From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 239
Summary:
Will call tomorrow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 37
Summary:
Michele Lessona will translate Descent into Italian [1871].
Sends his review from Nuova Antologia [17 (1871): 177–94].
In a letter to Archivio per l’Anthropologia he raises some doubts about sexual selection and proposes "Neogenesis" as a complement to natural selection in cases of rapid change.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 172
Summary:
A geologist friend leaving for Nevada offers to investigate any questions CD may have for this region.
Nesting plumage of common chaffinch resembles adult winter plumage of female brambling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Laszlo Dapsy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 40
Summary:
As a professor of natural history, LD has spread CD’s doctrines in Hungary. Now wishes permission to translate Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 20
Summary:
Reports the passing of [Universities Tests] Bill and the consequent end to a bother.
Contributor:
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From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 229
Summary:
Replies to CD’s queries on movement of the eyes in meditation, and changes in the iris in rage and terror [see Expression, pp. 229, 304].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ignatius Jackowski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 168: 41
Summary:
Has read of Descent in Polish newspapers. Writes against the Bible view, but believes in the Almighty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Hugo Heinrich (Ernst) Pfitzer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 174: 41
Summary:
Sends publication [unspecified].
Notes adaptive mechanism in epiphytes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 69–70
Summary:
Observations on orchids. Ophrys apifera; confirms CD’s observation on pollinia. The nesting of ducks in trees is an example of change of instinct and habit.
Contributor:
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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 164
Summary:
Sends his review of St George Mivart’s book [Genesis of species] [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103] in which CW defends natural selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Ferdinand Stoliczka
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 230: 26
Summary:
CD elected an honorary member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 163
Summary:
Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Date:
26 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 174
Summary:
Gives examples of dogs’ expressions produced by ear movements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 141–2
Summary:
Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
27 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 317
Summary:
Discusses animal drawing showing expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 123
Summary:
Thanks for the photographs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 195–6
Summary:
Delighted to hear from Lyell of JDH’s return from successful ascent of the Atlas Mts.
Fears JDH found no Madeira or Canary types, but CD is pleased at his moraine discovery.
Thinks Lyell’s health is serious.
Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 81–2
Summary:
Resemblance of ocelli, in a moth and the argus pheasant.
Mimicry.
Pugnacity of stickleback.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996)
Summary:
Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].
Discusses mimetic insects.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Agassiz, Alexander2
- Ashburner, Lionel1
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.3
- Bradfield, Thomas1
- Browne, Hugh1
- Butler, A. G.2
- Dapsy, Laszlo1
- Darwin, C. R.35
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, G. H.3
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Dicey, E. M.3
- Donders, F. C.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Foster, Michael3
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jackowski, Ignatius1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Mantegazza, Paolo1
- Meldola, Raphael1
- Moggridge, J. T.1
- Morgan, L. H.1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Pfitzer, Ernst1
- Reeks, Henry3
- Riley, C. V.1
- Riviere, Briton2
- Rohlfs, Gerhard1
- Stoliczka, Ferdinand1
- Unidentified1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wright, Chauncey1
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