From V. O. Kovalevsky 28 February [1870]
Summary
Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.
The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7121 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [March 1870]
Summary
On the expression of disagreeable surprise.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7122 |
From Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton 2 March [1870]
Summary
CD was good enough to send notice of his new book [Descent] for the first number of the Academy; asks for further contributions and suggestions.
Author: | Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7125 |
From George Henslow 3 March 1870
Summary
Experiments with Lapageria.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7126 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1870?]
Summary
Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 7 Mar [1870?] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7127A |
To J. D. Hooker 8 March [1870]
Summary
Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.
Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].
Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 167–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7128 |
From St George Jackson Mivart 8 March [1870]
Summary
Will not be returning to London for a week; writes to save CD’s calling.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7129 |
From Hermann Müller 8 March 1870
Summary
HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7130 |
To Hermann Müller 14 March 1870
Summary
Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 14 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884, pp. 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7131 |
To Asa Gray 15 March [1870]
Summary
The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".
Cat-like behaviour in dogs.
Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;
wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7132 |
From Francis Galton 15 March 1870
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7133 |
From James Crichton-Browne 15 March 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Origin.
Encloses extensive, but incomplete, notes on expression among the insane, dealing specifically with blushing and the actions of the platysma and grief muscles.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 310, DAR 161: 323/2–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7134 |
To Edwin Ray Lankester 15 March [1870]
Summary
CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edwin Ray Lankester |
Date: | 15 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7135 |
From R. F. Albrecht 16 March 1870
Summary
Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.
Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.
Author: | R. F. Albrecht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7136 |
From John Jenner Weir 17 March 1870
Summary
Describes the unusual appearance of a horse whose mother had previously borne a foal by a quagga. The effect of one mating on the subsequent pregnancy of another mating is explained by JJW using Pangenesis.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7137 |
To J. J. Weir 17 March [1870]
Summary
CD thinks JJW’s account [in 7137] is significant for a theory of generation and should go to some scientific society; suggests additional data is needed. Quotes cases of subsequent progeny apparently affected by a previous impregnation. Perhaps not prudent to allude to "despised" Pangenesis, which CD fully believes will have its day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 17 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7138 |
From Francis Galton 17 March 1870
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7139 |
From Georg Recht 17 March 1870
Summary
Explains that law of inertia, and most of modern mechanics, is all wrong. Explains his concept of "elasticity" of bodies. Applies it to physiology.
Author: | Georg Recht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7140 |
From F. C. Donders 17 May 1870
Summary
The illness and death of his daughter have delayed his answers to CD’s queries. He has, however, worked on the circulation of the eye and has almost finished a paper on it, which he will send to CD. In general, the views of Charles Bell are confirmed.
As for CD’s second query, he doubts that the relationship exists, but will answer fully in next letter.
Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7141 |
To James Crichton-Browne 18 March 1870
Summary
JC-B’s essays are the fullest CD has received. His observations on blushing closely agree with James Paget’s. Platysma and horror: Duchenne’s statement doubtful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 18 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7142 |
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