To A. R. Wallace 1 August [1871]
Summary
On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7889 |
From Chauncey Wright 1 August 1871
Summary
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7890 |
From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891 |
From L. H. Morgan [1 August 1871]
Summary
Sends abstract of a paper on hybridity read by Edward Moore to a natural history club in Rochester, NY. Argues the necessity of hybridity on CD’s theory.
| Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 240/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891F |
To Fritz Müller 2 August [1871]
Summary
Opinions on Descent.
Sexual selection and mimicry in Lepidoptera; sexual selection as an aid to protective imitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7892 |
To Theodor Piderit 2 August [1871]
Summary
Comments on TP’s work on mimicry.
Thanks for book he is sending [Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Theodor Piderit |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Abteilung Ostwestfalen-Lippe (D 72 Piderit, Theodor Nr. 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7893 |
To Elliott & Fry [2 August 1871]
Summary
Thanks for the photographs, which are "very good".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elliott & Fry |
| Date: | [2 Aug 1871] |
| Classmark: | Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7893A |
From Asa Gray 3 August 1871
Summary
AG hopes to meet CD’s sons, who are visiting America.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7894 |
To A. R. Wallace 4 August [1871]
Summary
Sends enclosure for ARW to read.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/3/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7895 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 August 1871
Summary
Lengthy discussion of William Thomson’s address [BAAS, Edinburgh 1871].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 73–77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7896 |
From C. A. Canfield 5 August 1871
Summary
Sends a series of factual corrections to Variation and Descent: barking of coyotes and colour of wild American horses.
| Author: | Colbert Austin Canfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7897 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 August [1871]
Summary
Has read Thomson’s address with "greatest interest", but JDH has said exactly what he [CD] thinks of it.
Herschel’s was a good sneer. It made him add the Raphael Madonna simile in Descent [2: 142].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 202–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7898 |
From A. R. Wallace 7 August 1871
Summary
Sends notes on Fritz Müller’s letter.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 85–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7899 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 August [1871]
Summary
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7900 |
From Michele Lessona 5 August 1871
Summary
On the malar bone [see Descent 1: 124].
Has verified hermaphroditism of Serranus and other fishes as normal [see Descent 1: 208].
| Author: | Michele Lessona |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7901 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 10 August [1871]
Summary
Mentions experiments on Lythrum.
Thanks for list of seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7902 |
From T. H. Farrer 11 August 1871
Summary
Sorry he will be away when CD comes down.
Congratulations on Henrietta Darwin’s engagement.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7903 |
To John Lubbock 12 August [1871]
Summary
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904 |
From W. E. Darwin 15 August 1871
Summary
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904F |
From J. D. Hooker 15 August 1871
Summary
Differences in violet and honeysuckle cases.
Huxley basted Thomson awfully in Section D [of BAAS].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 78–79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7905 |
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| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Piderit, Theodor | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
| Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
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