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DCP-LETT-11928

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.562)
Summary:

Comments on book by LAE and Gustave Gevaert [see 11916].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
2 [May] 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has just read GA’s article in Fortnightly Review ["A problem of human evolution", 31 (1879): 778–86]. GA’s views very probable. Something wonderful to hear anyone defending sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12081

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.564)
Summary:

Does not feel competent to judge on matters of measurement. R. B. Litchfield to look into case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.565)
Summary:

Asks that authoress be thanked for poem. Enjoyed poetry in old days; now cannot read a line.

Delighted that ERL will find time for original investigations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.566)
Summary:

Contributes to subscription for Grant Allen.

Regrets GJR and wife could not visit.

Encloses paper [not identified] by Thomas Meehan, a very inaccurate observer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
25 Aug 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD expresses the pleasure the Darwins had in the courtesies extended them by the Marshalls at Coniston.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for gift of game.

Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
14 Sept 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.

Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.

Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
Date:
4 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.459)
Summary:

Promises to send an oak.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
11 Nov 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Encloses a cheque to the Down Coal and Clothing Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Rogers Shaw
Date:
4 Dec 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.568)
Summary:

Thanks ERS for information about variation in horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13774

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13838

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.624)
Summary:

Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
American Philosophical Society.
Date:
5 Feb 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.378)
Summary:

Sends thanks for election to American Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thinks JJW’s account [in 7137] is significant for a theory of generation and should go to some scientific society; suggests additional data is needed. Quotes cases of subsequent progeny apparently affected by a previous impregnation. Perhaps not prudent to allude to "despised" Pangenesis, which CD fully believes will have its day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1870-1]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Declines offer of book on physics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
23 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.375)
Summary:

Thanks StGJM for prompt answer correcting inaccuracies in CD’s notes on StGJM’s opinions. Expects "universal disapprobation" when he publishes Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
13 May [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

In a fortnight will begin to arrange notes on expression. Asks for FCD’s conclusions about the contraction of eye muscles. Is interested in abstract of FCD’s experiments on "rate of travelling of the nervous powers".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7194

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
19 May 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Expresses sympathy [on death of FCD’s daughter].

Will be grateful for his paper and letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.379)
Summary:

Comments on QdeB’s volume [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)]. Mentions error concerning his views on Parus and nuthatch.

Discusses Canis magellanicus.

Discusses reception of his views in France and Germany.

Contributor:
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