From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 [Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B78–9
Summary:
Sees mistake he made on certificates; will make list for future use.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 47
Summary:
Prefers W. C. Wells’s explanation of the formation of the Nehro type to CD’s sexual selection.
Outlines his view of the origin of man by natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A33–4
Summary:
Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B80
Summary:
Location of stock certificates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
H Ramu
Date:
13 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 147: 290
Summary:
Obliged for letter about appendages on faces of goats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Giuseppe Carboni
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 45
Summary:
Requests CD’s autograph.
Sends photograph of an emblem, which he uses as his personal symbol: "Moleshott, Büchner, Darwin: Scienza e Natura, Forza e Materia".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 83–84
Summary:
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B75
Summary:
Georgina [Tollet?] is eager to see a copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 48
Summary:
Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H. Marval
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 77–8
Summary:
Observations on behaviour of spiders in Astrakhan and Turkestan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 204–5
Summary:
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 49
Summary:
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 48
Summary:
Geese do not commonly sift water through their bills for food, as they feed on land. A few have well-developed lamellae for sifting. Will have his son check at Zoological Garden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 39–42
Summary:
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 49
Summary:
Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 50
Summary:
Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 190
Summary:
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 164
Summary:
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 50
Summary:
Lists [with prices] four birds that he has forwarded to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 20
Summary:
Promises to answer questions about ducks next week when he has a specimen.
Recently met Capt. Arthur Mellersh.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project