To Nature 3 August [1872]
Summary
Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.
Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Nature, 8 August 1872, p. 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8448 |
To ? 9 August [1872–4]
Summary
Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Aug [1872-4] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Brandeis University, Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections (Autograph Collection (Bremer–Drew), Box 3, Folder 309) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8460F |
To Francis Galton 1 August [1872]
Summary
George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 1 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8442 |
To J. V. Carus 3 August [1872]
Summary
Has sent sheets of Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 86–87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8446 |
To A. R. Wallace 3 August [1872]
Summary
Encloses a letter to Nature [see 8448] correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering". ARW should tear up CD’s letter if he does not like it or plans to reply himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 3 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Waddington Auction (dealers) (July 1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8447 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 August [1872]
Summary
CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.
The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8449 |
To Oswald Heer 4 August [1872–4]
Summary
Thanks OH for two memoirs on the fossil flora of Bear Island and Spitzbergen [K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 8 (1869) no. 7; 9 (1870) no. 5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 4 Aug [1872-4] |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8454 |
To J. T. Gulick 8 August [1872]
Summary
Discusses a paper JTG wanted to read at a BAAS meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Thomas Gulick |
Date: | 8 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.423) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8457 |
To Francis Galton 9 August [1872]
Summary
Alteration in the arrangements for the carrier to collect the rabbit from FG and bring it to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 9 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Union College, Schaffer Library, Special Collections and Archives (Mullen Collection, SCA-1181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8461 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 10 August [1872]
Summary
Sends proofs and details [concerning VOK’s Russian translation of Expression (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 10 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8462 |
To Francis Galton 12 August [1872]
Summary
The carrier will call at University College on Thursday 15 August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 12 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | The Whiting family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8464F |
To John Scott 12 August 1872
Summary
Acknowledges a box of worm-casts from India and a bottle of worms in spirits. There is no memorandum.
His book on expression is finished and includes valuable information from JS.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 12 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8465F |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 17 August 1872
Summary
Cost of plates [for Expression] is greater than expected: £75 per 1000 copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 17 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8475 |
To Arthur Nicols [after 20 August 1872?]
Summary
Can believe animals communicate together, but does not know how.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Date: | [after 20 Aug 1872?] |
Classmark: | Nicols 1885, p. 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8477F |
To Edward Vivian 23 August [1872]
Summary
Thanks for valuable information [about worms?]. "The more I investigate the extreme amount of work effected, the more perplexed as yet I become."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Vivian |
Date: | 23 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR474) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8485 |
To Anton Dohrn 24 August [1872]
Summary
Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to the library.
If AD is interested, he will send a copy of Expression when it comes out.
Invites AD to visit Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 24 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 700 & 700a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486 |
To Hubert Airy 24 August 1872
Summary
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
Date: | 24 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486A |
To A. R. Wallace 28 August [1872]
Summary
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 28 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8488 |
To F. W. Harmer 29 August 1872
Summary
Explains that William Penman Lyon has misquoted CD in Lyon [1871].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Harmer |
Date: | 29 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | Ipswich Museum (IPSMG: R.1924-134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8490F |
To J. D. Hooker 29 August [1872]
Summary
Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8491 |
Cooke, R. F. | (8) |
John Murray | (8) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
Cooke, R. F. | (8) |
John Murray | (8) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |