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DCP-LETT-3653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
11 July [1862]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.

CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".

Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4094F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
[14 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 4 (1863): 378–9
Summary:

The niata is a very good case because the race is well established and must originate in South America. There is a description of the head by [Richard] Owen in the Descriptive catalogue of the osteological collection of the College of Surgeons.

Has observed modifications in the skeletons of rabbits, ducks, poultry, and pigeons. There is an extract about modifications in pigeons in the first chapter of Origin. Encloses a woodcut of crested or polish fowls; there is a change in the brain as well as in the exterior bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4166A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
14 May [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:

Is sending photographs of the niata skull [requested in 4082]. W. H. Flower reports that he could have a cast made for £3.3s.0d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
27 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 76–7)
Summary:

Specimens obtained from Charles Martins will be most interesting.

Comments on QdeB’s book [Physiologie comparée (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6645F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
6 Mar 1869
Source of text:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 72–3)
Summary:

Wishes to introduce his son, George Howard Darwin.

Has glanced at the second of AdeQ’s articles on natural history in Revue de deux mondes; ordered first article but second is already out of print.

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7285

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
20 July [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74)
Summary:

Sends list of his publications.

Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7285F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
21 July [1870]
Source of text:
Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks Quatrefages for his work on species. Explains that he received the Wollaston Medal for his three geological works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
23 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.382)
Summary:

Thanks QdeB for his continued support of CD’s election to French Academy.

Discusses views of Milne-Edwards on species.

Comments on views of Élie de Beaumont.

"I fear my next book [Descent] … will greatly displease you."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8159

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
15 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 289
Summary:

Obliged for QdeB’s efforts [to have CD elected member of Académie Française].

With regard to stress that QdeB lays on man’s walking on two legs, no one attributes much significance to difference in mode of locomotion between seals and terrestrial Carnivora or kangaroos and other marsupials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.409)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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