From Francis Darwin [after August 1872?]
Summary
Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Aug 1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13795 |
From Francis Darwin [before 22 August 1872]
Summary
Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.3: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5556 |
From D. Appleton & Co. 1 August 1872
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8443 |
From A. S. Packard Jr 1 August 1872
Summary
CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.
Author: | Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8445 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 August 1872
Summary
Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].
Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B111–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8450 |
From J. T. Gulick 6 August 1872
Summary
Sends synopsis of his paper "On diversity of evolution" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 11 (1873): 496–505] in which he attempts to show some of the means, other than natural selection, of modification of species.
Author: | John Thomas Gulick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8453 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky [before 8 August 1872]
Summary
So far VOK has lost money on his translation of Descent because of pirate editions.
Agrees to share profits on Expression.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 8 Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8456 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 8 August [1872]
Summary
Wishes to come to Down to make arrangements for Russian translation of Expression.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8459 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky [12–17 August 1872]
Summary
CD cannot omit mention of Wilhelm Wundt’s Thierseele [Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] in his book.
Murray could control the number of copies of translation of Expression sold in Russia by the number of heliotypes he will supply.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12–17 Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8464 |
From Francis Galton 11 August 1872
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8465 |
From J. J. Weir 14 August 1872
Summary
Hostility of birds toward others with same colour;
nuptial plumage.
Spiza cyanea and Spiza ciris.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8470 |
From D. F. Tyler 15 August 1872
Summary
Parallel quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Descent about absorption of heat by different colours; applies to winter and summer plumage of birds.
Reasoning power in dogs.
Author: | Daniel F Tyler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 181–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8472 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky [after 12 August 1872]
Summary
VOK is marking the passages [in Wundt, Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] that may interest CD.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 Aug 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8476 |
From Arthur Nicols 20 August 1872
Summary
Offers observations on expression in Australian dogs, since he knows CD plans to publish on the subject.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8477 |
From K. M. Giuntsburg 20 August 1872
Summary
Sends a paper in which he has applied CD’s theory of natural selection to the explanation of the mortality rate of new-born infants ["Die Kindersterblickeit", J. Kinderkrankheiten (1872)].
Author: | Charles Günzbourg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8478 |
From Johan IJkema 21 August 1872
Summary
Wishes to have Dutch publication rights for a translation of Expression.
Author: | Johan (Ykema) IJkema |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8480 |
From Anton Dohrn 21 August 1872
Summary
Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.
Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.
Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8481 |
From Arthur Nicols 23 August 1872
Summary
Doubts reported cases of homing instinct in dogs.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8484 |
From Anton Dohrn 28 August 1872
Summary
Will call on CD next year, when he will have worked out the embryology of Amphioxus; he believes it is not primitive but a degenerate form of fish. He believes the true ancestors of vertebrates are annelids.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8489 |
From F. W. Harmer 28 August 1872
Summary
Has entered a newspaper controversy with W. P. Lyon [Homo versus Darwin (1872)] who ascribes to CD the saying "natural selection is a kind of god that never slumbers nor sleeps". FWH does not believe CD made this statement.
Author: | Frederic William Harmer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8490 |
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Cooke, R. F. | (9) |
John Murray | (9) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (5) |
D. Appleton & Co | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (38) |
Cooke, R. F. | (9) |
John Murray | (9) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (5) |
D. Appleton & Co | (2) |