From D. Thomas [after 11 March 1871]
Summary
CD is "bent upon linking the monkey race to us"; DT finds it striking that CD should so resemble an ape.
Author: | D. Thomas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13849 |
From Frederic Bateman 31 March [1871]
Summary
Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.
Author: | Frederic Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7155 |
From Leonard Darwin [after 4 March 1871]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7405 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [21 March 1871]
Summary
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7406 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [before 3 March 1871]
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 41–53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7470 |
From J. J. Aubertin 1 March 1871
Summary
Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;
reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.
Author: | John James Aubertin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7526 |
From John Tyndall 1 March [1871]
Summary
JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7527 |
From James Murie 2 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
He is "driven" from his post.
He has homologised the face muscles of cetaceans and man. Although the former do not show expression, the nose and upper lip muscles are highly developed.
Author: | James Murie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7531 |
From W. R. Greg 2 March [1871?]
Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar [1871?] |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 149–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7532 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 2 March 1871
Summary
Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 21–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7533 |
From A. F. Baillie 3 March 1871
Summary
Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.
Author: | Alexander Francis Baillie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7536 |
From J. J. Moulinié 3 March 1871
Summary
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7538 |
From Herbert Spencer 3 March 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7540 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [3–9 March 1871]
Summary
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3–9 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 56–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7542 |
From J. J. Aubertin 4 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for letter and invitation to come to Down.
Sorry about CD’s bad health; Brazilian climate has improved his own.
Sorry to hear Miss Butler is dead.
Author: | John James Aubertin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7545 |
From W. W. Reade 4 March 1871
Summary
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7546 |
From J. F. McLennan 6 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7549 |
From Arthur Nicols 7 March 1871
Summary
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7553 |
From John Tyndall 8 March [1871]
Summary
Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7556 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 8 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.
The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7557 |
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Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (4) |
Alglave, Émile | (2) |
Aubertin, J. J. | (2) |
Busk, George | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (72) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (4) |
Alglave, Émile | (2) |
Aubertin, J. J. | (2) |