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DCP-LETT-8211F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[16 Feb – 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8211G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
20 Feb 1872
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for a quarto work on the mining industry. CD’s sons much obliged for kindness in California.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (11 December 2007)
Summary:

Asks to have copy of Origin [6th ed.] sent to the Pall Mall Gazette for review with Mivart’s Genesis [of species (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8212F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 or 23] Feb 1872 or [1, 8 or 15] Mar 1872
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Pybus (Professor Frederick) Archive GB186 FP/2/7/35)
Summary:

Suggests a visit to Kew to see the hot houses the following Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 103
Summary:

David Forbes thinks WED’s chalk samples have been penetrated by surface mud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8223

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
24 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); DAR 53.1: C50
Summary:

Asks for the negative and permission to publish photo of smiling girl. [Expression, p. 202, plate III, fig. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8226

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anatole Roujou
Date:
28 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Has read correspondent’s work. Glad he is not shocked at belief that man is descendant of lower form. An unusual attitude for a Frenchman.

Fears they differ greatly on origins of moral sense.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
29 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Asks AWB for a reference to a paper;

thanks him for his generous review of the last edition [6th] of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 148: 342
Summary:

Glad AW’s eyesight is better.

Has received AW’s essay [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Glad he is turning attention to sexual selection. Hardly any naturalists agree with CD on subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[9 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 274–5)
Summary:

CD is vexed to hear that some of his friends and some booksellers complain of the type of the new [6th] edition of Origin. CD, whose eyesight is not good, had no trouble reading proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8235

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/43)
Summary:

Thanks for facts about ducks.

Thinks TCE will be converted to principle of evolution if he continues testing facts for and against it. Natural selection is another question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8241F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 39418)
Summary:

Offers to send German editions of his works when he return home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D. Appleton & Co
Date:
16 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.412)
Summary:

Acknowledges payment from sale of his books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8248

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
[20 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn (SANT/BEQ/4/4/55A)
Summary:

Has received GCW’s negative from the Heliotype Co. Thanks him for the beautiful work of art which, however, will make others on the same plate look ugly. [See Expression, pl. III, fig. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406)
Summary:

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8255

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
28 Mar 1872
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Feels it would be worth while but difficult to investigate mimicked and mimicking forms for structural similarities that would indicate a closer alliance in the past.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8257

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
29 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on action of eyes in a person lost in meditation. Asks about Charles Bell’s explanation [in Anatomy of expression (1806, 1844)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
29 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.

Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
1 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 147: 318
Summary:

Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8266F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
1 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:

Thanks for "Literatur & Tables zur Descendenz Theorie" [check title!?] taken from his Die Darwin’sche Theorie [1871], which CD had read with gratification some time before.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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