From John Lubbock 16 July [1870]
Summary
The Census Bill is down on the paper for tomorrow; will CD restate how he wants to put the question [on cousin marriages]?
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7277 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 16 July 1870
Summary
Sends CD some seeds.
Has been experimenting with Oxalis crosses.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7278 |
From William Farr 16 July 1870
Summary
Discusses the Census Bill and CD’s attempt to get questions on consanguineous marriage added to the census.
| Author: | William Farr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7279 |
To John Lubbock 17 July 1870
Summary
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7281 |
To William Farr 17 July [1870]
Summary
Writes concerning the questions on consanguineous marriages which CD wishes to have inserted into the Census. Discusses the form the questions might take and the value of the information that would be gained from them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Farr |
| Date: | 17 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 76–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7282 |
From Armand de Quatrefages 18 July 1870
Summary
CD lost first round of nominations at the Académie Française to Jean-Frédéric de Brandt. QdeB and Milne-Edwards continue the battle, but CD is fiercely attacked.
Asks for complete citation of CD’s geological work on South America because it has to be shown he did more than collect objects.
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7283 |
From Arthur Gardiner Butler 19 July 1870
Summary
Supplies names of moths and references.
Describes his breeding experiments with butterflies to test effects of reduced light.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7284 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 20 July [1870]
Summary
Sends list of his publications.
Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 20 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 21 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks Quatrefages for his work on species. Explains that he received the Wollaston Medal for his three geological works.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 21 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285F |
To John Lubbock 21 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 21 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Dr N. Hammond (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7286 |
From John Lubbock 23 July [1870]
Summary
Brought forward the "cousin question" in the House; read most of CD’s letter to the House.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7287 |
From John Lubbock 26 July [1870]
Summary
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7288 |
To J. P. M. Weale 30 July 1870
Summary
Has forwarded JPMW’s papers to the Linnean Society [four articles by J. P. M. Weale, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 13 (1870–2): 42–58].
Comments on JPMW’s findings concerning flowers and their fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 30 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.380) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7290 |
From David Forbes 30 July 1870
Summary
Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.
| Author: | David Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7291 |
To David Forbes 31 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Forbes |
| Date: | 31 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.381) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7292 |
To John Murray [after 1 July 1870]
Summary
Wants to keep "The origin of man" as first part of title of book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray; John Murray |
| Date: | [after 1 July 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7050 |
To Richard Kippist 28 July [1870]
Summary
Sends five papers from J. P. M. Weale for consideration by the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 28 July [1870] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7289 |
| letter | (37) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (3) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
| Farr, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Lubbock, John | (5) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (3) |
| Farr, William | (2) |
| Forbes, David | (2) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Gascoyen, G. G. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
| Weale, J. P. M. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
