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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 27
Summary:

Wants to sell some shares held in trust by EAD and Josiah Wedgwood [III].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 Sept [1871-81]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (August 2005)
Summary:

Thanks for a book. "I am so much overworked at present that I cannot read it now, & I am a very poor German scholar".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Virginia Lavinia Isitt
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 101
Summary:

Feels it unlikely that CD could employ a secretary but he is prepared to experiment if Miss I. would care to come to Down for a period.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
2 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 88
Summary:

Is preparing a new edition of Origin [6th ed. (1872)] and asks GB for information on the gradations between the vibracula and avicularia of the Polyzoa and on what he bases his opinion concerning the homology of the avicularium with the zooid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
4 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

An affectionate letter to HL on her honeymoon. Urges her to keep her mother as an example.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Alfred Hanbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 94
Summary:

Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
6 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

CD’s views [on religion] are far from clear. He cannot make up his mind how far an inward conviction that there must be some Creator or First Cause is really trustworthy evidence. Does not feel he has thought deeply enough to express himself publicly on religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 207
Summary:

Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.

Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
8 Sept 1871
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 698)
Summary:

Agrees to have his name on the list of naturalists to whom annual report [on zoological station] should be sent.

His health has been very bad for last six weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Kratz
Date:
8 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (2005)
Summary:

Thanks for sending the photographs of hairy people at the Burmese court.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Wallis Nash
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 172: 3
Summary:

In hunting dogs behavioural and physical traits are often inherited together and from either male or female parent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H Ramu
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 20
Summary:

Informs CD that there are goats at Nancy with maxillary appendages similar to those of the ancient Irish pig [see Variation 1: 75].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525)
Summary:

CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.

Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 383
Summary:

Replies to CD’s queries about the homologies of the avicularian and vibracular organs of Polyzoa and gives examples of gradations between the two.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B76–7
Summary:

Writes to check on stock certificates received.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
10 Sept [1871 or 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 9
Summary:

Discusses exchange of books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
10 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

CD is interested in the gradation of character in the lamellae of the beaks of ducks. He finds that they are less developed or prominent in the common duck and goose than in true ducks. Is OS able to provide him with any information on this subject?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
12 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 148: 384
Summary:

CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] nearly ready. Friends have been much struck by it but say several passages rather obscure.

Glad CW coming to England. Will be delighted to see him at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wallis Nash
Date:
12 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for facts relating to inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 [Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B78–9
Summary:

Sees mistake he made on certificates; will make list for future use.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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