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From Emile Alglave   9 March 1871

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Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.

Author:  Émile Alglave
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7558

From John Murray   9 March [1871]

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JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 391
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7559

From G. H. Darwin   [3–9 March 1871]

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Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [3–9 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 37–40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7561

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [after 9 March 1871]

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Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 9 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 60–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7562

From George Busk   10 March 1871

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Clarification of the supra-condyloid foramen in humans and animals.

Author:  George Busk
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 21–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7563

From G. B. Murdoch   10 March 1871

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Relation of surplus vigour of males to sexual selection.

Author:  George Brown Murdoch
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 90: 68–71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7564

From Francis Darwin   [after 4 March 1871]

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Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 4 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7564F

From R. M. Kettle   10 March [1871]

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Requests permission to quote from CD’s letters to Charles Boner in her edition [of Memoirs and letters of Charles Boner (1871)].

Author:  Rosa Mackenzie Kettle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 169: 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7565

From Asa Gray   10 and 14 March [1871]

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Has received CD’s new book [Descent].

Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 and 14 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 165: 174
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7567

From A. R. Wallace   11 March 1871

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Admiration for vol. 2 of Descent, and plans for his review of it for the Academy [2 (1871): 177–82].

News of his new residence.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 106: B98–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7569

From Arthur Nicols   11 March 1871

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His previous account of Phascolarctos was based on notes made at the time of observation.

His report of the successful adoption of a koala infant by a cat comes from a trustworthy observer.

Author:  Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 172: 56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7570

From B. J. Sulivan   11 March 1871

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Recounts case of parrot whose talking seems to show "power of connecting definite sounds with definite ideas" [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.].

Has not seen CD’s daughter yet. Hopes the fine weather will continue while she is there [in Bournemouth].

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 96–100, DAR 177: 296
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7571

From John Jeremiah   11 March 1871

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Case of cat transmitting a habit to her offspring.

Author:  John Jeremiah
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 101–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7572

From Patrick Matthew   12 March 1871

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Encloses an article he wrote for the Scotsman [9 Mar 1871, p. 5].

Wishes he had time to write a critique of Descent. There is evidence of design and benevolence in nature. Beauty cannot be accounted for by natural selection.

Author:  Patrick Matthew
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Mar 1871
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7576

From Robert Swinhoe   14 March 1871

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Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.

Author:  Robert Swinhoe
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 177: 335
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7580

From W. R. Greg   14 March [1871]

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Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].

Author:  William Rathbone Greg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 90: 127–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7581

From F. C. Donders   14 March 1871

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Thanks CD for Descent.

Sends a copy of his oratio inauguralis on De harmonie van het dierlijke leven [1848] in which he espoused evolution, but did not see the influence of natural selection.

Author:  Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 227
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7582

From V. O. Kovalevsky   14 March 1871

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Russian translation of Descent in progress, but the Minister of Interior has banned CD’s work and the book will be seized.

His foolish brother-in-law, Mayor of Montmartre, attempted to defend their section against the government.

CD’s queries on man and camels have gone to Alexander [Kovalevsky] in Sinai.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 169: 88
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7583

From J. V. Carus   15 March 1871

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Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7586

From A. R. Wallace   [15 March 1871]

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Although their language is different, the Bugis are typical Malays both physically and mentally.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 106: B102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7587
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