From St G. J. Mivart [25 June 1870?]
Summary
Sets a time for CD to call.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5927 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 June [1870]
Summary
Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6788 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 June 1870?]
Summary
Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7210 |
From Francis Galton 1 June 1870
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7212 |
To Federico Delpino 1 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks FD for seeds of Canna.
Still thinks it would be worth FD’s while looking at the fertilisation of Lotus; does not think Frank Darwin has exaggerated the novelty of the contrivance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 1 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7213 |
To Adam Sedgwick 1 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks AS for his kindness towards himself and his family. Looks back with great satisfaction to his last visit ("as it will probably prove") to Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 1 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7213F |
To J. D. Hooker 2 [June 1870]
Summary
Returns H. C. Watson’s letter.
CD must study JDH’s manner of arrangement of varieties and subspecies, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 [June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7214 |
To F. C. Donders 3 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks FCD for information.
Hopes that translation of his paper will appear in Dublin Journal.
Notes experience of his son [Leonard Darwin] on engorgement of eyes with blood. Discusses secretion of tears when eye muscles are involuntarily contracted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 3 June [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7215 |
From W. W. Reade 4 June 1870
Summary
The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.
Believes the Jollops select for blackness.
Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.
Has found stone instruments.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7216 |
To James Paget 4 June [1870]
Summary
Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7217 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 June 1870
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7219 |
From James Crichton-Browne 6 June 1870
Summary
Returns copy of Duchenne (found in cupboard) with notes [see 7221].
Sends photograph of woman patient with hair standing on end.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.1: C68; DAR 161: 311 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7220 |
From James Crichton-Browne [6 June 1870]
Summary
Comments on various figures [in Duchenne’s Mécanisme].
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 323, 323/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7221 |
From Robert Cecil 7 June 1870
Summary
Informs CD that Oxford proposes to confer an honorary degree upon him.
Author: | Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquess of Salisbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7222 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 June [1870]
Summary
Duchenne [Mécanisme] has arrived. Has been testing the photographs with 20 or 30 persons; when all or nearly all agree with Duchenne, CD trusts him. Not one understood the "contracted pyramidal of the nose". CD does not think the so-called muscle of lasciviousness worth exhibiting.
His MS [of Descent] is so large he may print only what he has, and make a second volume of what he is now writing on expression.
Discusses photographs he would like to have: baby screaming, person in paroxysm of fear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7224 |
From Benjamin Collins Brodie 9 June 1870
Summary
Hears CD may come to Oxford at Commencement to receive an honorary degree. Invites CD, his wife, and daughter to stay at his house. [CD declined Hon. D.C.L. on grounds of ill health.]
Author: | Benjamin Collins Brodie, Jr, 2d baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 315 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7225 |
From John Murray 10 June [1870]
Summary
Asks CD whether he is far enough along with his new work [Descent] to allow him to announce it as a forthcoming publication in his next quarterly list.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 375 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7226 |
From St G. J. Mivart 11 June 1870
Summary
Asks by what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes
and how the beauty of bivalves could have been produced by natural or sexual selection.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7227 |
From David Forbes 13 June 1870
Summary
Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.
Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7228 |
To St G. J. Mivart 13 June [1870]
Summary
In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.
He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 13 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7228A |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Donders, F. C. | (2) |
Tylor, E. B. | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (3) |
Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |