To A. R. Wallace 27 July [1872]
Summary
On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.
Comments on other reviews and exchanges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 July [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8429 |
To L. H. Morgan 20 January 1872
Summary
Thanks LHM for his work on consanguinity. [See 7299].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8167 |
To Nature 3 August [1872]
Summary
Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.
Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8448 |
To A. R. Wallace 28 August [1872]
Summary
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8488 |
From St G. J. Mivart 4 January 1872
Summary
Sends his reply to Huxley’s criticisms [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 168–97].
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8143 |
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- … 1872 My dear Sir I herewith forward, by book post, a separate copy of my reply to Prof. Huxley’s criticism on the “Genesis of Species”— I had hoped to have been able to have sent you at the same time my reply to M r Chauncey Wright but owing to an accident I must wait till April when I hope it will be out. Wishing you very sincerely a happy new year | I remain | My dear Sir | Yours very truly | S t Geo Mivart To | C. Darwin …
From G. H. Darwin [1 October 1873]
Summary
Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8702 |
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- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the preceding Wednesday was 1 October. Clark was treating George; in a letter to Horace Darwin, [10 June 1873] (DAR 258: 579), Emma Darwin wrote: ‘D r Clarke says he must go on just the same— He has added raw eggs to his diet & that is very nourishing. D r C. speaks confidently of curing him—’ George was called to the bar in 1872, …
To Albert Günther 11 May [1872]
Summary
Encloses a testimonial for AG [in support of his application for a promotion at British Museum].
Does he agree with Carl Gegenbaur’s paper on the limbs of fish [Jenaische Z. Naturwiss. 5 (1870): 397–447]?
Asks what caused G. R. Gray’s sudden death.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 11 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library Günther 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8316 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.
Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070 |
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- … R. Wallace, 28 August [1872] ). John Simon was the medical officer of the Privy Council. CD may refer to his twelfth report ( House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: Public Health. Twelfth report of the medical officer of the Privy Council; 1870 (c. 208) XXXVIII.591), which contained a report by Burdon Sanderson in the appendix, ‘On the intimate pathology of contagion’ ( Burdon Sanderson 1870 ). A copy is in the Darwin …
From J. V. Carus 28 June 1875
Summary
Thinks Insectivorous plants must be translated and published in Germany.
Journal of researches nearly finished.
A new [German] edition of Origin is wanted.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10033 |
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- … 1872). The sixth German edition appeared in 1876 and was evidently unchanged from the fifth edition; it was the second volume of the collected German edition of CD’s works (Bronn and Carus trans. 1876; Carus trans. 1875–87). Bronn and Carus trans. 1876 did not contain the paper that appeared in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( Zoology ) in 1858 (C. R. Darwin …
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| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
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