To Horace Benge Dobell 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].
Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.
How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.
Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3990 |
To H. B. Dobell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for information [on regeneration quotation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 389 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4030 |
To H. B. Dobell 21 April [1863]
Summary
CD thinks HBD’s tables would be a considerable gain because "the importance of hereditary transmission can hardly be exaggerated from every point of view". Makes suggestions.
Asks him to send any remarkable cases of inheritance to him and, as well, any case of regrowth of amputated additional digit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 21 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 6 (photocopy); Legends (dealers) (catalogue 2, 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4117 |
To H. B. Dobell 13 May [1863]
Summary
The [genealogical] table seems excellent. Would be obliged for any further information about the children of the cousins – the case surprises CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 13 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4162 |
From H. B. Dobell 5 March 1863
Summary
At CD’s request HBD has traced the quotation; it is on regeneration from Charles White in W. B. Carpenter’s Comparative physiology (1854), p. 480.
Is gratified that CD thinks some of the arguments in his book [Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4027 |
From H. B. Dobell 20 April 1863
Summary
Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4115 |
From H. B. Dobell 12 May 1863
Summary
Sends copy of the table, which now embodies CD’s suggestions [see 4117].
Gives instances of persons born with two thumbs and comments on hereditary factor.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1863 |
Classmark: | Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G 395, Dobell 1862) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4158A |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Dobell, H. B. | (3) |
Dobell, H. B. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |