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DCP-LETT-8057

From:
Albert Regnard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 85
Summary:

A French refugee and populariser of CD’s work asks for an audience.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8061

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 121–2
Summary:

Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8062

From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 116
Summary:

Can photograph the scene CD requested only in the spring.

Heliotype is cheap but Woodburytype allows alterations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8063

From:
John Medows Rodwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 189
Summary:

Has read Variation and reports on markings on donkeys similar to those in vol. 1, p. 63.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8065

From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 98
Summary:

Sends CD a measure with capacity of 20 oz or 34.65925 cubic inches.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8067

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 81
Summary:

News of progress of German editions of Origin

and Descent.

Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8068

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8069

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 148
Summary:

Sends paper on Artemesia.

Praise for Descent.

Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8072

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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DCP-LETT-8073F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 38)
Summary:

Says has sent a copy of CD’s memorial to Captain Jones. Passes on Sir Geo. Grey’s comments on pasturage near Morpeth. Tells superstition about straight furrows and fairies.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8077

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 117–118
Summary:

Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.

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DCP-LETT-8078

From:
Robert Owen Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 119–20
Summary:

The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]

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DCP-LETT-8079

From:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 78
Summary:

Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8080

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A35–6
Summary:

Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.

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DCP-LETT-8080F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 47)
Summary:

Sends back proofs. Praises CD for calm treatment of Mivart. Looks at duck’s mouth. Asks whether CD has seen Snow’s article in the Spectator.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8081

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:

Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.

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DCP-LETT-8084

From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 385
Summary:

Thanks for information on platycnemic tibiae found in America. Believes the condition is of two kinds as exemplified by Gibraltar and Cro-Magnon tibiae on one side and the Welsh form on the other. Would like to know which of the two forms the American bones are; their proportions suggest they are very like the Welsh tibiae.

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DCP-LETT-8085

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 37–8
Summary:

Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.

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DCP-LETT-8086

From:
Edson Sowden C. Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 161
Summary:

Offers to provide information on the habits of the animals of northern New York and Canada.

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DCP-LETT-8087

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.

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