To H. K. Rusden [before 27 March 1875]
Summary
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Keylock Rusden |
| Date: | [before 27 Mar 1875] |
| Classmark: | Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 27 March 1875, p. 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9705F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin argued that lunacy should be grounds for divorce in G. H. Darwin 1873 , p. 418. In Rusden 1874 , p. 7, Rusden argued that some prehistoric societies attained a higher degree of civilisation than some later ones, and that even in historic times the progress of civilisation had been ‘intermittent’. Walter Bagehot discussed the definition of progress and the frequent lack of it in human societies in the final chapter of his Physics and politics ( Bagehot 1872 ). …
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Summary
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin, [19 August 1875] , and letter from G. H. Darwin, 20 August 1875 . There is an annotated copy of Delamer 1854 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 190). Edmund Saul Dixon wrote under the pen name Eugene Sebastian Delamer. Although he had worked extensively on rabbit skeletons (see especially Correspondence vol. 6), CD seems not to have bred rabbits himself except in 1872, …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Rusden, H. K. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Rusden, H. K. | (1) |
