To ? 14 June [1870]
Summary
When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 14 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7233 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 June [1870]
Summary
Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6788 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 June 1870?]
Summary
Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7210 |
To Federico Delpino 1 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks FD for seeds of Canna.
Still thinks it would be worth FD’s while looking at the fertilisation of Lotus; does not think Frank Darwin has exaggerated the novelty of the contrivance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 1 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7213 |
To Adam Sedgwick 1 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks AS for his kindness towards himself and his family. Looks back with great satisfaction to his last visit ("as it will probably prove") to Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 1 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7213F |
To J. D. Hooker 2 [June 1870]
Summary
Returns H. C. Watson’s letter.
CD must study JDH’s manner of arrangement of varieties and subspecies, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 [June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7214 |
To F. C. Donders 3 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks FCD for information.
Hopes that translation of his paper will appear in Dublin Journal.
Notes experience of his son [Leonard Darwin] on engorgement of eyes with blood. Discusses secretion of tears when eye muscles are involuntarily contracted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 3 June [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7215 |
To James Paget 4 June [1870]
Summary
Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7217 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 June [1870]
Summary
Duchenne [Mécanisme] has arrived. Has been testing the photographs with 20 or 30 persons; when all or nearly all agree with Duchenne, CD trusts him. Not one understood the "contracted pyramidal of the nose". CD does not think the so-called muscle of lasciviousness worth exhibiting.
His MS [of Descent] is so large he may print only what he has, and make a second volume of what he is now writing on expression.
Discusses photographs he would like to have: baby screaming, person in paroxysm of fear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7224 |
To St G. J. Mivart 13 June [1870]
Summary
In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.
He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 13 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7228A |
To R. A. von Kölliker 14 June 1870
Summary
Thanks for RAvK’s work [Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien, pt 1, Die Pennatuliden (1870)].
Asks whether muscles to quills of porcupine are striped. Are they homologous to muscles of ordinary hairs? Could unstriped muscles develop into striped?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolf Albert von Kölliker |
Date: | 14 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7230 |
To J. J. Weir 14 June [1870]
Summary
Asks about birds erecting feathers when enraged or frightened. Interested in examples of expression in birds and animals.
Tells of the sheldrake dancing on tidal sands to make worms come out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 14 June [1870] |
Classmark: | University of Redlands, Armacost Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7231 |
To F. C. Donders 21 June 1870
Summary
Comments on translation of FCD’s paper ["On the action of the eyelids", Arch. Med. 5 (1870): 20–38].
Speculates that closing eyelids may protect eyes from vibrations.
Discusses publication of Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 21 June 1870 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7238 |
To Ernst Haeckel 23 June [1870]
Summary
Comments on new edition of EH’s book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, 2d ed. (1870)].
Mentions his own book [Descent].
Visit by Kölliker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 23 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7241 |
To Edward Burnett Tylor 25 June 1870
Summary
Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].
Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Date: | 25 June 1870 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7244 |
To Frederick Bates 26 June [1870?]
Summary
Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
Date: | 26 June [1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7245A |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1870]
Summary
Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7251 |
To J. J. Weir 29 June [1870]
Summary
On birds erecting feathers.
Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.
Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 29 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7253 |
To W. W. Reade 30 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7255 |
To B. J. Sulivan 30 June [1870]
Summary
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7256 |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Donders, F. C. | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Bates, Frederick | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Donders, F. C. | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Bates, Frederick | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Kölliker, R. A. von | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Paget, James | (1) |
Reade, W. W. | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Tylor, E. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |