From Alexander Agassiz [before 1 June 1871]
Summary
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7415 |
From O. G. Rejlander [1871]
Summary
Observations on expression.
| Author: | Oscar Gustaf Rejlander |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 189: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7418 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 April 1871?]
Summary
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Apr 1871?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7420 |
From Francis Wedgwood 4 January 1871
Summary
Depth of furrows in old field.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7428 |
From W. W. Reade 6 January [1871]
Summary
On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 170–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429 |
From Federico Delpino 7 January 1871
Summary
Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 111: A77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7430 |
From A. F. Boardman 8 January 1871
Summary
More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.
| Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7431 |
From Francis Galton 9 January 1871
Summary
Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7432 |
From Francis Wedgwood 9 January 1871
Summary
Appearance and depth of furrows in old field.
| Author: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7433 |
From W. W. Reade 10 January 1871
Summary
Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.
Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7435 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 January [1871]
Summary
Has received (from CD) the sheets of the second volume [of Descent].
He fears he has offended CD or someone in England and he begs to know his offence.
His brother is working at the Red Sea and wishes CD to know that he has evidence for the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates in their nervous systems.
Plans to go to Paris upon its imminent capitulation to help his sister-in-law.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7442 |
From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871
Summary
Meeting with CD postponed.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7443 |
From St G. J. Mivart 19 January 1871
Summary
Has sent CD his book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has not said a word in opposition to CD except where his view of the truth necessitated it.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7447 |
From J. B. Innes 21 January 1871
Summary
JBI regrets his part in appointments of his successors.
His friendship with CD and its effect on his fellow clerics.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7449 |
From St G. J. Mivart 22 January 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for vol. 1 of Descent. Feels nothing but sympathy and esteem for a writer labouring for the promotion of what he conscientiously believes to be the truth.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7451 |
From St G. J. Mivart 24 January 1871
Summary
Is sorry CD found Genesis of species unfairly critical. Assures CD of his just intentions and offers to alter certain words and phrases in a new edition. Emphasises his high regard for CD but fears his views are leading to religious decay.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7454 |
From William Bowman 26 January 1871
Summary
Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 269 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7456 |
From J. V. Carus 26 January 1871
Summary
A bibliographical query arising in translation of Descent. Two misprints noted.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7457 |
From St G. J. Mivart 26 January 1871
Summary
Is glad CD does not believe he is biased by an odium theologicum. Comments on the first volume of Descent. Is convinced of the truth of evolution, but believes natural selection plays only a secondary role and that man is fundamentally different from the rest of creation.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7458 |
From A. R. Wallace 27 January 1871
Summary
Response to [vol. 1 of] CD’s Descent.
Not yet convinced on sexual selection and protection, though their differences are not so great as CD thinks.
On man, he does not think CD has accounted for every step of his development by "ascertained laws".
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7460 |
| letter | (446) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
| Murray, John (b) | (13) |
| Reade, W. W. | (12) |
| Galton, Francis | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (446) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
| Murray, John (b) | (13) |
| Reade, W. W. | (12) |
