From Chauncey Wright 1 August 1871
Summary
Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.
Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7890 |
From L. H. Morgan 1 August 1871
Summary
John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.
Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891 |
From L. H. Morgan [1 August 1871]
Summary
Sends abstract of a paper on hybridity read by Edward Moore to a natural history club in Rochester, NY. Argues the necessity of hybridity on CD’s theory.
Author: | Lewis Henry Morgan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Aug 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 240/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7891F |
From Asa Gray 3 August 1871
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7894 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 August 1871
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 73–77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7896 |
From C. A. Canfield 5 August 1871
Summary
Sends a series of factual corrections to Variation and Descent: barking of coyotes and colour of wild American horses.
Author: | Colbert Austin Canfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7897 |
From A. R. Wallace 7 August 1871
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 85–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7899 |
From Michele Lessona 5 August 1871
Summary
On the malar bone [see Descent 1: 124].
Has verified hermaphroditism of Serranus and other fishes as normal [see Descent 1: 208].
Author: | Michele Lessona |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7901 |
From W. E. Darwin 15 August 1871
Summary
Sends on letter from Hacon about Captain Litchfield’s will.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7904F |
From J. D. Hooker 15 August 1871
Summary
Differences in violet and honeysuckle cases.
Huxley basted Thomson awfully in Section D [of BAAS].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 78–79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7905 |
From Emile Alglave 17 August 1871
Summary
Has reached an understanding with CD’s French translator [J. Moulinié] and publisher [C. Reinwald] for Descent. Has printed first chapter in last number of Revue Scientifique and sent CD copies; is sending proofs of translation of next chapter for CD to correct.
Author: | Émile Alglave |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7906 |
From James Croll 17 August 1871
Summary
Refused to write a treatise on geological time.
His paper on W. B. Carpenter’s theory of ocean currents is appearing soon.
Author: | James Croll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7908 |
From James Crichton-Browne 18 August 1871
Summary
Sends CD a volume of West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports [1 (1871)], which contains some observations on blushing.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7910 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 19 August [1871]
Summary
A. J. Gaudry is one of few supporters of Darwinism in Paris.
The climate is so hostile that Kovalevsky must mitigate his views so as not to irritate the French.
Working on Anchitherium, which he believes is intermediate between Palaeotherium and the horse.
His brother-in-law has been arrested.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7911 |
From F. E. Abbot 20 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for interest in FEA’s work and for money for Index. Sends 1870 volume of Index.
Praises CD’s services to free-thought.
Asks for CD’s view of the influence of his theory on religion, to use in lecture.
Author: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7912 |
From J. F. McLennan 21 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for helping with arrangements for an American edition [of Primitive marriage (1865)].
He is an old friend of CD’s son-in-law, R. B. Litchfield, and of John Lubbock.
Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7913 |
From Roland Trimen [21] August [1871]
Summary
Intends to visit CD at Haredene.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21] Aug [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7915 |
From James Lamont 23 August 1871
Author: | James Lamont, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 110–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7917 |
From W. B. Dawkins 27 August 1871
Summary
Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7918 |
From J. W. Clark 31 August 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated to the Museum.
Asks for a live Helix pomatia for dissection.
Author: | John Willis Clark |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7919 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Alglave, Émile | (1) |
Canfield, C. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Morgan, L. H. | (2) |
Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
Alglave, Émile | (1) |