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DCP-LETT-8107

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".

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DCP-LETT-8107A

From:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 260
Summary:

Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.

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DCP-LETT-8108

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 98
Summary:

Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?

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DCP-LETT-8108A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Lee
Date:
17 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (May 1988)
Summary:

Apologises for expressing himself stupidly [see 8086a]. He did not mean to give an opinion on what the species was, but merely referred to the range of L. australis. CD will look at specimens, but "the subject has gone much out of my mind; & my health is so weak, & I am so overwhelmed with proof-sheets & other work" that he hopes to be excused if he does not investigate the specimens closely.

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DCP-LETT-8109

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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DCP-LETT-8111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can ADB allow T. W. Wood to sketch one of his dogs in hostile and friendly positions?

Do elephants in the Zoological Gardens carry tails aloft when excited?

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DCP-LETT-8112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
20 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.1425/71)
Summary:

Asks to borrow AG’s paper on denudation of flat or nearly flat surfaces ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. of Glasgow 3: 153-90]. CD has recently been making some observations he thinks throw a little light on the subject.

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DCP-LETT-8114

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 56
Summary:

Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.

His trip to Dalmatia.

German reception of Descent.

Mentions current work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8115

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.

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DCP-LETT-8116

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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DCP-LETT-8117

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 99–100
Summary:

Philosophical Club dinner.

Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.

James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.

No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.

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DCP-LETT-8118

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A40; DAR 195.4: 103
Summary:

Encloses "account of Dr H. M. Butler’s hereditary odd habit".

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DCP-LETT-8118A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
23 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Is unable to accept invitation to Shrewsbury. Is grateful for offer of assistance at Wroxeter.

The weight of dry earth cast up by worms is 161/10 tons per acre annually.

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DCP-LETT-8118B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Lee
Date:
23 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1995)
Summary:

"I have now looked at both lots of specimens, & I think both are the variable L. anatifera.–– I have disarticulated the right-hand scutal valve in both & the umbonal teeth are plain in both … I have hardly any doubt that both are L. anatifera.––"

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DCP-LETT-8119

From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 24
Summary:

Sends a paper on denudation ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow 3 (1871): 153–90].

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DCP-LETT-8120

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.

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DCP-LETT-8120F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Adolphe Thiers
Date:
[before 26 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
Pall Mall Gazette , 26 December 1871, p. 7
Summary:

Open letter with multiple signatories pleading with the President of France not to exile Élisée Reclus.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
27 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A Abt. 1–52/26)
Summary:

Refers to priest who believes in "our ape-like progenitors".

EH’s work on sponges.

Pangenesis.

Describes new edition of Origin [6th]

and his work on plant crossing.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8122

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 17
Summary:

Sends description and measurements of the 18th century courtyard pavement of his house, the stones of which have sunk as a result of earthworm action [see Earthworms, pp. 192–3].

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DCP-LETT-8122F

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.

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