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DCP-LETT-7148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
25 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections; DAR 270.1: 24
Summary:

Thanks WHF for his very good lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7149

From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 186
Summary:

Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7150

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 76: B36
Summary:

His observations on mimicry in butterflies

and self-sterility in plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7152

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 6
Summary:

He and Milne-Edwards are nominating CD for the Académie Française.

Sending book [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)].

Despite their differences of opinion, expresses his respect and admiration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Summary:

Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.

Congratulations on his removal from London,

and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7156

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 11–12
Summary:

Better news about the rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7157

From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 173: 39
Summary:

JO found fossil shells in the Amazon Valley, which discredits Agassiz’s claim of a glacial origin.

Would like Huxley’s opinion of the fossil horse’s tooth from Quito.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7159

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B74
Summary:

"Your financial operations excite my envy beyond words." Reports on stock just received.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7160

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
2 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 331
Summary:

Copy of Duchenne [see 7089] has not arrived; CD is concerned that it may be lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7161

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A13–14
Summary:

The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 207–208)
Summary:

Finds Academy contains valuable matter for his work.

Descent progresses slowly – will not be ready for press for several months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7163

From:
Charles Warren Stoddard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 258
Summary:

Writes of some observations on the Sandwich Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7164

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 245
Summary:

Arranges to come to Down with R. A. v. Kölliker.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7165

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 74
Summary:

Would like to visit CD at Down.

[Fourth] German edition of Origin will be out in a few weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7166

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 75
Summary:

Regrets he cannot come to Down on day suggested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7166A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Date:
18 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
John Gittleman (private collection)
Summary:

Has sent off specimens of Virgularia but fears they are in bad state. He could not find his dried specimens. Encloses notes that can be relied upon but may be of little use.

Also encloses a memorandum for Prof. K. G. Semper.

CD thinks Alcide d’Orbigny may have given name of Virgularia patagonica.

CD enjoyed RAvK’s recent visit [see 7164].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7168

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 209
Summary:

Asks CD to look at the "special phylogonies" on pp. 138 and 152 of his book [Forms of animal life (1870)]. His comments are based on reading Haeckel, who is highly speculative and quite wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7168A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:

Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7169

From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 35
Summary:

Italian translation [of Variation] is delayed, but printing should begin soon.

Will send CD one of his writings in which he defends the natural descent of man [Origin dell’uomo, 2d ed. (1870)].

CD’s theory is making great progress in Italy and daily gains supporters.

Contributor:
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