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From John Michels   3 May 1870

Summary

Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?

Author:  John Michels
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 May 1870
Classmark:  DAR 171: 175
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10495

From E. A. Darwin   [1870–81]

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Share dealings.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1870–81]
Classmark:  DAR 105: 111
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12379

From Benjamin Clarke   1 November [1870]

Summary

Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.

Writes of a recent book.

Author:  Benjamin Clarke
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Nov [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5662

From St G. J. Mivart   [25 June 1870?]

Summary

Sets a time for CD to call.

Author:  St George Jackson Mivart
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25 June 1870?]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 181
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5927

From Francis Darwin   [before 4 January 1870]

Summary

Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 4 Jan 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6520F

From Gilbert William Child   26 January [1870]

Summary

Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).

Author:  Gilbert William Child
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Jan [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 161: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6579

From William Boyd Dawkins   29 January [1870]

Summary

Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Jan [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 122
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6582

From G. W. Child   16 February [1870]

Summary

Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.

Author:  Gilbert William Child
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Feb [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 161: 142
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6617

From J. D. Hooker   [7 March 1870]

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Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Mar 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 42–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6646

From J. D. Hooker   [31 May 1870]

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Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 May 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6964

From W. E. Darwin   [c. 17 February 1870]

Summary

Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 17 Feb 1870]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7039F

From G. H. Darwin   [20 April 1870]

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Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20 Apr 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7046

From Federico Delpino   [1870]

Summary

Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.

Author:  Federico Delpino
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7055

From E. A. Darwin   19 [December 1870]

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Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.

Comments on George’s escape.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [Dec 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B69–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7066

From E. A. Darwin   21 [December 1870]

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Confirms number of shares.

Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 [Dec 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B71–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7067

From Charles Ottley Groom Napier   January 1870

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COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].

Author:  Charles Ottley Groom Napier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 165: 228
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7068

From William Winwood Reade   [c. 8 or 9 April 1870]

Summary

Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [8 or 9] Apr 1870
Classmark:  DAR 176: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7069

From Charles Boner   8 January 1870

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Is glad CD liked Chamois hunting [in Bavaria (1853, 1860)].

Regrets CD’s poor health.

Sends his book, Transylvania [1865].

Author:  Charles Boner
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 160: 239
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7074

From Adolf Reuter   11 January 1870

Summary

Sends monstrous oranges,

red grape leaves,

and a bean with blue fruits (a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Dolichos species).

Author:  Adolf Reuter
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 176: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7075

From Anton Dohrn   13 January 1870

Summary

Thanks CD for his support and for his cautionary advice.

Will send his work on embryology of arthropods as soon as it is finished [Bau und Entwicklung der Arthropoden (1870)].

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 162: 205
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7076
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Acland, C. L. (1)
Agassiz, Alexander (1)
Albrecht, R. F. (1)
Appleton, C. E. C. B. (2)
Barrande, Joachim (1)
Bates, H. W. (2)
Bence Jones, Henry (1)
Beneden, Édouard van (1)
Benson, Berry (1)
Bissell, G. P. (1)
Boner, Charles (1)
Broca, Paul (1)
Brodie, B. C., Jr (1)
Brooke, C. A. J. (1)
Butler, A. G. (1)
Canestrini, Giovanni (1)
Carus, J. V. (3)
Caton, J. D. (1)
Child, G. W. (2)
Clarke, Benjamin (1)
Cobbe, F. P. (1)
Cooke, R. F. (1)
Crichton-Browne, James (3)
Cupples, A. J. (1)
Cupples, George (5)
D. Appleton & Co (1)
Dareste, Camille (1)
Darwin, E. A. (4)
Darwin, Francis (5)
Darwin, G. H. (4)
Darwin, H. E. (2)
Darwin, W. E. (1)
Dawkins, W. B. (1)
Delpino, Federico (3)
Denison, Emma (1)
Dohrn, Anton (1)
Donders, F. C. (3)
Douglas, A. J. (1)
Farr, William (2)
Farrer, T. H. (6)
Forbes, David (2)
Forster, Thompson (1)
Fox, W. D. (3)
Gage, John (1)
Galton, Francis (10)
Gascoyen, G. G. (1)
Gascoyne-Cecil, R. A. T. (1)
Gray, Asa (4)
Gray, J. L. (1)
Groom Napier, C. O. (1)
Günther, Albert (3)
Haeckel, Ernst (1)
Harrison, L. C. (2)
Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus (1)
Hayden, F. V. (1)
Henslow, George (1)
Hildebrand, Friedrich (1)
Hoffmann, Hermann (2)
Holland, Henry (1)
Hooker, J. D. (8)
Hordern, E. F. (1)
Huxley, T. H. (2)
Innes, J. B. (1)
John Murray (1)
Koninck, L.-G. De (1)
Kovalevskaya, S. V. (1)
Kovalevsky, A. O. (1)
Kovalevsky, V. O. (11)
Litchfield, H. E. (2)
Lubbock, E. F. (1)
Lubbock, John (4)
Merrell, S. A. (1)
Michels, John (1)
Mivart, S. G. J. (5)
Morgan, L. H. (1)
Mostyn Owen, M. S. (2)
Murray, John (b) (7)
Müller, Fritz (2)
Müller, Hermann (1)
Newton, Alfred (1)
Nicol, Patrick (1)
Ogle, William (3)
Orton, James (1)
Parker, M. S. (2)
Pender, Emma (1)
Pender, John (1)
Preyer, William (2)
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages (2)
Quetelet, Adolphe (1)
Reade, W. W. (8)
Recht, Georg (1)
Renard, Charles (1)
Reuter, Adolf (1)
Rolleston, George (1)
Rye, E. C. (2)
Rérolle, Louis (2)
Salvin, Osbert (1)
Schmick, J. H. (1)
Sedgwick, Adam (1)
Smith, W. G. (1)
Stoddard, C. W. (1)
Sulivan, B. J. (3)
Swale, William (1)
Swinhoe, Robert (2)
Tegetmeier, W. B. (1)
Thomson, C. W. (1)
Turner, William (1)
Tyndall, John (1)
Vivian, H. H. (1)
Wallace, A. R. (3)
Weale, J. P. M. (1)
Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1)
Wedgwood, L. C. (2)
Weir, J. J. (3)
Wood, T. W. (3)
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