From James Anderson [after 24 February 1871?]
Summary
Sends two books detailing a new medical method that will produce "a state of health & vigour on every occasion & in every instance" and is applicable to "the entire circle of animated nature" [William Hibbert, Important discovery. Hibbert’s new theory and practice of medicine (1870) and The new theory and practice of medicine (1870)]. The volumes apply to animals and man. Subsequent books will detail the method for insects and plants.
[Letter erroneously addressed to E. A. Darwin, and forwarded by EAD to CD.]
Author: | James Anderson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Feb 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7407 |
From C. L. Balch [after 15 April 1871]
Summary
CD’s photographs have been sent to [J. W. A.] McDonald, the sculptor, who will make a marble bust for the Liberal Club of New York and a bronze or plaster one for sale; CD will receive a copy. CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Club, and
CB asks whether he could give them a few words of advice on a practical method of biological study for beginners.
Author: | Charles Leland Balch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 15 Apr 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7408 |
From Henry Holland [16 December 1871]
Summary
Sends CD a ptarmigan.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7412 |
From William Turner [1871?]
Summary
Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].
Author: | William Turner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7414 |
From Alexander Agassiz [before 1 June 1871]
Summary
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 June 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7415 |
From O. G. Rejlander [1871]
Summary
Observations on expression.
Author: | Oscar Gustaf Rejlander |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 189: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7418 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]
Summary
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Apr 1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7420 |
To Francis Darwin [after 21 January 1871]
Summary
Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [after 21 Jan 1871] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7425 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 January [1871]
Summary
Is infinitely obliged for a correction. "You men who do only or chiefly original work have an immense advantage over compilers like myself, as you can know what to trust." Wishes he had consulted PLS before using A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben woodcuts [for Descent]. PLS’s assistance has saved him from "endless blunders"; he now feels safe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7427 |
From Francis Wedgwood 4 January 1871
Summary
Depth of furrows in old field.
Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7428 |
From W. W. Reade 6 January [1871]
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429 |
From Federico Delpino 7 January 1871
Summary
Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7430 |
From A. F. Boardman 8 January 1871
Summary
More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.
Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7431 |
From Francis Galton 9 January 1871
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7432 |
From Francis Wedgwood 9 January 1871
Summary
Appearance and depth of furrows in old field.
Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7433 |
From W. W. Reade 10 January 1871
Summary
Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.
Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7435 |
To J. B. Innes 13 January 1871
Summary
CD has forgotten about S. J. O. Horsman and the church organ and asks for any information that will help him inform his solicitors in connection with a document he has received and encloses. Will not apologise for what he said, but is ignorant of what it was.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 13 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7439 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 January [1871]
Summary
Has received (from CD) the sheets of the second volume [of Descent].
He fears he has offended CD or someone in England and he begs to know his offence.
His brother is working at the Red Sea and wishes CD to know that he has evidence for the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates in their nervous systems.
Plans to go to Paris upon its imminent capitulation to help his sister-in-law.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7442 |
From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871
Summary
Meeting with CD postponed.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7443 |
To J. B. Innes 18 January [1871]
Summary
CD’s anxiety about being examined in court if Horsman [former curate at Down] brings suit. He doubts it will happen, but if so will defend himself to utmost.
Has pleasant recollections of his relations with JBI.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 18 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7445 |
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