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DCP-LETT-7803

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419)
Summary:

Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].

Invites him to visit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

Sends subscription for the Index.

FEA’s article ["The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion", Index 15 Apr 1871] is one of the most striking CD has read.

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DCP-LETT-7805

From:
Gerhard Friedrich (Gerhard) Rohlfs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 183–4
Summary:

Various observations from his experience in Africa relevant to Descent.

Fertility of hybrids of blacks and whites.

Protective coloration of Sahara animals.

Natives’ ideas of female beauty.

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DCP-LETT-7806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 4
Summary:

Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".

Has invited Michael Foster to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7807

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 116
Summary:

Discusses the origin and advantages of sexual differentiation in terms of division of labour.

Discusses the origin of the giraffe’s neck and the unsoundness of St G. J. Mivart’s view with respect to it.

Points out an error in Descent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7808

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
7 June 1871
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

Directions to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7809

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
8 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.407)
Summary:

Comments on dubious story involving natural history of Formosa. Suggests that Robert Swinhoe could give an answer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7810

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gerhard Friedrich (Gerhard) Rohlfs
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D)
Summary:

Thanks GR, who made one of the most wonderful expeditions on record, for some notes which he will consider if he ever has to prepare a new edition [of Descent].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7811

From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 81
Summary:

Argues that coloration of eggs is a protective adaptation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7812

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 239
Summary:

Will call tomorrow.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
9 June [1871]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Mentions the difficulties in explaining the separation of sexes and Carl Nägeli’s view that the sexes of plants were primordially distinct.

Has been experimenting for five or six years to demonstrate that the benefits of crossing are the same as those derived from a slight change of conditions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7814

From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 37
Summary:

Michele Lessona will translate Descent into Italian [1871].

Sends his review from Nuova Antologia [17 (1871): 177–94].

In a letter to Archivio per l’Anthropologia he raises some doubts about sexual selection and proposes "Neogenesis" as a complement to natural selection in cases of rapid change.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7816

From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 172
Summary:

A geologist friend leaving for Nevada offers to investigate any questions CD may have for this region.

Nesting plumage of common chaffinch resembles adult winter plumage of female brambling.

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DCP-LETT-7817

From:
Laszlo Dapsy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 40
Summary:

As a professor of natural history, LD has spread CD’s doctrines in Hungary. Now wishes permission to translate Descent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7818

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 20
Summary:

Reports the passing of [Universities Tests] Bill and the consequent end to a bother.

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DCP-LETT-7819

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
14 June [1871]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

Thanks LHM for his introductions for CD’s sons and for his instructions about their route [for their U. S. visit].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7820

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 91–3; DAR 142: 58
Summary:

Discussion of mimicry and sexual selection among butterflies, occasioned by reading Descent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7821

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 229
Summary:

Replies to CD’s queries on movement of the eyes in meditation, and changes in the iris in rage and terror [see Expression, pp. 229, 304].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7823

From:
Ignatius Jackowski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 168: 41
Summary:

Has read of Descent in Polish newspapers. Writes against the Bible view, but believes in the Almighty.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7824

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
19 June 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks FCD for information about eyes [for Expression].

Must interrupt work on the subject to prepare new edition of Origin [6th].

Comments on gift of a new work by FCD [possibly "Die Projection der Gesichtserscheinung nach der Richtungslinien", Arch. Opthalmol. 17 (1871) Abt. 2: 1–68].

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