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DCP-LETT-7345

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 June 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 61
Summary:

Worm-casts on a ridged hill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8364

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 52
Summary:

Quickening of heart-beat in fear. A. H. Garrod does not think that this means that the heart is working harder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8365

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 53
Summary:

A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8368

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A61–3
Summary:

Thanks CD for criticisms of his paper; explains why there is greater diversity among succeeding generations than in the first.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8369

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 165
Summary:

Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8371

From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 181
Summary:

Will need to see proofs of his drawings.

Flattered to be mentioned in introduction to Expression [p. 26].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8372

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 15a
Summary:

On leaf arrangement. [Badly damaged and almost illegible.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8373

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A64–5
Summary:

Will do what he can for Lord Sackville Cecil, but he, himself, cannot get to séances when he likes. Introduction of a stranger always disturbs séances. Person most likely to help would be Lord Lindsey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8374

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 409
Summary:

Messrs Clowes have received MS of Expression. JM submits specimen pages for CD’s approval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8375

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C9
Summary:

Sends CD a copy of the memorial supporting Hooker’s case against A. S. Ayrton’s interference in the administration of Kew Gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8376

From:
Alfred Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 178: 199
Summary:

AT is trying to publish his paper with important evidence on "the pluvial period".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8378

From:
Charles Leslie Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–19 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 319
Summary:

Proposes calling on CD with Prof. Wrightson of Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8379

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 116–17
Summary:

Asks WED to direct bearer of letter to CD, as he has an address [memorial from men of science to W. E. Gladstone] for him to sign.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8381

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: D13–14
Summary:

O. N. Rood sends two copies of an amusing picture by T. F. Beard, "The young Darwinian" to AG, who forwards one to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8382

From:
Menyhért Lónyay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 154
Summary:

CD has been elected a Foreign Member of the Magyar Tudományos Akademia [Hungarian Academy of Sciences].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8383

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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DCP-LETT-8384

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 230
Summary:

HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8385

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

DCP-LETT-8386

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 114–15
Summary:

Expects the memorial to make Gladstone frantic. Government regrets granting Lord Derby the correspondence and Lubbock has been advised to postpone calling for it in Lower House. This looks fishy. Is exhausted by the affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8387

From:
Benjamin Adolphus Renshaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 121
Summary:

Reports a monkey-like child in Teneriffe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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