From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 134
Summary:
Thanks WED for a correction [to proofs of Origin, 6th ed.].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 5
Summary:
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
10 [Dec] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 16
Summary:
Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.
Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 64 (EH 88206047)
Summary:
Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932)
Summary:
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 445–8
Summary:
CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.
Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
2 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 35
Summary:
Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.
Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
Date:
[after 9 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111
Summary:
Requests that PB express his thanks to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris for the honour conferred upon him [see 8102].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 213
Summary:
Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
[15 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 2
Summary:
Congratulates Horace on passing his "Little Go".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 214–15
Summary:
H. Holland keeps strongly to the opinion that Kew be under the Treasury, and will recommend this to Lowe.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910)
Summary:
Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 6 (EH 88205979)
Summary:
Requests further information on subsidence of flagstones because of action of worms.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 13 (EH 88205911)
Summary:
Sends notes on left- and right-handedness from observations made on his eldest son as an infant.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
27 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 132
Summary:
His admiration for the papers of AG [see 8119].
Relates his recent discovery that earthworms have brought to surface no less than 161 tons of dry earth over an area of 10 acres, thus creating the conditions for significant denudation. Would welcome information about the persistence of ridges and furrows in old pasture lands ploughed centuries ago. Do they run down the slopes or transversely? Refers to [A. C.] Ramsay, [James] Croll, Elie de Beaumont, and [Henry] Johnson.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 185: 133
Summary:
Is obliged for valuable letter [see 8123] and encloses queries about the manner of gradual obliteration of ridges or furrows in old pasture lands in various parts of England.
Gives details of his experiment to test his observations of the downward flow of worm-casts.
Refers to [Lyon] Playfair, [A. C.] Ramsay, and AG’s edition of [J. B.] Jukes, [A student’s manual of geology, 3d ed., 1872].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
26 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 341
Summary:
Has sent photographs of insane woman to be engraved. Assumes JC-B has no objection.
Is making immense use of JC-B’s MS. The book ought to be described as "by Darwin & Browne".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:
[18 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 384
Summary:
Much perplexed by W. Crookes’s article. He can neither disbelieve nor believe. Article has removed some of his difficulty in that the supposed power is not an anomaly. Hopes men such as G. G. Stokes will be induced to witness Crookes’s experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 437
Summary:
Discusses new edition of Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
23 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
Acknowledges StGJM’s kind letter. [See 7451.]
Offers to alter the "dogmatic assertion" referred to on page 102 [of StGJM’s On the genesis of species] but in 5th ed. of Origin and in Variation CD finds only qualified expressions.
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