From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A71
Summary:
The buck is well; Dr Carter has returned, and things will go better.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
12 Aug 1872
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69
Summary:
Acknowledges a box of worm-casts from India and a bottle of worms in spirits. There is no memorandum.
His book on expression is finished and includes valuable information from JS.
Contributor:
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 177–8
Summary:
Hostility of birds toward others with same colour;
nuptial plumage.
Spiza cyanea and Spiza ciris.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel F Tyler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 181–2
Summary:
Parallel quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Descent about absorption of heat by different colours; applies to winter and summer plumage of birds.
Reasoning power in dogs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
17 Aug 1872
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:
Cost of plates [for Expression] is greater than expected: £75 per 1000 copies.
Contributor:
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 Aug 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 59
Summary:
VOK is marking the passages [in Wundt, Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] that may interest CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 172: 58
Summary:
Offers observations on expression in Australian dogs, since he knows CD plans to publish on the subject.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[after 20 Aug 1872?]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885 , p. 192
Summary:
Can believe animals communicate together, but does not know how.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Günzbourg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 239
Summary:
Sends a paper in which he has applied CD’s theory of natural selection to the explanation of the mortality rate of new-born infants ["Die Kindersterblickeit", J. Kinderkrankheiten (1872)].
Contributor:
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From:
Johan (Ykema) IJkema
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 1
Summary:
Wishes to have Dutch publication rights for a translation of Expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 209
Summary:
Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.
Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.
Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 172: 59
Summary:
Doubts reported cases of homing instinct in dogs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Vivian
Date:
23 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR474)
Summary:
Thanks for valuable information [about worms?]. "The more I investigate the extreme amount of work effected, the more perplexed as yet I become."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
24 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 700 & 700a)
Summary:
Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to the library.
If AD is interested, he will send a copy of Expression when it comes out.
Invites AD to visit Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
24 Aug 1872
Source of text:
CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9)
Summary:
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
Contributor:
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 210
Summary:
Will call on CD next year, when he will have worked out the embryology of Amphioxus; he believes it is not primitive but a degenerate form of fish. He believes the true ancestors of vertebrates are annelids.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederic William Harmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 102
Summary:
Has entered a newspaper controversy with W. P. Lyon [Homo versus Darwin (1872)] who ascribes to CD the saying "natural selection is a kind of god that never slumbers nor sleeps". FWH does not believe CD made this statement.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Harmer
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum (IPSMG: R.1924-134)
Summary:
Explains that William Penman Lyon has misquoted CD in Lyon [1871].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 227–8
Summary:
Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.
Contributor:
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Addressee
- Airy, Hubert1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cooke, R. F.8
- Darwin, C. R.40
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Galton, Francis3
- Gulick, J. T.1
- Harmer, F. W.1
- Heer, Oswald1
- Hooker, J. D.3
- John Murray8
- Kovalevsky, V. O.2
- Murray, John (b)1
- Nature1
- Nicols, Arthur1
- Scott, John1
- Unidentified1
- Vivian, Edward1
- Wallace, A. R.2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel2
- Williams & Norgate1
- Wright, Chauncey1
- FEWER
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Cooke, R. F.17
- John Murray17
- Kovalevsky, V. O.7
- Galton, Francis4
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Wallace, A. R.4
- Wallace, Alfred Russel4
- Dohrn, Anton3
- Harmer, F. W.3
- Nicols, Arthur3
- D. Appleton & Co2
- Darwin, Francis2
- Gulick, J. T.2
- Wright, Chauncey2
- Airy, Hubert1
- Baxter, W. W.1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Günzbourg, Charles1
- Harte, Richard1
- Heer, Oswald1
- IJkema, Johan1
- Layton, Charles1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Nature1
- Packard, A. S., Jr1
- Scott, John1
- Tyler, D. F.1
- Unidentified1
- Vivian, Edward1
- Weir, J. J.1
- Williams & Norgate1