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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.418); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6267-8)
Summary:

Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
3 June [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CW’s article responding to Mivart [see 8351] on the fixity of species is very clear.

On evolution of language, CD doubts W. D. Whitney’s claim that changes are effected by the will of man. Asks CW when a thing may properly be said to be so effected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Charlotte Lloyd
Date:
5 June [1872]
Source of text:
Sherman Bull (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks her for drawing of dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
Date:
6 June [1872]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks WALM for having sent interesting publications, especially the one on relation of structure of man to lower animals,

and just a few days since, on protuberances on bird skulls. WALM’s facts on the latter subject have an important bearing on the acquisition of sexual characters. CD is pleased that the influence of sexual selection is admitted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
9 June [1872?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.408)
Summary:

Agrees to read paper; warns he lacks mathematical knowledge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June [1872-4]
Source of text:
Brandes Autographs (dealers) (January 2018)
Summary:

Asks recipient to send parcels to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and not to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
10 June [1872]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80)
Summary:

Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]

and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Menyhért Lónyay
Date:
[after 11 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 154r
Summary:

Thanks for his election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS JT/1/TYP/8/2654)
Summary:

If the Memorial concerning Joseph Dalton Hooker’s dispute with Acton Smee Ayrton was sent to Down, there will be a delay in its return. He has discussed the matter with Mary Catherine Stanley (Lady Derby).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 220–1
Summary:

Has signed the memorial by men of science with real pleasure. Fears it may be too severe. He told Lady Derby about JDH’s troubles. She said she would tell Lord Derby what he had said.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
17 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 415
Summary:

Would be impractical to have FCD check references to physiology in proofs [of Expression]. William Bowman has checked chapter on weeping.

Invites FCD to visit Down when he comes to England in July.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 June [1872]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Rejoices at AG’s appointment [as Assistant Keeper at the British Museum].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project