From A. G. Butler 27 March 1873
Summary
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829 |
From Samuel Butler to Francis Darwin 24 September 1877
Summary
Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.
| Author: | Samuel Butler |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 199.5: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11152 |
From Raphael Meldola 12 March 1872
Summary
Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.
CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.
| Author: | Raphael Meldola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8240 |
From T. H. Huxley 3 February 1880
Summary
Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: B82–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12457 |
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- … Butler 1879 ). CD had had a similar falling out with St George Jackson Mivart after Mivart suggested in an anonymous essay review in the Quarterly Review that, in an article on marriage, George Howard Darwin spoke in an approving strain of the encouragement of vice to check population growth ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70, G. H. Darwin 1873 ; …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
