From Friedrich Rolle 28 January 1866
Summary
Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.
Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.
Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.
Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.
| Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4986 |
To Friedrich Rolle 1 February [1866]
Summary
Thanks for all five numbers of Der Mensch [1866].
Had not known that Rütimeyer had written on modification of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4992 |
From Friedrich Rolle 12 April 1866
Summary
Gustav von Leonhard and Hans Bruno Geinitz’s Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie [1862–79] unfriendly to CD’s theory.
Lists various German publications dealing with CD’s theory.
| Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5055 |
To Friedrich Rolle 21 April 1866
Summary
Thanks for information about publications.
Hopes Hans Geinitz will take care in correcting Bronn’s translation [of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5063 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Rolle, Friedrich | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Rolle, Friedrich | (2) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Rolle, Friedrich | (4) |
