From J. D. Hooker 11 May 1872
Summary
The die is cast on Ayrton affair. Lord Derby has called for all of the correspondence, as a result of pressure by men of science on JDH’s behalf.
Has just had a Greenland collection, which supports his views altogether; "I am ready to do fight for these with you."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8317 |
From John Tyndall 8 June [1872]
Summary
Sends CD a copy of the memorial supporting Hooker’s case against A. S. Ayrton’s interference in the administration of Kew Gardens.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8375 |
To C. I. F. Major [c. 1 November 1872]
Summary
Will let CIFM know [probably about John Murray’s terms for an Italian translation of Expression].
Thanks for information about hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major |
Date: | [c. 1 Nov 1872] |
Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Crerar Manuscript 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8564F |
From Hubert Airy [before 15] July 1872
Summary
Outlines his theory on the origin of existing orders of leaf arrangement. Believes spiral and whorled orders have evolved from a primitive distichous arrangement. These arrangements permit a compact bud form of small surface area that can withstand external changes in temperature, and in particular can tolerate frost.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15] July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8412 |
From Eduard von Eichwald 10 January 1872
Summary
Sends paper on the coasts of Alaska.
Wishes to sell his large Russian palaeontological collection.
Wants to get in touch with American (Mr Dall), who is going to study geology of Alaskan and Aleutian coast.
Author: | Karl Eduard (Eduard) von Eichwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8155 |
From W. E. Darwin [1 January 1872]
Summary
Worm action at Stonehenge.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8137 |
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- … The hill sloped perhaps 7 o at top to 10 o or 12 o 3 4 way down & then gradually lessened …
- … 10 inches to a foot, I found the depth of the mould above the mixed flint and chalk to be 5 1 2 inches and at a depth of about 4 inches I found a bit of tobacco pipe. I should think therefore the blocks had long sunk as deep as they could, tho’ by driving my skewer (of 6 inches) down down at bottom of my trowel hole (of 12 …
From V. O. Kovalevsky [12–17 August 1872]
Summary
CD cannot omit mention of Wilhelm Wundt’s Thierseele [Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] in his book.
Murray could control the number of copies of translation of Expression sold in Russia by the number of heliotypes he will supply.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12–17 Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8464 |
From Raphael Meldola 26 March 1872
Summary
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 89–90b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8252 |
From Thomas Stanley 24 January 1872
Summary
Wants references to the work of Julius von Haast and James Hector on New Zealand glaciers, which CD mentions in the Origin [6th ed., p. 335].
Author: | Thomas Stanley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8177 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 10 September 1872
Summary
Alexander [Kovalevsky] is intent on assisting Russian publication of Expression. Sends estimates of costs and profits. At 7s 6d per copy a net profit of £150–200 is expected.
Wilhelm Wundt [Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] probably of no use.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8516 |
From W. E. Darwin [29 February 1872]
Summary
Amount of clay present in certain chalk samples.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Feb 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7469 |
To Alpheus Hyatt 4 December [1872]
Summary
If decapod does not pass through zoea stage, is this acceleration? If hypothetical adult retained zoea characters, would this be retardation? Believes obliteration of growth stages frequently due to natural selection. Most interesting points in AH’s letter deal with senile characters. CD attributes them to laws of growth not selection. Explains degraded characters as result of readaptation to simpler conditions. Believes no innate tendency to progressive development exists.
Hopes AH visits F. Hilgendorf’s famous deposit [at Steinheim]. A. Weismann [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)] makes good use of Hilgendorf’s observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alpheus Hyatt |
Date: | 4 Dec [1872] |
Classmark: | Maryland Historical Society (Alpheus Hyatt Papers MS 1007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8658 |
From G. C. Oxenden 8 April 1872
Summary
Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8281 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 September [1872]
Summary
Sends proof-sheets [of Expression].
Is unwell and must stop work and leave home for a time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 24 Sept [1872] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8533 |
From Leonard Darwin [29 March 1872]
Summary
Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Mar 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8260 |
From W. W. Baxter [after 23 August 1872?]
Author: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 Aug 1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 60.2: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9793 |
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From M. D. Conway 24 December 1872
Summary
Introduces himself as an acquaintance of E. A. Darwin. Offers miscellaneous observations on human expression.
Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8694 |
To Charles Lyell 12 July [1872]
Summary
Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 July [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8405 |
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- … 12 th My dear Lyell I have been glad to see the enclosed & returned. — It seems to me very cool in Agassiz to doubt the recent upheaval of Patagonia, without having visited any part; & he entirely misrepresents me in saying that I infer upheaval from the form of the land, as I trusted entirely to shells embedded & on the surface. It is simply monstrous to suppose that the terraces stretching on a dead level for leagues along the coast, & miles in breadth, & covered with beds of stratified gravel 10– …
From Friedrich Hildebrand 5 February 1872
Summary
Praise for Descent.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8201 |
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- … 12 and 19 April 1872 ( Hildebrand 1872b ). CD’s annotated copies of these articles are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Hildebrand published two further articles, on the means of dispersal of the seeds of Graminae, and on the dispersal of seed by adherent organs, both of which appeared in Botanische Zeitung in December 1872 ( Hildebrand 1872c and 1872d). CD’s annotated copies of these articles are in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 …
To St G. J. Mivart 11 January [1872]
Summary
CD believes that StGJM has been unfair in his criticisms and has misrepresented him; he begs him not to write again. "Agassiz has uttered splendid sarcasms on me, but I still feel quite friendly towards him. M. Flourens cd. not find words to express his contempt of me: Pictet & Hopkins argued with great force against me: Fleeming Jenkin covered me with first-rate ridicule; & his crticisms were true & most useful: but none of their writings have mortified me as yours have done …" [See 8154.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 11 Jan [1872] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8156A |
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- … 10 January 1872 and n. 1. CD refers to Chauncey Wright . On Louis Agassiz’s disagreements with CD, see Lurie 1960 , pp. 252–302. See also Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1860] , and Correspondence vol. 16, letter to Louis Agassiz, 19 August 1868 . Marie Jean Pierre Flourens had written a book criticising Origin ( Flourens 1864 ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, …
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