To ? 28 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7836F |
From Lionel Ashburner 25 June 1871
Author: | Lionel Robert (Lionel) Ashburner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10551 |
From Alexander Agassiz [before 1 June 1871]
Summary
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 June 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7415 |
From Hugh Browne June 1871
Summary
Believes his letter of 17 Apr bears also on vol. 1 of Descent.
Ability to move ears is common in his family.
Similarity of foot of man to that of gorilla continues beyond foetal stage.
Invites CD to stay overnight if visiting the area.
Author: | Hugh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7696 |
From J. T. Moggridge [before 22] June 1871
Summary
At Wallace’s suggestion he offers CD his observations on the seed-gathering habits of ants. Suggests their role in seed dispersal.
At work on the last part of his book [Contributions to the flora of Mentone (1867–71)].
Has found that Ophrys insectifera can reproduce asexually.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22] June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7788 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 13 June 1871]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 13 June 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7791 |
To Edward Suess 1 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.
Is sorry ES has suffered in health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Suess |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.397) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7792 |
To Thomas Bradfield 2 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for the fact about the dog.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Bradfield |
Date: | 2 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Doyle, New York (dealers) (8 May 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7792F |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 June [1871]
Summary
Discusses homologies in various animal groups.
Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7793 |
To C. V. Riley 1 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].
Discusses mimetic insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 1 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7794 |
From Thomas Bradfield 1 June 1871
Summary
Instance of a dog able to discriminate a note played out of tune. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 569.]
Author: | Thomas Bradfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 181–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7795 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 2 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.
Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 2 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7796 |
From A. G. Butler 2 June 1871
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 108–111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7797 |
To John Murray 3 June [1871]
Summary
Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.
Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 June [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7798 |
To John Higgins 3 June 1871
Summary
Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 3 June 1871 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7798F |
From Henry Reeks 3 June 1871
Summary
Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.
Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.
Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7799 |
From Michael Foster 4 June [1871]
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7800 |
From J. B. Innes 5 June 1871
Summary
On Down parish matters.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7801 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 June 1871
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 75, 75a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7802 |
To Michael Foster 6 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 6 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7803 |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Reeks, Henry | (3) |
Butler, A. G. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
Bradfield, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Donders, F. C. | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Riley, C. V. | (1) |
Riviere, Briton | (1) |
Rohlfs, Gerhard | (1) |
Suess, Eduard | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
Foster, Michael | (6) |
Morgan, L. H. | (3) |
Reeks, Henry | (3) |
Agassiz, Alexander | (2) |