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From:
John Michels
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 175
Summary:

Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1870–81]
Source of text:
DAR 105: 111
Summary:

Share dealings.

Contributor:
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From:
Benjamin Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077)
Summary:

Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.

Writes of a recent book.

Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 June 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 181
Summary:

Sets a time for CD to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Jan 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 18
Summary:

Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 141
Summary:

Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).

Contributor:
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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 122
Summary:

Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.

Contributor:
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From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 142
Summary:

Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 42–5
Summary:

Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36)
Summary:

Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 12
Summary:

Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

Contributor:
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From:
Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 280
Summary:

Requests CD write in support of Government pension for her husband, George Cupples.

Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 141
Summary:

Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B69–70
Summary:

Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.

Comments on George’s escape.

Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B71–2
Summary:

Confirms number of shares.

Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Ottley Groom Napier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 228
Summary:

COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].

Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 or 9] Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 36
Summary:

Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Boner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 239
Summary:

Is glad CD liked Chamois hunting [in Bavaria (1853, 1860)].

Regrets CD’s poor health.

Sends his book, Transylvania [1865].

Contributor:
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From:
Adolf Reuter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 127
Summary:

Sends monstrous oranges,

red grape leaves,

and a bean with blue fruits (a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Dolichos species).

Contributor:
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 205
Summary:

Thanks CD for his support and for his cautionary advice.

Will send his work on embryology of arthropods as soon as it is finished [Bau und Entwicklung der Arthropoden (1870)].

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