From James Murie 31 March 1872
Summary
Requests letter recommending him for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College.
Author: | James Murie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 322 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8264 |
From F. C. Donders 1 April 1872
Summary
His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.
Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8266 |
From G. J. Allman 13 April 1872
Summary
Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.
Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.
Author: | George James Allman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8269 |
From E. A. Darwin 3 April [1872]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8270 |
From Briton Riviere 3 April 1872
Summary
Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.
Author: | Briton Riviere |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8271 |
From W. W. Reade 3 April 1872
Summary
Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8272 |
From Chauncey Wright 3 April 1872
Summary
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Author: | Chauncey Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8273 |
From Adam Elliot 5 April 1872
Summary
Reports and asks questions about the offspring from the purported pairing of a woman with an ape.
Author: | Adam Elliot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8276 |
From G. C. Oxenden 8 April 1872
Summary
Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8281 |
From the Anthropological Society, Vienna 9 April 1872
Summary
Cancel: Diploma, not a letter.
Author: | Anthropological Society, Vienna |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283G |
From Roland Trimen 13 April 1872
Summary
On new [6th] edition of the Origin; comments on additions.
Owen’s attitude toward evolution.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8285 |
From Arthur Russell 15 April 1872
Summary
Has acquired some French frogs, Rana esculenta, which have mated with R. temporaria, but the spawn has not developed.
Asks whether anyone has successfully crossed frogs and toads.
Author: | Arthur John Edward (Arthur) Russell, Lord Arthur Russell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8286 |
From F. C. Donders 17 April 1872
Summary
Protests against CD’s statement that FCD’s letter will make him "strike out a good deal". He would never pardon himself for being the cause of any suppression by CD. It is for specialists to put their knowledge at CD’s service. He is mistaken if he thinks a knowledge of physiology is sufficient for writing a book on expression. It is CD’s conception and spirit that all await. Offers to read those parts of the proofs of Expression dealing with physiology.
Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8290 |
From Charles Crawley [18 April 1872]
Summary
His father sends a list (to be returned) of boarders at Shrewsbury School. Implies CD stayed at Mother Bromfield’s.
Sends Plautus quotation on expression.
Author: | Charles Crawley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Apr 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8291 |
From Francis Galton 19 April 1872
Summary
Has attended one more séance, which he describes; tells of the freedom investigators have to check, although they cannot prearrange, experiments.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A53–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8293 |
From Georg von Seidlitz 22 April 1872
Summary
Discusses his book [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1871)], in which he emphasises natural selection acts on inborn variation and is the exclusive cause of transmutation, in opposition to the theories of Haeckel and Moritz Wagner.
Author: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8298 |
From A. B. Meyer 25 April 1872
Summary
Sends information on expression: head and hand movements of the Tagals of the Philippines, and of Malaysians.
Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8300 |
From F. C. Donders 26 April 1872
Summary
Royal Netherlands Academy of Science has elected CD.
Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8301 |
From G. H. Darwin 2 May 1872
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 131–2, 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8307 |
From J. H. Schmick 3 May 1872
Summary
Having sent CD his two essays outlining his theory on "A secular transposition of oceans" [see 7368], JHS now forwards to CD a book he believes establishes his theory as an "eternal law of nature" [Die neue Theorie periodische säkularer Schwankungen des Seespiegels [periodischer!?] (1872)].
Author: | Jacob Heinrich Schmick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8309 |
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