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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Supports Epping Forest appointment.

Continues work on vegetable physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
4 Mar 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 48)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s letter on caddis-fly to Nature ["On a frog and caddis-flies", Nature 19 (1879): 462–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albin Gaertner
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4312/2)
Summary:

Thanks FAG for "the curious case of inheritance" [see 12064].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
4 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
Summary:

Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
[Nov 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127)
Summary:

Invites FG to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].

Groans over [what is said about] man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Summary:

Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.

Congratulations on his removal from London,

and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32)
Summary:

Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].

Pangenesis.

Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.

CD working on book on man and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 [July 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5)
Summary:

CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4)
Summary:

Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].

Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Aug [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 3120)
Summary:

Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
28 Aug 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 33)
Summary:

Mimicry in Lepidoptera.

Sexual selection.

The Franco-Prussian war.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Worthington George Smith
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 54224: 196)
Summary:

Thanks for the information sent by WGS in his letter of 4 November 1870.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 207–8)
Summary:

Praise for ARW’s reply [Nature 3 (1870): 49–50] to a paper by A. W. Bennett ["Natural selection from a mathematical point of view", Nature 3 (1870): 30–3] holding that mind is a leading cause of variation.

Is reading proof of his "confounded book" [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Responds to ARW’s comments on CD’s argument about protection in Descent.

Comments on St G. Mivart’s criticism [Genesis of species (1871)]. "The pendulum will now swing against us."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
30 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 50254: 37–8)
Summary:

Thanks EBT for present of Primitive culture [1871]. Feels certain he will regret not having read it before writing Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8018/1)
Summary:

Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project