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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From A. R. Wallace 12 July 1871
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s article is sound, but so obscure ARW doubts utility of printing it separately.
Gives his own detailed analysis of Mivart’s attack.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B103–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7861 |
From Otto Kratz 12 July 1871
Summary
Sends photographs of very hairy Burmese natives; suggests they may be the "missing link".
Author: | Otto Kratz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7862 |
From John Coghlan 13 July 1871
Summary
JC offers to collect information under CD’s guidance.
Gives some notes on the colours of different horse breeds.
Mentions a wild duck that appears to be polygamous
and his observations on male ostriches with broods of young.
Author: | John Coghlan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7864 |
From George Grove 15 July 1871
Summary
The cat exhibition was a success. Asks whether the next one might be made to serve interests of science and of CD’s investigations by, for example, offering prizes for cats with special modifications or characters.
Author: | George Grove |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7866 |
From A. R. Wallace 16 July 1871
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7868 |
From Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften 16 July 1871
Summary
CD named a corresponding member of the mathematical-scientific section of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Author: | Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7868A |
From Andrew Smith 18 July 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for a letter to Galton which enabled him to get information on the inhabitants of a part of South Africa. Is trying to work up the ethnology of South Africa, but fears he will become disheartened.
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7872 |
From A. G. Butler 18 July 1871
Summary
Observations on ocelli of Brahmaea certhia.
Monstrosity born to a woman – half bear, half human.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 94–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7873 |
From G. C. Oxenden 21 July 1871
Summary
Will send Ophrys apifera var. lutea.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7876 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1871
Summary
Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.
Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7877 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 July 1871
Summary
Identifies Henslow’s mouse that used tail as prehensile climbing organ as Mus messorius.
Has not seen the Quarterly Review.
Inquires after Lyell’s health.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 264 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7879 |
From H. G. Cavendish Browne 26 July 1871
Author: | H. G. Cavendish Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7882 |
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Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Blair, R. H. | (1) |
Browne, H. G. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Blair, R. H. | (1) |