To A. D. Bartlett 20 September [1871]
Summary
Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 20 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7952 |
From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 39–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7953 |
From Edward Bartlett 20 September 1871
Summary
Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.
| Author: | Edward Bartlett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7954 |
From W. W. Reade 20 September 1871
Summary
Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7955 |
From Roland Trimen 20 September 1871
Summary
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7956 |
From Michael Foster 20 September 1871
Summary
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7957 |
| letter | (6) |
| Bartlett, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
| Bartlett, Edward | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
