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DCP-LETT-13857

From:
Charles Wicksted
To:
Georgina Tollet
Date:
13 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 97
Summary:

Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6646

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 42–5
Summary:

Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
10 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77)
Summary:

Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7122

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 56
Summary:

On the expression of disagreeable surprise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7123

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[Mar] 1870
Source of text:
DAR 185: 58
Summary:

Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7125

From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 78
Summary:

CD was good enough to send notice of his new book [Descent] for the first number of the Academy; asks for further contributions and suggestions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7126

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 171
Summary:

Experiments with Lapageria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7127A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988)
Summary:

Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 167–8
Summary:

Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.

Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].

Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7129

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 183
Summary:

Will not be returning to London for a week; writes to save CD’s calling.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7130

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 296
Summary:

HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7131

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
14 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884 , pp. 19–20
Summary:

Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7132

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91)
Summary:

The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".

Cat-like behaviour in dogs.

Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;

wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7133

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 5–6
Summary:

Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7134

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 310, DAR 161: 323/2–5
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Origin.

Encloses extensive, but incomplete, notes on expression among the insane, dealing specifically with blushing and the actions of the platysma and grief muscles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7135

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 92
Summary:

CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7136

From:
R. F. Albrecht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 33
Summary:

Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.

Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7137

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 81
Summary:

Describes the unusual appearance of a horse whose mother had previously borne a foal by a quagga. The effect of one mating on the subsequent pregnancy of another mating is explained by JJW using Pangenesis.

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-7139

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 7–8
Summary:

Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.

Contributor:
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