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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Sends CD additions to his bibliographical list [missing].
Reports observations indicating that chimpanzees show compassion.
Asks who Fiske is. The articles [Harvard lectures?] are "so fair and in some respects so complimentary" that CD thinks he should write to him. [See 8058.]
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
Marriage is basis of all religious forms of thought, and this is the subjective equivalent of CD’s law that sex is the most important agency of universal development.
A French refugee and populariser of CD’s work asks for an audience.
Forwards a letter from R. O. Jones on the effects of castration on horns of male lambs.
Can photograph the scene CD requested only in the spring.
Heliotype is cheap but Woodburytype allows alterations.
Has read Variation and reports on markings on donkeys similar to those in vol. 1, p. 63.
Sends CD a measure with capacity of 20 oz or 34.65925 cubic inches.
News of progress of German editions of Origin
and Descent.
Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.
Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?
Sends paper on Artemesia.
Praise for Descent.
Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.
Almost 600 copies of Descent sold at trade sale, with 120 left in stock. Suggests printing another 1000 to give more time for correcting the work for 2d edition.
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
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.
Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.
The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]
Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"
Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.
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.