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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[March 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 97
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114
Summary:
On colours and breeding of rabbits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 58
Summary:
P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[after 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 137–8
Summary:
Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 103
Summary:
David Forbes thinks WED’s chalk samples have been penetrated by surface mud.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 104
Summary:
Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[9 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 274–5)
Summary:
CD is vexed to hear that some of his friends and some booksellers complain of the type of the new [6th] edition of Origin. CD, whose eyesight is not good, had no trouble reading proofs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 163: 33
Summary:
AE, philosophy professor, is disposed to accept natural selection, but argues that it lacks direction. Suggests that direction would be given if one assumed the appearance of multiple advantageous traits in a single individual. Cites Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Claude Bernard, and Carl Vogt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 57
Summary:
Thanks CD for Origin, 6th ed.
Has declined chair at Strasbourg.
Describes research on calcareous sponges.
Criticises Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 149
Summary:
Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B109–110
Summary:
Response to 6th ed. of Origin. CD’s answer to Mivart on initial stages of modifications is complete; the "eye and ear objection" is not handled so satisfactorily.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/43)
Summary:
Thanks for facts about ducks.
Thinks TCE will be converted to principle of evolution if he continues testing facts for and against it. Natural selection is another question.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1872
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 119
Summary:
Thanks for new [6th] edition of Origin.
Is working on Echini.
The more material he gets the less easy it is to diagnose a genus or species. Has little doubt that "classification is nothing but the most arbitrary convenient tool, depending upon the material at our command at a special time".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 179
Summary:
A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 31
Summary:
Down parish and family matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 408
Summary:
JM arranges to pay CD for the latest issue of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 119
Summary:
Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.
CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 55
Summary:
Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 39418)
Summary:
Offers to send German editions of his works when he return home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 56
Summary:
Plans for visit to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Agardh, Jacob1
- Barkly, Henry1
- Bentham, George1
- Carneri, Bartholomäus von1
- D. Appleton & Co1
- Darwin, C. R.26
- Darwin, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Donders, F. C.1
- Duffy, Charles1
- Eyton, T. C.1
- Galton, Francis1
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone1
- Hooker, Joseph2
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lubbock, John1
- Lyell, Charles2
- MacOwan, Peter1
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Plaar, Gustav1
- Unidentified1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wallich, G. C.1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- [Hooker, Joseph]1
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