To Hubert Airy 10 [December] 1871
Summary
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 10 [Dec] 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8060 |
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 |
From Chauncey Wright 1 August 1871
Summary
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Chauncey Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7890 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July [1871]
Summary
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 12 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7858 |
To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964F |
Matches: 1 hit
From Francis Galton 24 November 1871
Summary
Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8085 |
To A. R. Wallace 16 March 1871
Summary
Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7589 |
To R. F. Cooke 10 February [1871]
Summary
Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7480 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Wright, Chauncey | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Wright, Chauncey | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
