From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
18 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:
Inquires about the effect of turf covering on the rate of disintegration of rock.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963)
Summary:
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 117–118
Summary:
Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Owen Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 119–20
Summary:
The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]
Contributor:
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From:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 78
Summary:
Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A35–6
Summary:
Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 47)
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:
Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:
Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.
CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".
Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.
Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton
Date:
23 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1594)
Summary:
Reports how his sons enjoyed their trip to America.
Is glad SRSN is settled in Dresden.
Contributor:
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From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 385
Summary:
Thanks for information on platycnemic tibiae found in America. Believes the condition is of two kinds as exemplified by Gibraltar and Cro-Magnon tibiae on one side and the Welsh form on the other. Would like to know which of the two forms the American bones are; their proportions suggest they are very like the Welsh tibiae.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 37–8
Summary:
Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.
Contributor:
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From:
Edson Sowden C. Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 161
Summary:
Offers to provide information on the habits of the animals of northern New York and Canada.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Lee
Date:
26 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990)
Summary:
Thanks HL for his kind note, the interesting notice, & the photograph.
He has made a mistake about the Lepas. It is the L. australis that is confined to the S. Hemisphere. L. hillii is found all over the world. Refers HL to Living Cirripedia [1851].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 445–8
Summary:
CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.
Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.
Contributor:
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From:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 159
Summary:
Thanks CD for copies of the Origin and Cirripedia;
sends his latest publication in return [Beiträge zur Parthenogenesis der Arthropoden (1871)]. Discusses his work on parthenogenesis which, he believes, is a case of atavism.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
[before 16 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 13 (1873): 152
Summary:
Discussed observations made in 1863 of Impatiens pollen and humble-bees.
Contributor:
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From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 62
Summary:
Displays in turkeys.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[after 5] Nov 1871
Source of text:
Emma Darwin (1904) 2: 251–2; DAR 153: 79
Summary:
CD is "more than pleased" by what R. B. Litchfield said of him. Congratulates HEL on having "so noble a husband".
All were "profoundly" interested by HEL’s account [of their welcome at the Working Men’s College].
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 404
Summary:
Suggests CD have Origin [6th ed.] stereotyped.
Will sell out remaining copies of Descent at forthcoming trade sale, print off 500 or 1000 more, and then have the type distributed.
14 copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, W. E.12
- Cooke, R. F.4
- John Murray4
- Carus, J. V.3
- Darwin, H. E.3
- Litchfield, H. E.3
- Abbot, F. E.2
- Baxter, W. W.2
- Delpino, Federico2
- Forbes, David2
- Galton, Francis2
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.2
- Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus2
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Norton, S. R. S.2
- Oliver, Daniel2
- Sackville-West, M. C.2
- Stanley, M. C.2
- Unidentified2
- Allman, G. J.1
- Bennett, A. W.1
- Busk, George1
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Fiske, John1
- Foster, E. S. C.1
- Harrison, L. C.1
- Hennell, S. S.1
- Jones, R. O.1
- Lee, Henry1
- Lubbock, John1
- Phillips, John1
- Regnard, Albert1
- Rejlander, O. G.1
- Rodwell, J. M.1
- Salvin, Osbert1
- Scott, John1
- Shuttleworth, Caroline1
- Siebold, C. T. E. von1
- Spengel, J. W.1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wedgwood, L. C.1
- Westropp, H. M.1