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]
Summary
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]
Summary
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]
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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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Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (4) |
Alglave, Émile | (2) |
Aubertin, J. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (72) |
Murray, John (b) | (7) |
Ogle, William | (5) |
Tyndall, John | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (135) |
Murray, John (b) | (11) |
Tyndall, John | (6) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (6) |
Ogle, William | (5) |