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 |
From D. Thomas [after 11 March 1871]
Summary
CD is "bent upon linking the monkey race to us"; DT finds it striking that CD should so resemble an ape.
Author: | D. Thomas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13849 |
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 |
From Frederic Bateman 31 March [1871]
Summary
Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.
Author: | Frederic Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7155 |
From Leonard Darwin [after 4 March 1871]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7405 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [21 March 1871]
Summary
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7406 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [before 3 March 1871]
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 41–53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7470 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
letter | (135) |
Darwin, C. R. | (63) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (4) |
Alglave, Émile | (2) |
Aubertin, J. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (72) |
Murray, John (b) | (7) |
Ogle, William | (5) |
Tyndall, John | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (135) |
Murray, John (b) | (11) |
Tyndall, John | (6) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (6) |
Ogle, William | (5) |