From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 61
Summary:
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Fulvio Martinelli
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 59
Summary:
[MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 251
Summary:
Believes many of the species and even genera of the fish family Labyrinthici are products of domestication.
Events at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 178
Summary:
Will try again to draw the expression of a pleased dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H Montague
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 231
Summary:
Sends MS of a book on progressive development on this planet and in the universe. Asks CD to underwrite its publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 168
Summary:
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A57–8
Summary:
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 179
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s books [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 170
Summary:
AM [wife of Jules Michelet] offers information on crosses in cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A59–60
Summary:
Delighted CD’s groom will take the rabbits;
has just done proof of a paper to the Royal Society on "blood-relationship", defining kinship between parents and offspring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 180
Summary:
Sends a drawing of dog’s expression for CD to approve and return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: A8–10
Summary:
Thanks CD for his note and cheque for young May.
Will send copy of second edition of Erewhon, in which he has set himself straight about "having intended no villainy by the machines". [See 8318.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 15
Summary:
A review and criticism of Chauncey Wright’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415]. Does not believe that the "distributive" and "cyclical" properties, which CW claims characterise the existing spiral orders of leaf arrangement, can be shown to be advantageous to plants. CW’s speculations on the origins of the spiral arrangement of leaves are purely hypothetical.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 180
Summary:
Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 165
Summary:
Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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