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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

From J. V. Carus   17 February 1871

Summary

The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.

JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7485

From John Murray   18 February [1871]

Summary

Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.

Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.

Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 387
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7486

From David Forbes   18 February 1871

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Thanks for copy of Descent.

Author:  David Forbes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 164: 146
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7487

From V. O. Kovalevsky   18 February 1871

Summary

VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.

Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.

Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 169: 87
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7488

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

From W. E. Darwin   [19 February 1871]

Summary

Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [19 Feb 1871]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7489F

From Henry Holland   19 February [1871]

Summary

Thanks for copy of Descent.

Author:  Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 166: 253
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7490

From G. R. Crotch   19 [February 1871]

Summary

Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.

Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.

Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.

Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].

Author:  George Robert Crotch
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [Feb 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 161: 273
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7491

From James Crichton-Browne   19 February 1871

Summary

Thanks for Descent.

Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.

Author:  James Crichton-Browne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 313
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7492

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

From T. H. Huxley   20 February 1871

Summary

Thanks for new book [Descent].

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 166: 324
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7494

From C. C. Blake   20 February 1871

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Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].

Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.

May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.

Author:  Charles Carter Blake
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 199
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7495

From John Murray   20 February [1871]

Summary

A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 388
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7496

From Thomas Woolner   20 February 1871

Summary

Thanks CD for sending his book [Descent].

Author:  Thomas Woolner
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 181: 161
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7497

From Robert McLachlan   20 February 1871

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Thanks for Descent; will forward any information he has after he has studied it.

Instance of inequality in left and right anal appendices of caddis-fly.

Author:  Robert McLachlan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 89: 79–80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7498

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

From W. W. Reade   21 February 1871

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Various comments on Descent;

on suicide on Gold Coast;

on mulattoes’ not being prolific.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 89: 172–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7501

From George Cupples   21 February 1871

Summary

Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.

Author:  George Cupples
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 296
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7502
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