From:
H. Marval
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 77–8
Summary:
Observations on behaviour of spiders in Astrakhan and Turkestan.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 204–5
Summary:
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 49
Summary:
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
Contributor:
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From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 48
Summary:
Geese do not commonly sift water through their bills for food, as they feed on land. A few have well-developed lamellae for sifting. Will have his son check at Zoological Garden.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
20 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 39–42
Summary:
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 49
Summary:
Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 50
Summary:
Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 190
Summary:
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
Contributor:
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From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 164
Summary:
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 279)
Summary:
On Mivart’s Genesis of species, and THH’s intention to reply to it.
Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
CD is revising Origin and will answer Mivart on incipient organs. "Pendulum is swinging against us, but will swing back again".
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 50
Summary:
Lists [with prices] four birds that he has forwarded to CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 20
Summary:
Promises to answer questions about ducks next week when he has a specimen.
Recently met Capt. Arthur Mellersh.
Contributor:
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From:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 259
Summary:
Is enjoying Descent. Sends corroborating facts on heredity, concerning race of people from the Seychelles known for their tall stature, courage, and vigour.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 402
Summary:
The pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s review of Mivart, see 7940] has been distributed to friends and to the press.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
22 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:
Asks WHF to check over some enclosed MS pages [Origin, 6th ed.?]. CD quotes some of WHF’s remarks, but should WHF not wish to be mixed with CD’s theoretic notions, CD will omit the whole paragraph.
Many think CD’s notions are "rubbish, pleasantly flavoured", like the reviewer in the Quarterly Review, who CD cannot doubt is "Mr Mivart, with bigotry arrogance illiberality & many other nice qualities".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paolo Mantegazza
Date:
22 Sept 1871
Source of text:
Archivio della Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia 2 (1872): 112
Summary:
Explains that he cannot agree with Mantegazza’s views on sexual selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 234–5)
Summary:
Has been so unwell that he could do absolutely nothing on Origin [6th ed.]. A new chapter seven has cost much labour.
Sorry to hear R. I. Murchison is ill.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
23 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4)
Summary:
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
[24] Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for goose specimens.
Asks whether Egyptian goose throws water out of side of beak. Can it tear herbage like the domestic goose?
[Mistakenly dated 16 Sept by CD.]
Contributor:
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Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society1
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden2
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek1
- Cambridge University Library53
- Christie’s (dealers)1
- David Schulson Autographs (dealer)1
- F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection)1
- Harvard University Archives1
- Houghton Library, Harvard University1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College2
- John Innes Foundation Historical Collections, Norwich1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland2
- Massachusetts Historical Society1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney2
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond6
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- Sybil Rampen (private collection)1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- The British Library2
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