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DCP-LETT-8165

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Dawson
Date:
19 Jan 1872
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks recipient for memoir on fossil plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
20 Jan 1872
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

Thanks LHM for his work on consanguinity. [See 7299].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.

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DCP-LETT-8172

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

Discusses the problems of mimicry as related to natural selection; the general variability of colour as a character; and the conditions necessary for natural selection to fix firmly a character.

Encloses a Fritz Müller letter speculating that organisms respond to certain colours because of the prevalence of those colours in their environment.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1)
Summary:

His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.

Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 34)
Summary:

Discusses earthworm activity observed in old ploughed fields.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Jan 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 218–19
Summary:

Heartily glad about Willy.

Has never had Zizania.

Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.

What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8183

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 138
Summary:

Gives information on recent editions of Lyell’s works.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8184

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

Invites RM to keep some specimens as long as he wishes.

Recalls vaguely the mention of a butterfly species in which the male alone is mimetic.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
27 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 78–79)
Summary:

CD sends some sheets [of 6th ed. of Origin]. Informs JVC that he is having it stereotyped, so he can never again make any serious alterations. "The little strength left to me shall be employed on new works."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
27 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 283
Summary:

Has corrected last page of index of Origin [6th ed.]. Sends instructions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8188

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
30 Jan 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 272–3)
Summary:

Requests that JM make stereotype plates of 6th edition of Origin available to D. Appleton. This will be last edition and CD is "extremely anxious" to spread his views.

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DCP-LETT-9236F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Besant
Date:
10 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
eBay UK: worthpoint.com/worthopedia/emma-darwin-original-letter-1871-286171432, accessed 30 January 2020
Summary:

Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.

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