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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 52
Summary:

Quickening of heart-beat in fear. A. H. Garrod does not think that this means that the heart is working harder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 53
Summary:

A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A61–3
Summary:

Thanks CD for criticisms of his paper; explains why there is greater diversity among succeeding generations than in the first.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 181
Summary:

Will need to see proofs of his drawings.

Flattered to be mentioned in introduction to Expression [p. 26].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 15a
Summary:

On leaf arrangement. [Badly damaged and almost illegible.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A64–5
Summary:

Will do what he can for Lord Sackville Cecil, but he, himself, cannot get to séances when he likes. Introduction of a stranger always disturbs séances. Person most likely to help would be Lord Lindsey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 409
Summary:

Messrs Clowes have received MS of Expression. JM submits specimen pages for CD’s approval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C9
Summary:

Sends CD a copy of the memorial supporting Hooker’s case against A. S. Ayrton’s interference in the administration of Kew Gardens.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 178: 199
Summary:

AT is trying to publish his paper with important evidence on "the pluvial period".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Leslie Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–19 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 319
Summary:

Proposes calling on CD with Prof. Wrightson of Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: D13–14
Summary:

O. N. Rood sends two copies of an amusing picture by T. F. Beard, "The young Darwinian" to AG, who forwards one to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Menyhért Lónyay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 154
Summary:

CD has been elected a Foreign Member of the Magyar Tudományos Akademia [Hungarian Academy of Sciences].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 230
Summary:

HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 114–15
Summary:

Expects the memorial to make Gladstone frantic. Government regrets granting Lord Derby the correspondence and Lubbock has been advised to postpone calling for it in Lower House. This looks fishy. Is exhausted by the affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Benjamin Adolphus Renshaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 121
Summary:

Reports a monkey-like child in Teneriffe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 55
Summary:

In England to write a monograph on Anthracotherium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Tiemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 178: 127
Summary:

A goat in Breslau recently gave birth to three kids, two normal but one almost entirely lacking in hair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 72
Summary:

Asks CD for seeds of some plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 252
Summary:

Has been appointed Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.

Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 298
Summary:

Privately advises CD against having anything to do with W. P. Snow, whose personality and past conduct on a mission vessel were very bad.

Reports on the successes of the missionaries on the Beagle Channel [Tierra del Fuego].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project