilation of pupils of eye of a person in extreme terror. Has JC-B ever observed this? Expression has been his hobby-horse for 30 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7499 |
To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 21 February 1871
Summary
Thanks HHHvZ for a memoir
and answers some queries;
mentions some corrections for his Dutch translation of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Date: | 21 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(2)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7500 |
To John Murray 23 February 1871
Summary
Receipt for payment by John Murray of £630 for the first edition, consisting of 2500 copies, of Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 23 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7509A |
To P. L. Sclater [24 February 1871]
Summary
Will send F. Du Cane Godman’s book [Natural history of the Azores (1870)] as soon as he returns home.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | [24 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7511 |
To John Tyndall [27 February 1871]
Summary
Thinks JT’s discovery of a glycerine respirator is an interesting practical discovery. CD has been wondering about the hairs in our nostrils, but doubts that JT has explained their function, since there are hardly enough.
Will ask W. Ogle to observe hairs in nostrils of different races.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | [27 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 7 (EH 88205945) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7518 |
To Francis Darwin [28 February 1871]
Summary
Says Descent is "selling like Mad.––" Murray will print another 1500 or 2000 copies. Has received £630 for the 2500.
On Monday he visited Mivart, who is a charming man.
He seemed to be taken aback by CD’s points about the larynx and giraffe.
[See 7507 and 7519.]
He seemed to have forgotten CD’s argument regarding the formation of the greyhound.
Discussed the larynx and the silence of the Cetaceans.
If FD mentions any of this to [Marlborough Robert] Pryor, ask him not to mention it to anyone else "as it is perhaps rather a breach of confidence to repeat even to friends private conversation."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [28 Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 2 and 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7520A |
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 |
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Cooke, R. F. | (14) |
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