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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
[before 5 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 433; DAR 194: 1; Krause ed. 1885–6, 2: 84–8
Summary:

Comments on HM’s paper ["Anwendung der Darwin’schen Lehre auf Bienen", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. preuss. Rheinland 29 (1872): 1–96];

sexual selection in bees.

Encloses account on habits of Bombus.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 132
Summary:

Asks for investment advice.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[after 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 137–8
Summary:

Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 94: 216–17
Summary:

Heartily glad about the news of the Ayrton affair development.

Huxley looks very unwell from too much miscellaneous work; CD wishes he could be made a Director General for transference of British Museum and for other scientific work, as JDH suggests.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
5 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 331)
Summary:

Asks her to probe worm-holes on grassy slopes with a knitting needle to ascertain whether they come out at right angles to the slope or to the horizon.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 137
Summary:

Thanks WED for checking through the proofs of a new [6th] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
15 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 289
Summary:

Obliged for QdeB’s efforts [to have CD elected member of Académie Française].

With regard to stress that QdeB lays on man’s walking on two legs, no one attributes much significance to difference in mode of locomotion between seals and terrestrial Carnivora or kangaroos and other marsupials.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 218–19
Summary:

Heartily glad about Willy.

Has never had Zizania.

Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.

What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 138
Summary:

Gives information on recent editions of Lyell’s works.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
27 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 283
Summary:

Has corrected last page of index of Origin [6th ed.]. Sends instructions.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 103
Summary:

David Forbes thinks WED’s chalk samples have been penetrated by surface mud.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 47
Summary:

Wants AR to make any observations she can on the occurrence of little ledges on the side of steep, turf-covered slopes. Feels they may result from the washing down of worm-castings.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 148: 342
Summary:

Glad AW’s eyesight is better.

Has received AW’s essay [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Glad he is turning attention to sexual selection. Hardly any naturalists agree with CD on subject.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
1 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 147: 318
Summary:

Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murie
Date:
2 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Murie Papers 281)
Summary:

Testimonial letter. JM would be well fitted for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology of the Royal Veterinary College.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
4 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 147: 319
Summary:

Thanks for kindness. BR must not think of trying until he feels inclination and strength for task.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
5 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 148: 343
Summary:

Comments on AW’s work [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Discusses formation of local races.

Conchologist should investigate whether species of same genus vary during successive geological periods.

Comments on Franz Hilgendorf ["Über Planorbis multiformis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504].

Believes sexual selection will be judged a powerful agency.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 413
Summary:

Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".

Has received German pamphlet.

Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].

Discusses his work on expression.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Crawley
Date:
19 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 301
Summary:

Thanks CC’s father for relic. Remembers almost every boy above him but few below him in the school.

CC’s translation seems capital.

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