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
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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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