From W. D. Fox 2[0–9?] October [1871 or 1873?]
Summary
Fox hopes to see CD in London in November.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20-9 Oct 187120-9 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4639F |
From Albert Günther 1 October 1871
Summary
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Is hard at work examining Ceratodus.
Encloses discussion of Mus species with functionally prehensile tails.
Encloses argument against freshwater fish entering the sea.
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 246; DAR 205.3: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7980 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 October 1871]
Summary
On Huxley’s article for Contemporary Review [see 7977] confuting Mivart. It has cheered him,
for he is very low about his mother’s state.
Is also in detestable position with "my lord and master", A. S. Ayrton. JDH has denounced him to the [First] Lord of the Treasury [W. E. Gladstone] for his conduct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Oct 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7981 |
From J. L. A. Hope 4 October 1871
Author: | James Louis Alexander Hope |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 112–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7985 |
From St G. J. Mivart 4 October 1871
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s article. Admits it is clever, but hardly expected CD to think it a serious defence of his position.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7986 |
From H. B. Dobell 6 October 1871
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of his suggestion that a distinctive mark of species may be the duration of pregnancy, incubation, or germination.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7989 |
From T. N. Gill 6 October 1871
Summary
Sends some articles on mammals [possibly "On the relations of the orders of mammals", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 19 (1870): 267–70, and "On the characteristics of the primary groups of the class of mammals", ibid. 20 (1871): 284–306].
He is a disciple, convinced of CD’s theory of evolution and of natural selection.
In the U. S. almost all refuse to recognize natural selection.
Author: | Theodore Nicholas Gill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7990 |
From J. V. Carus 7 October 1871
Summary
Publisher would like to produce a translation of Expression. JVC offers to translate it.
Sends passage from Albertus Magnus on colour of horses.
Offers explanation of white colour of sea-birds.
Schweizerbart is now reprinting Descent, nearly all the first 3000 copies having been sold;
new editions of Origin
and of Variation are also planned.
Possibility of a new German translation of Journal of researches.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 80, DAR 161: 81/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7991 |
From Hermann Müller 9 October 1871
Summary
Is preparing a work on fertilisation of flowers, and wants to add a list of works containing observations on cross-fertilisation of plants. Asks CD for any references he may have.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7997 |
From J. K. Fowler 9 October 1871
Summary
Is preparing paper on breeding ["Breeding facts and principles", J. Farmers’ Club (1871): 45–53]. Seeks CD’s advice and assistance. Believes male parent influences external appearance and female the internal organisation.
Author: | John Kersley Fowler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7998 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
From Osbert Salvin 10 October 1871
Summary
Encloses notes [missing] that he has made for CD on looking through his dried skins of American Anatidae.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8001 |
From Chauncey Wright 11 October 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
His memoir on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415] will soon be printed.
Has met CD’s sons.
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8002 |
From Asa Gray 12 October 1871
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8004 |
From W. H. Flower 12 October 1871
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8005 |
From R. F. Albrecht 13 October 1871
Summary
CD has omitted in all his works one of the most interesting causes of variation, domestic or wild – i.e., frightening of a pregnant animal; quotes case of eight-footed horse from a French translation of G. S. W. von Adler.
Author: | R. F. Albrecht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8006 |
From Osbert Salvin 14 October 1871
Summary
Is glad his notes on ducks are useful; would like them back when CD has finished with them as they might help him to put the South American Anatidae in order.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8009 |
From Edward Bartlett 16 October 1871
Summary
Replies on how Egyptian geese feed in the water; they do not move heads laterally like ducks sifting water; they tear herbage like common geese.
Author: | Edward Bartlett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8011 |
From George Busk 16 October 1871
Summary
Returns CD’s MS [for Origin 6th ed.] on the defensive organs of the Polyzoa, with his comments.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8012 |
From H. B. Brady 18 October 1871
Summary
On visit to Boston was told by N. S. Shaler how habits of rattlesnake are consistent with natural selection. Informs CD, as rattlesnake is considered by some a difficult case for his theory.
Author: | Henry Bowman Brady |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8015 |
letter | (37) |
Salvin, Osbert | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Koch, Heinrich | (3) |
Baranoff, W. | (2) |
Brady, H. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Salvin, Osbert | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Koch, Heinrich | (3) |
Baranoff, W. | (2) |