To Edward Bartlett 1 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for ducks’ skins, for which he encloses postal order.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Bartlett |
| Date: | 1 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7843 |
To ? 1 July 1871
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7844 |
To A. G. Butler 1 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks AGB for "various notes".
Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Date: | 1 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7845 |
To Nature 1 July [1871]
Summary
Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 1 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846 |
To C. V. Riley 1 July [1871]
Summary
Would be delighted to see CVR at Down, but is in precarious health and cannot talk to anyone for more than an hour.
Wrote to CVR a few weeks ago to thank him for his book [see 7794].
Will expect CVR on Thursday unless he hears otherwise.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Date: | 1 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (Fall 1996 catalogue) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846F |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [early July 1871]
Summary
Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [early July 1871] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9524 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bartlett, Edward | (1) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Riley, C. V. | (1) |
| Bartlett, Edward | (1) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Nature | (1) |
| Riley, C. V. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
Moral Nature
Summary
In Descent of Man, Darwin argued that human morality had evolved from the social instincts of animals, especially the bonds of sympathy and love. Darwin gathered observations over many decades on animal behavior: the heroic sacrifices of social insects,…
