From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 182
Summary:
Would be pleased if CD called.
Contributor:
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From:
Carel Hendrik Thiebout
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 39
Summary:
As a follower of CD, Spencer, and Kant, wishes to announce his work on the origin of "foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)].
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 11
Summary:
Gives CD some information on wills.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 76–7
Summary:
J. S. Mill’s account of the moral sense in Utilitarianism [1863] appears muddled. [See Descent 1: 71 n.]
Contributor:
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From:
Frederic Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 58
Summary:
Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 30
Summary:
Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 195.1: 54
Summary:
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Contributor:
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From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 72
Summary:
Sends two books detailing a new medical method that will produce "a state of health & vigour on every occasion & in every instance" and is applicable to "the entire circle of animated nature" [William Hibbert, Important discovery. Hibbert’s new theory and practice of medicine (1870) and The new theory and practice of medicine (1870)]. The volumes apply to animals and man. Subsequent books will detail the method for insects and plants.
[Letter erroneously addressed to E. A. Darwin, and forwarded by EAD to CD.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Leland Balch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 20
Summary:
CD’s photographs have been sent to [J. W. A.] McDonald, the sculptor, who will make a marble bust for the Liberal Club of New York and a bronze or plaster one for sale; CD will receive a copy. CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Club, and
CB asks whether he could give them a few words of advice on a practical method of biological study for beginners.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:
Sends CD a ptarmigan.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 196
Summary:
Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].
Contributor:
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From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31
Summary:
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
Contributor:
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From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871]
Source of text:
DAR 189: 139
Summary:
Observations on expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 55
Summary:
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 50
Summary:
Depth of furrows in old field.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 170–1
Summary:
On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 111: A77–8
Summary:
Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
Contributor:
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From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 230
Summary:
More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A23–4
Summary:
Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 51
Summary:
Appearance and depth of furrows in old field.
Contributor:
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