To ? 27 September [1871–81]
Summary
Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 27 Sept [1871-81] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13886 |
To E. A. Darwin 7 September [1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13789 |
To George Busk 2 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing a new edition of Origin [6th ed. (1872)] and asks GB for information on the gradations between the vibracula and avicularia of the Polyzoa and on what he bases his opinion concerning the homology of the avicularium with the zooid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 2 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7921 |
From F. A. Hanbury 4 September 1871
Author: | Francis Alfred Hanbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7923 |
To F. E. Abbot 6 September [1871]
Summary
CD’s views [on religion] are far from clear. He cannot make up his mind how far an inward conviction that there must be some Creator or First Cause is really trustworthy evidence. Does not feel he has thought deeply enough to express himself publicly on religion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Date: | 6 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7924 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 September 1871
Summary
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7925 |
To Anton Dohrn 8 September 1871
Summary
Agrees to have his name on the list of naturalists to whom annual report [on zoological station] should be sent.
His health has been very bad for last six weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 8 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 698) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7926 |
To Otto Kratz 8 September [1871]
Summary
Thanks for sending the photographs of hairy people at the Burmese court.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Kratz |
Date: | 8 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (2005) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7926F |
From Wallis Nash 9 September 1871
Summary
In hunting dogs behavioural and physical traits are often inherited together and from either male or female parent.
Author: | Wallis Nash |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7928 |
From H. Ramu 9 September 1871
Summary
Informs CD that there are goats at Nancy with maxillary appendages similar to those of the ancient Irish pig [see Variation 1: 75].
Author: | H Ramu |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7929 |
From George Busk 10 September 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries about the homologies of the avicularian and vibracular organs of Polyzoa and gives examples of gradations between the two.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 383 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7930 |
From E. A. Darwin 10 September [1871]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7931 |
To Alexander Agassiz 10 September [1871 or 1873]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871 or 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932 |
To Osbert Salvin 10 September [1871]
Summary
CD is interested in the gradation of character in the lamellae of the beaks of ducks. He finds that they are less developed or prominent in the common duck and goose than in true ducks. Is OS able to provide him with any information on this subject?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 10 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7932A |
To Chauncey Wright 12 September 1871
Summary
CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] nearly ready. Friends have been much struck by it but say several passages rather obscure.
Glad CW coming to England. Will be delighted to see him at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7933 |
To Wallis Nash 12 September [1871]
Summary
Thanks for facts relating to inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Wallis Nash |
Date: | 12 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7934 |
From E. A. Darwin 12 [September 1871]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Sept 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7935 |
From W. W. Reade 12 September 1871
Summary
Prefers W. C. Wells’s explanation of the formation of the Nehro type to CD’s sexual selection.
Outlines his view of the origin of man by natural selection.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7936 |
To George Busk 13 September [1871]
Summary
CD plans to use notes provided by GB. [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 193.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 13 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7937 |
From Francis Galton 13 September 1871
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7938 |
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Reade, W. W. | (5) |
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Bartlett, Edward | (2) |
Carboni, Giuseppe | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
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Carboni, Giuseppe | (2) |
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Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
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Foster, Michael | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Hanbury, F. A. | (1) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
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Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Nash, Wallis | (2) |
Ramu, H. | (4) |
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