To ? 1 July 1871
Summary
Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 July 1871 |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7844 |
To Nature 1 July [1871]
Summary
Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Nature, 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846 |
From G. H. Darwin [c. 17 July 1871]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 17 July 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6765 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 17 [July] 1871
Summary
Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.
Sexual preference of a blue turbit.
CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [July] 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7822 |
From G. H. Darwin [17 July 1871]
Summary
Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 July 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7841 |
To Edward Bartlett 1 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for ducks’ skins, for which he encloses postal order.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Bartlett |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7843 |
To A. G. Butler 1 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks AGB for "various notes".
Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7845 |
To C. V. Riley 1 July [1871]
Summary
Would be delighted to see CVR at Down, but is in precarious health and cannot talk to anyone for more than an hour.
Wrote to CVR a few weeks ago to thank him for his book [see 7794].
Will expect CVR on Thursday unless he hears otherwise.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 1 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (Fall 1996 catalogue) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846F |
From J. D. Hooker 3 July 1871
Summary
Plans to write an account of his trip to Morocco and, with John Ball, the botanical geography, for Linnean Society.
Results mainly negative; the Atlas exhibits "the dying out of European flora".
Only two or three beetles above 8000ft.
Disappointed that Canary Island species are absent from Atlas mountains; but an ocean current along Moroccan coast should help migration of Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan seeds to Canaries and Madeira.
Describes Lyell’s poor physical condition. Asks CD for his observations of symptoms.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 69–70, DAR 205.2 (Letters): 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7848 |
To W. R. Grove 4 July [1871]
Summary
Has never before noticed with care the markings on finger-ends. Compares them to the complex whirl-pool patterns of human foetal lanugo.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robert Grove |
Date: | 4 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7849 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1871]
Summary
Lady Lyell’s anxiety over Lyell’s health.
Preparing new edition of Origin.
Asks whether anything was observed [in Morocco] on expressions.
Did JDH notice whether pollen-masses in Ophrys apifera in N. Africa fall on the stigma, as in England?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 197–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7850 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 July 1871
Summary
He did observe that Ophrys apifera fertilised itself as CD described and O. lutea as well.
Moroccans are too civilised, taciturn, and unfriendly to make anything of them for expressions of emotions.
Moraines and negative results on Atlas alpine flora are the only points of the journey worth much.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7851 |
To C. F. Bergstedt? 6 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks author of an anonymous Swedish review of CD’s works [in Samtiden, Vecksckrift för politik och litteratur, ed. C. F. Bergstedt, nos. 23–5 (1871): 358–64, 374–81, 390–7]. CD is surprised to learn the Origin has appeared in Swedish [1869].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Fredrik Bergstedt |
Date: | 6 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Kungliga biblioteket, National Library of Sweden |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7852 |
From J. J. Moulinié 7 July 1871
Summary
JJM’s Origin translation is being held up so that it can conform to the 6th English edition.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7853 |
From W. R. Grove [5–8 July 1871]
Summary
Mammae in human males.
The role of natural selection in the development of beards and manes of animals.
Hereditary pointing in setters.
Author: | William Robert Grove |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5–8 July 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 190–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7854 |
To C. V. Riley 8 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for letter of introduction for his sons visiting America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
Date: | 8 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (15 January 2010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7854F |
To A. R. Wallace 9 July [1871]
Summary
Requests advice about Chauncey Wright’s article on Mivart’s Genesis of species [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103]. CD thinks of publishing it as a pamphlet to counter impact of Mivart’s criticism of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 9 July [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7855 |
To W. R. Grove 9 July [1871]
Summary
Does not think WRG’s theory [about ridges of skin on palm and finger-ends?] will hold.
Does not believe the beard in monkeys and goats could be protective like the lion’s mane.
Thanks him for fact about setters.
Is perplexed about the reported milk secretion in pubescent boys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robert Grove |
Date: | 9 July [1871] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7856 |
From R. H. Blair 11 July 1871
Author: | Robert Hugh Blair |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7857 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 July [1871]
Summary
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 12 July [1871] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7858 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Blair, R. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Grove, W. R. | (2) |
Riley, C. V. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Grove, W. R. | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |