To ? 28 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7836F |
To Edward Suess 1 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.
Is sorry ES has suffered in health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Suess |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.397) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7792 |
To Thomas Bradfield 2 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the fact about the dog.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Bradfield |
Date: | 2 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Doyle, New York (dealers) (8 May 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7792F |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 June [1871]
Summary
Discusses homologies in various animal groups.
Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7793 |
To C. V. Riley 1 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].
Discusses mimetic insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7794 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 2 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 2 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7796 |
To John Murray 3 June [1871]
Summary
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 June [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7798 |
To John Higgins 3 June 1871
Summary
Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 3 June 1871 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7798F |
To Michael Foster 6 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 6 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7803 |
To F. E. Abbot 6 June [1871]
Summary
Sends subscription for the Index.
FEA’s article ["The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion", Index 15 Apr 1871] is one of the most striking CD has read.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Date: | 6 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7804 |
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
To L. H. Morgan 7 June 1871
Summary
Directions to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 7 June 1871 |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7808 |
To T. C. Eyton 8 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on dubious story involving natural history of Formosa. Suggests that Robert Swinhoe could give an answer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 8 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.407) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7809 |
To Gerhard Rohlfs 8 June 1871
Summary
Thanks GR, who made one of the most wonderful expeditions on record, for some notes which he will consider if he ever has to prepare a new edition [of Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gerhard Friedrich (Gerhard) Rohlfs |
Date: | 8 June 1871 |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7810 |
To Raphael Meldola 9 June [1871]
Summary
Mentions the difficulties in explaining the separation of sexes and Carl Nägeli’s view that the sexes of plants were primordially distinct.
Has been experimenting for five or six years to demonstrate that the benefits of crossing are the same as those derived from a slight change of conditions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 9 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7813 |
To L. H. Morgan 14 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks LHM for his introductions for CD’s sons and for his instructions about their route [for their U. S. visit].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Date: | 14 June [1871] |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7819 |
To F. C. Donders 19 June 1871
Summary
Thanks FCD for information about eyes [for Expression].
Must interrupt work on the subject to prepare new edition of Origin [6th].
Comments on gift of a new work by FCD [possibly "Die Projection der Gesichtserscheinung nach der Richtungslinien", Arch. Opthalmol. 17 (1871) Abt. 2: 1–68].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 19 June 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7824 |
To J. T. Moggridge 22 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks JTM for information on ants.
Mentions letter "from a Texas gentleman" Gideon Lincecum describing ants that plant seeds [see 3082].
Notes that fly orchid is unattractive to insects. Asks JTM to attempt fertilisation experiment with this plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 22 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.399) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7830 |
To Michael Foster 26 June [1871]
Summary
Invites MF to visit.
Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 26 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7832 |
To Briton Riviere 27 June [1871]
Summary
Discusses animal drawing showing expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Briton Riviere |
Date: | 27 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7835 |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Bradfield, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Bradfield, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Donders, F. C. | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Riley, C. V. | (1) |
Riviere, Briton | (1) |
Rohlfs, Gerhard | (1) |
Suess, Eduard | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |