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DCP-LETT-5635

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 58
Summary:

Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].

Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5636

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 158
Summary:

AG has promised to review CD’s new book [Variation] for the Nation [forwards a letter from E. L. Godkin of the Nation to this effect] and wonders if he might have sheets a little in advance.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5637

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B43–4
Summary:

Informs CD of his reply to Argyll and the North British Review criticisms [in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" and Angraecum sesquipedale.

Birth of Herbert Spencer Wallace.

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DCP-LETT-5641

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 61
Summary:

Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5643

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 62
Summary:

Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5646

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 268
Summary:

Has received more Variation sheets; some are missing. In a few days the first six chapters of the French translation will be printed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5650

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 63
Summary:

Anxious to read the second volume [of Variation].

Appreciates "the way in which you [CD] teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5651

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 180–1
Summary:

Must cut short visit to Down because of domestic problems.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5652

From:
William Houghton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 271
Summary:

Studying freshwater Planariae. Did CD find they had nervous systems?

News of T. C. Eyton and [William?] Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5655

From:
Joseph Plimsoll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 51
Summary:

Seeks to save CD’s soul.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5656

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B46–7
Summary:

Response to CD’s comments on "Creation by law" [see 5637].

The limits of variation discussed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5657

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 291
Summary:

Thanks for German version of Origin [1867].

Dipterous insects are adapted to eating pollen rather than only to sucking nectar. He describes such adaptations in two dipteran species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5658

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 64
Summary:

Asks CD for exact title of Variation for German advertisement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5661

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 352
Summary:

Sends Dallas’ specimen of indexing [for Variation].

Asks CD’s opinion of likelihood of a hybrid of ass and bull, reported in a MS of a journey to Asia Minor he is reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5664

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 36, 30
Summary:

Sends a letter he wrote in 1862 [see 3482].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5668

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 71
Summary:

Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5670

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 2
Summary:

WSD is pleased that CD approves his index draft [for Variation]; notes his objection to long list of references under "Dogs" and will try to find a principle for shortening it. He has not indexed all authors’ names; is this practice satisfactory?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5672

From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 120
Summary:

Has sent CD’s queries on expression to some friends; encloses one set of replies [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5673

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 37
Summary:

Remarks on Darwinism’s reception. The radical press shies away, out of ignorance, because CD may be made out to be a Tory. He has met a Darwinian Marchioness.

The mystery of sex is the origin of all religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5674

From:
Francis Elliott Kitchener
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 39
Summary:

Sends Swiss Aquilegia flowers in which insects have eaten away the spurs.

Suggests fetid smell of Stapelia attracts carrion flies.

Contributor:
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