To Mr Dorrell 9 August 1870
Summary
Sends instructions to Messrs Clowes concerning typesetting and printing of proof-sheets of Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mr. Dorrell; William Clowes & Sons |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1870 |
| 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-7298 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 or 7 July 1870]
Summary
Has CD read E. Claparède ["Remarques à propos de l’ouvrage de M. Alfred Russel Wallace sur la théorie de la sélection naturelle", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 38 (1870): 160–89]? Is it worth translating?
CD and J.-F. de Brandt are "en lutte for Ac. of Sc. [France]. What a farce it is".
His work on Nepenthes supports Miquel’s and Wallace’s view of the zoology of Borneo and Sumatra.
Brian Hodgson on dogs.
H. C. Bastian’s book [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)] unsatisfactory.
Lyell does not share CD’s view of Bentham’s address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 or 7 July 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 55–56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7267 |
From Hermann Müller 8 March 1870
Summary
HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7130 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dorrell, Mr. | (1) |
| William Clowes & Sons | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dorrell, Mr. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| William Clowes & Sons | (1) |
