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DCP-LETT-8118

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A40; DAR 195.4: 103
Summary:

Encloses "account of Dr H. M. Butler’s hereditary odd habit".

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DCP-LETT-6508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
18 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 177
Summary:

Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.

Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7412

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:

Sends CD a ptarmigan.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
10 [Dec] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 16
Summary:

Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.

Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.

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DCP-LETT-8090

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A39
Summary:

The rabbits arrived safely.

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DCP-LETT-8094

From:
Ulrich Kirchenpauer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 201: 19
Summary:

Wishes to have CD’s autograph.

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DCP-LETT-8097

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 172
Summary:

Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.

Now elicits CD’s views on chance.

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DCP-LETT-8098

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 149
Summary:

Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.

Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.

CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.

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DCP-LETT-8101

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 13
Summary:

Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.

Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.

Gives news of speech and paper about CD.

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DCP-LETT-8102

From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111v
Summary:

Announces that the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected CD a Foreign Associate.

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DCP-LETT-8103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
Date:
[after 9 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111
Summary:

Requests that PB express his thanks to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris for the honour conferred upon him [see 8102].

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DCP-LETT-8104

From:
Frank Walter Churchill Simmons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 185–6
Summary:

Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].

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DCP-LETT-8105

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 14
Summary:

Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 213
Summary:

Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
[15 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 2
Summary:

Congratulates Horace on passing his "Little Go".

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DCP-LETT-8107A

From:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 260
Summary:

Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.

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DCP-LETT-8108

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 98
Summary:

Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?

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DCP-LETT-8109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 214–15
Summary:

H. Holland keeps strongly to the opinion that Kew be under the Treasury, and will recommend this to Lowe.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8114

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 56
Summary:

Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.

His trip to Dalmatia.

German reception of Descent.

Mentions current work.

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DCP-LETT-8115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910)
Summary:

Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.

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