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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 57
Summary:

Will see CD tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
[20 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn (SANT/BEQ/4/4/55A)
Summary:

Has received GCW’s negative from the Heliotype Co. Thanks him for the beautiful work of art which, however, will make others on the same plate look ugly. [See Expression, pl. III, fig. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 120
Summary:

Describes habits of worms.

Discusses Leersia experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406)
Summary:

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 89: 89–90b
Summary:

A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.

Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.

Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.

Contributor:
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From:
John Royle Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 54
Summary:

CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
28 Mar 1872
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Feels it would be worth while but difficult to investigate mimicked and mimicking forms for structural similarities that would indicate a closer alliance in the past.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A46–9
Summary:

Endorses revised statement about Butler’s odd hereditary habit;

describes a séance at William Crookes’s.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
29 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on action of eyes in a person lost in meditation. Asks about Charles Bell’s explanation [in Anatomy of expression (1806, 1844)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
29 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.

Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 173
Summary:

Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.

Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 75
Summary:

Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 90
Summary:

Would like to do Russian translation of Expression.

May come to England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A52
Summary:

Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.

Contributor:
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From:
James Murie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 322
Summary:

Requests letter recommending him for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 March 1872
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B109-110
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 236
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 271]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 223
Summary:

Has failed to discover the signs of earthworm activity that CD described.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project