From Henry Holland [16 December 1871]
Summary
Sends CD a ptarmigan.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7412 |
From Francis Galton 2 December 1871
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8090 |
From Ulrich Kirchenpauer 4 December 1871
Author: | Ulrich Kirchenpauer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 201: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8094 |
From George Henslow 5 December 1871
Summary
Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.
Now elicits CD’s views on chance.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8097 |
From Federico Delpino 5 December 1871
Summary
Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.
Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.
CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8098 |
From Hubert Airy 9 December 1871
Summary
Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.
Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.
Gives news of speech and paper about CD.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8101 |
From Paul Broca 9 December 1871
Author: | Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 111v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8102 |
From F. W. C. Simmons 10 December 1871
Author: | Frank Walter Churchill Simmons |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 185–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8104 |
From Hubert Airy 12 December 1871
Summary
Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.
Author: | Hubert Airy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8105 |
From Louis Bouton 15 December 1871
Summary
Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.
Author: | Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8107A |
From J. D. Hooker [17 December 1871]
Summary
Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8108 |
From Ernst Haeckel 21 December 1871
Summary
Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.
His trip to Dalmatia.
German reception of Descent.
Mentions current work.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8114 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
From Francis Galton 22 December 1871
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A40; DAR 195.4: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118 |
From Archibald Geikie 24 December 1871
Summary
Sends a paper on denudation ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow 3 (1871): 153–90].
Author: | Archibald Geikie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8119 |
From A. C. Ramsay 27 December 1871
Summary
Sends description and measurements of the 18th century courtyard pavement of his house, the stones of which have sunk as a result of earthworm action [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8122 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 December [1871]
Summary
Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8122G |
From Archibald Geikie 29 December 1871
Author: | Archibald Geikie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8123 |
From G. H. Darwin 30 December 1871
Summary
Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8124 |
From Erasmus Galton 30 December 1871
Summary
After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.
Author: | Erasmus Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8125 |
letter | (27) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Airy, Hubert | (2) |
Geikie, Archibald | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bouton, Louis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Airy, Hubert | (2) |
Geikie, Archibald | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |