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DCP-LETT-7204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.379)
Summary:

Comments on QdeB’s volume [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)]. Mentions error concerning his views on Parus and nuthatch.

Discusses Canis magellanicus.

Discusses reception of his views in France and Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7285

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
20 July [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74)
Summary:

Sends list of his publications.

Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7285F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
21 July [1870]
Source of text:
Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks Quatrefages for his work on species. Explains that he received the Wollaston Medal for his three geological works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
23 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382)
Summary:

Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.

Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.

Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.

"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8159

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
15 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 289
Summary:

Obliged for QdeB’s efforts [to have CD elected member of Académie Française].

With regard to stress that QdeB lays on man’s walking on two legs, no one attributes much significance to difference in mode of locomotion between seals and terrestrial Carnivora or kangaroos and other marsupials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.409)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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