From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 37
Summary:
Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.
Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 187
Summary:
Apologises for saying more than was necessary in his previous letter. Although he feels gratitude and esteem for CD, he execrates those who use natural selection to oppose man’s higher interests and impede his advance. Has seen Huxley’s Man’s place in nature for sale among a crowd of obscenities at most Italian railway stations.
Contributor:
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From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 59
Summary:
Aggressive behaviour of dogs and horses.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A15–16
Summary:
Rabbits still running true; hopes to increase alien blood to 30%.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 292
Summary:
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
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From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 60
Summary:
Expression in horses.
Crying in babies.
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From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 174: 68
Summary:
Sends his "Charles Darwin, eine biographische Skizze" [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
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From:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 180: 8
Summary:
About the insertion of a column on marriage of cousins in the census form.
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A17–18
Summary:
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
Contributor:
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From:
Patrick Nicol
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 55
Summary:
Answers to CD’s queries on expression; observations on the facial expressions of the insane.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 62
Summary:
On death of his wife. Botany a solace.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 79
Summary:
Asks CD to review Wallace’s recent book of essays [Natural selection (1870)], particularly the new essay, which questions the applicability of natural selection to man.
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From:
Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 120
Summary:
Announces CD’s election as Honorary Member of the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 147
Summary:
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 88
Summary:
Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.
HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 47–50
Summary:
Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.
J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]
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From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 43
Summary:
Behaviour of ants.
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 63
Summary:
Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.
Observations on insects visiting barberries.
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From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 225
Summary:
Has finished the article [on the action of the eyelids in Ned. Arch. Geneeskd. & Natuurkd. 5 (1870), also see 7238]; summarises: the occlusion of the eyelids protects the vessels, and the eye itself, against the danger of pressure caused by excessive expiratory action. The weakness of the conclusion is that the extent of the danger caused by the pressure to the normal state of the eye is not precisely known.
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From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 226
Summary:
A detailed description of the physiological and anatomical processes related to the prolonged involuntary contraction of the orbicular muscles and the secretion of tears (as in retching, violent coughing, or laughing). [See Expression, p. 160.].
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