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From Patrick Matthew   12 March 1871

Summary

Encloses an article he wrote for the Scotsman [9 Mar 1871, p. 5].

Wishes he had time to write a critique of Descent. There is evidence of design and benevolence in nature. Beauty cannot be accounted for by natural selection.

Author:  Patrick Matthew
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Mar 1871
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7576

To John Murray   13 March 1871

Summary

Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  13 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 143: 435
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7577

To G. B. Murdoch   13 March 1871

Summary

Believes he has committed an oversight with regard to sexual selection in insects. Cites conclusions of B. T. Lowne, which are similar to GBM’s.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Brown Murdoch
Date:  13 Mar 1871
Classmark:  David Henderson-Howat (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7578

To B. J. Sulivan   13 March [1871]

Summary

Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:  13 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  Sulivan family (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7579

To A. R. Wallace   13 March [1871]

Summary

Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  13 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7579A

From Robert Swinhoe   14 March 1871

Summary

Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.

Author:  Robert Swinhoe
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 177: 335
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7580

From W. R. Greg   14 March [1871]

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Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].

Author:  William Rathbone Greg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 90: 127–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7581

From F. C. Donders   14 March 1871

Summary

Thanks CD for Descent.

Sends a copy of his oratio inauguralis on De harmonie van het dierlijke leven [1848] in which he espoused evolution, but did not see the influence of natural selection.

Author:  Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 227
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7582

From V. O. Kovalevsky   14 March 1871

Summary

Russian translation of Descent in progress, but the Minister of Interior has banned CD’s work and the book will be seized.

His foolish brother-in-law, Mayor of Montmartre, attempted to defend their section against the government.

CD’s queries on man and camels have gone to Alexander [Kovalevsky] in Sinai.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 169: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7583

To Patrick Matthew   15 March [1871]

Summary

PM’s letter and newspaper article [see 7576] show him to be still vigorous. CD doubts that he himself will be good for much more.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Patrick Matthew
Date:  15 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7585

From J. V. Carus   15 March 1871

Summary

Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7586

From A. R. Wallace   [15 March 1871]

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Although their language is different, the Bugis are typical Malays both physically and mentally.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 106: B102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7587

To R. H. Blair   [before 16 March 1871]

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Thanks RHB for information on expression in the blind.

Sends queries on expression and asks whether he could answer them with respect to those born blind.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Hugh Blair
Date:  [before 16 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7588

To A. R. Wallace   16 March 1871

Summary

Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  16 Mar 1871
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7589

From R. H. Blair   16 March 1871

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Will be pleased to collect information on the blind for CD when time allows. Generally very few (about one quarter) of blind people entering institutions are born blind.

Author:  Robert Hugh Blair
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 195
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7590

From George Busk   16 March 1871

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The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.

Author:  George Busk
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 29–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7591

From Emile Alglave   17 March 1871

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Comments on continued appearance of Revue [des cours scientifiques] despite German siege. Plans enlarged format to include politics and political economy. Repeats request to publish first part of Descent, chapter by chapter, to be followed by publication of the whole.

Author:  Émile Alglave
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7592

From Lewin Hill   17 March 1871

Summary

Case of hereditary transmission; in his own family ten of LH’s generation suffer a defect in the right knee-joint.

Author:  Edward Bernard Lewin (Lewin) Hill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 166: 217
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7593

To T. R. R. Stebbing   18 March [1871]

Summary

Thanks TRRS for copy of his book [Essays on Darwinism (1871)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:  18 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.388)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7594

To F. C. Donders   18 March 1871

Summary

Comments on FCD’s 1848 work [see 7582] in which he came near to anticipating CD.

Comments on FCD’s paper [on action of the eyelids, see 7203]. Asks about contraction or dilation of the iris due to emotional states, illness, or prostration.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:  18 Mar 1871
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7595
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