From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 245
Summary:
Arranges to come to Down with R. A. v. Kölliker.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 74
Summary:
Would like to visit CD at Down.
[Fourth] German edition of Origin will be out in a few weeks.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 75
Summary:
Regrets he cannot come to Down on day suggested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 209
Summary:
Asks CD to look at the "special phylogonies" on pp. 138 and 152 of his book [Forms of animal life (1870)]. His comments are based on reading Haeckel, who is highly speculative and quite wrong.
Contributor:
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From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 35
Summary:
Italian translation [of Variation] is delayed, but printing should begin soon.
Will send CD one of his writings in which he defends the natural descent of man [Origin dell’uomo, 2d ed. (1870)].
CD’s theory is making great progress in Italy and daily gains supporters.
Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 186
Summary:
Is not prepared to express an opinion on man’s origin. On pure anatomical grounds he would form a family of the higher division of the primates, but if man’s intellectual, moral, and religious nature is considered, then "he differs more from an Anthropoid Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite".
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 37
Summary:
Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.
Contributor:
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 187
Summary:
Apologises for saying more than was necessary in his previous letter. Although he feels gratitude and esteem for CD, he execrates those who use natural selection to oppose man’s higher interests and impede his advance. Has seen Huxley’s Man’s place in nature for sale among a crowd of obscenities at most Italian railway stations.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A15–16
Summary:
Rabbits still running true; hopes to increase alien blood to 30%.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[27 Apr 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A16v
Summary:
Is much obliged for information [about rabbits?].
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 292
Summary:
Will send deerhound puppy.
Is critical of Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
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From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 174: 68
Summary:
Sends his "Charles Darwin, eine biographische Skizze" [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 180: 8
Summary:
About the insertion of a column on marriage of cousins in the census form.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A17–18
Summary:
Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.
Contributor:
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From:
Patrick Nicol
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 55
Summary:
Answers to CD’s queries on expression; observations on the facial expressions of the insane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
15 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 147: 256–8
Summary:
Comments on WP’s biographical article on CD. Asks him to thank O. F. Peschel for his present of the publication [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 62
Summary:
On death of his wife. Botany a solace.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 79
Summary:
Asks CD to review Wallace’s recent book of essays [Natural selection (1870)], particularly the new essay, which questions the applicability of natural selection to man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 120
Summary:
Announces CD’s election as Honorary Member of the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 147
Summary:
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.18
- Galton, Francis11
- Kovalevsky, V. O.11
- Reade, W. W.9
- Murray, John (b)8
- Crichton-Browne, James7
- Darwin, Francis7
- Mivart, S. G. J.7
- Farrer, T. H.6
- Lubbock, John6
- Ogle, William6
- Cupples, George5
- Darwin, E. A.4
- Darwin, G. H.4
- Gray, Asa4
- Weir, J. J.4
- Carus, J. V.3
- Darwin, H. E.3
- Delpino, Federico3
- Donders, F. C.3
- Farr, William3
- Fox, W. D.3
- Günther, Albert3
- Litchfield, H. E.3
- Newton, Alfred3
- Preyer, William3
- Sulivan, B. J.3
- Wallace, A. R.3
- Wood, T. W.3
- Appleton, C. E. C. B.2
- Bates, H. W.2
- Child, G. W.2
- Forbes, David2
- Harrison, L. C.2
- Huxley, T. H.2
- John Murray2
- Koninck, L.-G. De2
- Mostyn Owen, M. S.2
- Müller, Hermann2
- Parker, M. S.2
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages2
- Quetelet, Adolphe2
- Rye, E. C.2
- Rérolle, Louis2
- Swinhoe, Robert2
- Vivian, H. H.2
- Wedgwood, L. C.2
- Youmans, E. L.2
- Acland, C. L.1
- Agassiz, Alexander1
- Albrecht, R. F.1
- Barrande, Joachim1
- Bates, Frederick1
- Bence Jones, Henry1
- Beneden, Édouard van1
- Benson, Berry1
- Bissell, G. P.1
- Blore, E. W.1
- Boner, Charles1
- Broca, Paul1
- Brodie, B. C., Jr1
- Brooke, C. A. J.1
- Butler, A. G.1
- Canestrini, Giovanni1
- Caton, J. D.1
- Clarke, Benjamin1
- Cobbe, F. P.1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Cupples, A. J.1
- D. Appleton & Co1
- Dareste, Camille1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Dawkins, W. B.1
- Denison, Emma1
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Douglas, A. J.1
- Flower, W. H.1
- Forster, Thompson1
- Gage, John1
- Gascoyen, G. G.1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, R. A. T.1
- Gray, J. L.1
- Groom Napier, C. O.1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus1
- Hayden, F. V.1
- Henslow, George1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Hoffmann, Hermann1
- Holland, Henry1
- Hordern, E. F.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Kovalevskaya, S. V.1
- Kovalevsky, A. O.1
- Kölliker, R. A. von1
- Lankester, E. R.1
- Lubbock, E. F.1
- Merrell, S. A.1
- Michels, John1
- Morgan, L. H.1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Nicol, Patrick1
- Orton, James1
- Pender, Emma1
- Pender, John1
- Recht, Georg1
- Renard, Charles1
- Reuter, Adolf1
- Rolleston, George1
- Salvin, Osbert1
- Schmick, J. H.1
- Sedgwick, Adam1
- Smith, W. G.1
- Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique1
- Stoddard, C. W.1
- Swale, William1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Thomson, C. W.1
- Turner, William1
- Tyndall, John1
- Unidentified1
- Weale, J. P. M.1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1