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From James Anderson   [after 24 February 1871?]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.

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

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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

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Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.

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

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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

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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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