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DCP-LETT-6508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
18 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 177
Summary:

Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.

Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6508F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis-Adolf (Louis) Bertillon
Date:
18 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Librairie la 42ème Ligne, Paris (dealers) (2018)
Summary:

Thanks for his article Valeur philosophique de l’hypothèse du transformisme (Bertillon 1870), which is very clear.

Would not himself trust so much in Agassiz’s conclusions.

Glad the essay has been published, as he believes ‘there are but few in France who admit the doctrine of evolution’.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7412

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:

Sends CD a ptarmigan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
10 [Dec] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 16
Summary:

Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.

Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8090

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A39
Summary:

The rabbits arrived safely.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8092

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
3 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:

Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8093

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Augustus Eisen
Date:
3 Dec 1871
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers)
Summary:

Thanks GAE for memoir on earthworms [Bidrag till Skandinaviens Oligochaetfauna (1871)]. CD by chance is just now observing "one little point in their habits". Will be happy to learn something about the places frequented by the various species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8094

From:
Ulrich Kirchenpauer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 201: 19
Summary:

Wishes to have CD’s autograph.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8094A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Date:
4 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Museo Nacional de Etnología, Madrid (FD4472)
Summary:

Thanks for the letter, photograph, and kind words about CD’s scientific work. [See 8088.]

CTEvS’s view of pseudova is new to CD;

he has not yet received the recent work on parthenogenesis

though he did receive the memoir on Polistes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 24–5)
Summary:

Sends corrections for new French edition of Origin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 82–83)
Summary:

Sends sheets [of the 6th ed. of Origin].

Thanks JVC for his letter about the sheep.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8097

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 172
Summary:

Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.

Now elicits CD’s views on chance.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8098

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 149
Summary:

Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.

Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.

CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
7 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (C.452)
Summary:

Refers GH to vol. 2, p. 431 of Variation for the "perplexed conclusion" at which CD has arrived on variation and design. Has nothing to add to this statement.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8101

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 13
Summary:

Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.

Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.

Gives news of speech and paper about CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8102

From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111v
Summary:

Announces that the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected CD a Foreign Associate.

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DCP-LETT-8103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
Date:
[after 9 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111
Summary:

Requests that PB express his thanks to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris for the honour conferred upon him [see 8102].

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DCP-LETT-8104

From:
Frank Walter Churchill Simmons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 185–6
Summary:

Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8105

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 14
Summary:

Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 213
Summary:

Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.

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