To Nature [before 27 April 1871]
Summary
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 27 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 27 April 1871, pp. 502–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7720 |
From William Preyer 27 April 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 5th ed.
Comments on reviews of Descent by the Duke of Argyll and A. R. Wallace.
Lists the Darwinian professors at Jena.
WP’s work shows external ear to have no physiological functions.
W. Müller’s book not yet arrived. Will send Müller’s next works.
| Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 52, DAR 174: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7721 |
From R. I. Thompson 27 April 1871
Summary
About a dog that acquired habits from a cat and her kittens.
| Author: | Ralph Ingham Thompson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7722 |
To Williams & Norgate 27 April [1871]
Summary
Requesting information about the publication history of Lavater 1820.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Scrope-Howe family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7722F |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Thompson, R. I. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Preyer, William | (1) |
| Thompson, R. I. | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
4.27 'Four founders of Darwinismus'
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1869-70 Darwin had declined to be photographed with Alfred Russel Wallace for a German publication, whose author had intended to show them as joint discoverers of natural selection. However, in 1873 he suffered a much…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1869-70 Darwin had declined to be photographed with Alfred …
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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- … 4th ed., p. 466. 52. p. 426. 53. p. 427. This substitution also occurs in Origin …
