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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 41)
Summary:
Does not want CD to put his name to any religious movement. Discourages giving money to Abbott or Voysey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 405
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 163
Summary:
W. Crookes’s article ["Enquiry into phenomena called spiritual", Q. J. Sci. n.s. 4 (1874): 77–97] "staggers" her. Would like to know CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 2, 9, 252
Summary:
Describes the wedding party given for herself and Richard Buckley Litchfield at the Working Men’s College in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, W. E.7
- Carus, J. V.2
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Darwin, H. E.2
- Galton, Francis2
- John Murray2
- Litchfield, H. E.2
- Abbot, F. E.1
- Allman, G. J.1
- Baxter, W. W.1
- Busk, George1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Delpino, Federico1
- Forbes, David1
- Foster, E. S. C.1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Harrison, L. C.1
- Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus1
- Hennell, S. S.1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Jones, R. O.1
- Norton, S. R. S.1
- Regnard, Albert1
- Rejlander, O. G.1
- Rodwell, J. M.1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Shuttleworth, Caroline1
- Siebold, C. T. E. von1
- Spengel, J. W.1
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wedgwood, L. C.1