From William Preyer 6 July 1877
Summary
Asks for CD’s "Sketch of an infant" [Collected papers 2: 191–200]. He has made observations on new-born children and mammals to determine what behaviour is inherited and what acquired.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11038 |
To William Preyer 8 July 1877
Summary
Discusses inheritance.
Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 8 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 268–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11042 |
To William Preyer 25 January 1878
Summary
Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 25 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 269 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11331 |
From William Preyer 25 November 1880
Summary
Sends his book [Naturwissenschaftliche Thatsachen und Probleme. Populäre Vorträge (1880)].
Anxious to receive Movement in plants because CD’s methods may be applicable to his experiments on the earliest movements of animal embryos.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12857 |
To William Preyer 27 November 1880
Summary
Will send copy of Movement in plants.
Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 27 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12867 |
From William Preyer 2 December 1880
Summary
CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12883 |
To William Preyer 28 October 1881
Summary
Thanks WP for copy of his Die Seele des Kindes [1882].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 28 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13438 |
To William Thierry Preyer 31 March 1868
Summary
Glad to hear that WP defends species transmutation. German support is the chief reason to hope that their views will prevail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 31 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | LL 3: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6075 |
To William Thierry Preyer [before 21 March 1869]
Summary
Replies to inquiries about his life and career.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | [before 21 Mar 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 262–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6540 |
From W. T. Preyer 21 March 1869
Summary
Has given a lecture series on Darwinism which was attended by 200–500 students.
Would like to compile a list of CD’s works.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6676 |
To W. T. Preyer 29 March 1869
Summary
Congratulates WP on the success of his lectures.
Discusses the phrase "struggle for existence".
Sends a list of his papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 254–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6687 |
From William Thierry Preyer [before 17 February 1870]
Summary
Notes the differences in haemoglobin between species; this proves, to WP, that natural selection does not act only on morphological development.
Remarks on the differences and similarities in the effects of prussic acid on different groups of animals.
Questions CD on his early education and influences.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 21 (EH 88206073) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7110 |
To W. T. Preyer 17 February [1870]
Summary
Comments on effects of prussic acid on different individuals of the same species and other physiological research by WP.
Provides information about his studies in Edinburgh and Cambridge and qualifications he had for Beagle voyage. Describes influence of R. E. Grant and J. S. Henslow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 17 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | Ralph Colp Jr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7112 |
From W. T. Preyer 9 May 1870
Summary
Sends his "Charles Darwin, eine biographische Skizze" [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7181 |
To W. T. Preyer 15 May 1870
Summary
Comments on WP’s biographical article on CD. Asks him to thank O. F. Peschel for his present of the publication [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 15 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 256–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7190 |
From William Preyer 27 April 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 5th ed.
Comments on reviews of Descent by the Duke of Argyll and A. R. Wallace.
Lists the Darwinian professors at Jena.
WP’s work shows external ear to have no physiological functions.
W. Müller’s book not yet arrived. Will send Müller’s next works.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 52, DAR 174: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7721 |
To William Preyer 30 April 1871
Summary
Is sending copy of Descent.
Thanks for copy of WP’s book [Die Blutkrystalle (1871)].
Discusses shape of external ear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 30 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 265–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7729 |
From William Preyer 8 May 1871
Summary
Delighted that CD does not hesitate to follow his theory to its last consequences. "This is far more difficult in England than in Germany."
Wilhelm Müller in his new book [Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Rückenmarks (1871)], adduces many facts in favour of CD’s theory.
Various observations on the human ear. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 14 n.]
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 49–51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7745 |
To William Preyer 13 May 1871
Summary
Obliged for letter about human ear. Comments on ears and on E. R. Lankester’s idea about the ear-lobe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 13 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 267–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7756 |
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