From Frank Chance [before 25 April 1871]
Summary
His beard is darker than his hair, an exception to CD’s rule in Descent [2: 319]. Encloses sample of his hair, beard, and whiskers.
| Author: | Frank Chance |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 198–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7522 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 25 April 1871]
Summary
Points out errata in Descent.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 25 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7523 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 25 April 1871]
Summary
WBT’s beard exceptional in that it is darker than his hair [see Descent 2: 319].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 25 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7712 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 April [1871]
Summary
Has read the Field review of Descent ["Darwin on the descent of man", 37 (1871): 210]. Thanks WBT for his remarks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7713 |
To Hinrich Nitsche 25 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks HN for photographs of his ears and one showing the form of the ears in a foetal orang. He will show them to a wood-engraver when a new edition of Descent is called for [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 17].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hinrich Nitsche |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Sondersammlungen (Sammlung Liebeskind/XI/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7714 |
To J. V. Carus 25 April [1871]
Summary
Corrections for Descent. Has sold 6500 copies in England.
Has finished rough draft of Expression, but will put it aside for the summer.
Will refresh himself with some curious observations on the response of plants to certain stimuli.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 62–63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7715 |
From F. T. Köppen 25 April 1871
Summary
Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)]. The effect of the growth of forest land on their increase; meteorological and climatic effects.
Also observations made on increase in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of weasels that fed on mice.
| Author: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7716 |
From Francis Galton 25 April 1871
Summary
Upset to learn he has misrepresented CD’s doctrine on Pangenesis [in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–410]. Hopes that CD’s letter to Nature [3 (1871): 502–3; Collected papers 2: 165–7] will clarify the doctrine and attract attention to it.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 28–29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7717 |
To Henry Johnson 25 April [1871?]
Summary
Condolence on death of HJ’s daughter; "I know from old experience how bitter a loss it is".
Thanks for information about intelligence of dog.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1871?] |
| Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7718 |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Chance, Frank | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Köppen, F. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
| Nitsche, Hinrich | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Chance, Frank | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
4.25 'Punch' 1877 re. Cambridge doctorate
Summary
< Back to Introduction Punch often ridiculed Darwin by showing him as a monkey or in other animalistic forms, but in 1877, when he at last received an honorary degree from Cambridge University, it paid its tribute to ‘wisdom’. ‘Punch to Dr. Darwin’…
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3.18 Elliott and Fry photos, c.1869-1871
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< Back to Introduction The leading photographic firm of Elliott and Fry seems to have portrayed Darwin at Down House on several occasions. In November 1869 Darwin told A. B. Meyer, who wanted photographs of both him and Wallace for a German…
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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … the southern tip of America have in common. Page 425, par. 1, line 25, substitute for …
Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of …
