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DCP-LETT-8649

From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 188
Summary:

Acknowledges presentation copy [of Expression], which is not to be found in the market.

Interested in CD’s opinion of her article ["The consciousness of dogs", Q. Rev. 133 (1872): 419–51].

Hopes she may see CD at Queen Anne St [home of E. A. Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8649F

From:
Richard Lydekker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
Expression 2d ed. , p. 36, n.8
Summary:

Lydekker describes an inherited characteristic of drooping eyelids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8650

From:
Isaac Markens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 201: 26
Summary:

Asks for an autographed copy of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8651

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 135–7
Summary:

Is reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas of life [1872]: "One of the most eloquent books I ever read".

Owen’s communications are doing incalculable mischief to science in the eyes of Government officials. "This ignorant, careless, unobservant government."

The Nature editors, J. N. Lockyer and Bennett, blame each other for printing Owen’s letter.

Huxley looks wretched.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8653

From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 187
Summary:

More stories about dog behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8655

From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late] Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 99: 48–55
Summary:

No need to apologise for not quoting AH’s paper on acceleration and retardation.

Agassiz introduced AH to ammonites and entrusted collection to him. Has followed developmental history of each species and placed them within geological formations. Found evolutionary history of species recapitulated only to a degree in individual development. Stages frequently skipped. Explains why young of later animals are like adults that preceded them. Retardation entirely idea of Edward Drinker Cope. Sends paper to explain it. Acceleration can explain degraded forms. Often like youthful stage with which series began. Often resemble old age of earlier series. Regularity of these series incompatible with natural selection. How can selection account for degraded final stages or for predictability of development? Franz Hilgendorf’s Paludinae from Steinheim lake show same parallelism in development. May be possible to reconcile this with selection. But Trochiformis begins to show degradation in beds where it is most numerous and has largest individuals, i.e., where selection seems to be favouring it. Will work on Steinheim shells this winter.

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DCP-LETT-8685

From:
Jules Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 174
Summary:

Darwin and his followers have connected France and England like the projected tunnel and have demonstrated that the French and English are more free than Germany from scholasticism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1958

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 November 1872
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B115-116
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 249
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 279-280]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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