From:
William Rathbone Greg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 225
Summary:
Thanks CD for thinking of his speculation.
Has made a note of the paper mentioned by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hodder Michael Westropp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 38–9
Summary:
Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].
Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louisa Albano
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 32
Summary:
Replies to CD’s letter;
inquires about CD’s intended terms for Italian translator of Descent; hopes to offer best terms herself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 111–12c
Summary:
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 98–9
Summary:
On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 194
Summary:
Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas William Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 22–3
Summary:
John Murray has commissioned him to redraw two birds. Hopes to re-do all of the birds taken from Brehm’s Thierleben.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 197
Summary:
WBT’s beard exceptional in that it is darker than his hair [see Descent 2: 319].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 28–29
Summary:
Upset to learn he has misrepresented CD’s doctrine on Pangenesis [in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–410]. Hopes that CD’s letter to Nature [3 (1871): 502–3; Collected papers 2: 165–7] will clarify the doctrine and attract attention to it.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 396
Summary:
Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.
Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.
The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ralph Ingham Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 113–14
Summary:
About a dog that acquired habits from a cat and her kittens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 397
Summary:
Concerned with photographic processes for illustrations [for Expression].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 104
Summary:
Information on the publishing history of a book [J. C. Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente, 4 vols. (1775–8)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: C47, C48, 176: 115
Summary:
Since it is difficult to catch the expressions CD wants, OGR is posing himself.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–4 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 22
Summary:
Mentions some photos relating to expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 102
Summary:
Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)]. The effect of the growth of forest land on their increase; meteorological and climatic effects.
Also observations made on increase in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of weasels that fed on mice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project