From G. H. Darwin [14 May 1871]
Summary
Has arranged a trip to the U. S. with Cambridge friends; believes it would be much jollier if Frank could go too.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 May 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7757 |
From J. W. Clark 31 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated to the Museum.
Asks for a live Helix pomatia for dissection.
| Author: | John Willis Clark |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7919 |
To William Ogle 21 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8115 |
To Hubert Airy 5 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7659 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Gascoyen, 7 July 1870 and n. 1, and this volume, letter to Francis Darwin, 25 March [ …
- … Francis Darwin , George Green Gascoyen , Charles Langstaff , St George Jackson Mivart , Patrick Nicol , William Ogle , and James Paget (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. E. Darwin, [15 April 1868] and nn. 2–5, Correspondence vol. 17, letter to James Paget, 29 April [1869] and n. 3, Correspondence vol. 18, letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 …
To St G. J. Mivart 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD apologises for having thought that StGJM’s religious feelings had led him to feel personal animosity towards him. [See 7454.]
He remembers having thought and written that belief in evolution is infinitely more important for science than belief in Natural Selection. For his own part he would have felt little interest in evolution apart from the explanation "in a general manner" of how each organism is so adapted to its conditions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7459A |
To W. H. Flower [1871?]
Summary
Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
| Date: | [1871?] |
| Classmark: | B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5767 |
From F. E. Abbot 20 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for interest in FEA’s work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.
Praises CD’s services to free-thought.
Asks for CD’s view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.
| Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7912 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1870. ] Truths for the times. Mount Pleasant, Ramsgate: Thomas Scott. Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. 1871. The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion. [Read 5 February 1871. ] Index 2: 113–15. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. …
From Francis Galton 9 January 1871
Summary
Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7432 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Francis Galton, 31 March 1870 and nn. 5 and 6). There is an annotated copy of B. A. Gould 1869 ( Investigations in the military and anthropological statistics of American soldiers ) in the Darwin …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Galton, Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [ Read 30 March 1871. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870– …
To Nature [before 27 April 1871]
Summary
Replies to Francis Galton’s paper on tranfusing blood between rabbits to test Pangenesis [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–40]. FG’s conclusion that his experiments prove Pangenesis to be false is "a little hasty", since CD had never maintained that gemmules in the blood formed any part of his hypothesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 27 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 27 April 1871, pp. 502–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7720 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Galton, Francis. 1871. Experiments in pangenesis, by breeding from rabbits of a pure variety, into whose circulation blood taken from other varieties had previously been largely transfused. [Read 30 March 1871. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 19 (1870– …
From Alfred Newton 29 May 1871
Summary
[Reference to Japanese nuthatch (see Descent, 2d ed., p. 410 n.) excised from letter.]
Sorry they will not have Frank Darwin with them any more.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 170–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7778 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1870, p. 278. Speaking of Japanese nut-hatches in confinement he says: ‘Instead of the more yielding fruit of the yew, which is the usual food of the nut-hatch in Japan, at one time I substituted hard hazelnuts. As the bird was unable to crack them, he placed them one by one in his water-glass, evidently with the notion that they would in time become softer—an interesting proof of intelligence on the part of these birds. ’ Francis Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Galton, 9 January 1871 , n. 1. ) William Turner Thiselton-Dyer’s paper, ‘On spontaneous generation and evolution’, appeared in the October 1870 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ( Thiselton-Dyer 1870 ). Thiselton-Dyer cited Herbert Spencer’s Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 ) frequently in his paper and agreed with Spencer’s view that life developed from non-living matter by slow stages. Emma Darwin’ …
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