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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Ellor Taylor
Date:
13 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 696)
Summary:

Thanks for sending his article in the Westminster Review [n.s. 41 (1872): 28–49] and the notice of CD’s work.

Natural selection is under a cloud at present, but CD expects that it will be resuscitated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (99)
Summary:

Questions AG on earthworm activity in North America and would welcome information from northern Canada if AG has a correspondent there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
15 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 289
Summary:

Obliged for QdeB’s efforts [to have CD elected member of Académie Française].

With regard to stress that QdeB lays on man’s walking on two legs, no one attributes much significance to difference in mode of locomotion between seals and terrestrial Carnivora or kangaroos and other marsupials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
15 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:

Is resuming the study of worm-casts as he believes they will bear on the denudation of land. Requests specific information on the relative number, size, and manner of deterioration of worm-casts in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John James Aubertin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 127
Summary:

A friend of JJA’s wants CD’s opinion on whether the disease porigo decalvans (hair falling out in clumps) demonstrates the link between man and dogs and has continued to evolve with man after he passed out of his "hairy-animal state".

Capt. [Richard?] Burton disagrees with CD’s notion of beauty in the abstract, and would like to meet him.

Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 142: 55
Summary:

Has no objection to CD’s alluding to FM’s idea that sexual selection has come into play in mimetic butterflies.

Reports observations on other butterflies and on termites.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 and 20 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 286
Summary:

His father has gone to Egypt.

Tells of visit to circus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Cormack Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 321
Summary:

Has some birds which are allegedly the result of a cross between a common fowl and a guinea-fowl; describes their appearance, and will provide CD with likenesses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Edward Dobbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 187
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet [not identified] in which he applies the principle of natural selection to the working of legislative institutions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Dawson
Date:
19 Jan 1872
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks recipient for memoir on fossil plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
20 Jan 1872
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

Thanks LHM for his work on consanguinity. [See 7299].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 117
Summary:

Discusses his paper on mimicry and natural selection [Land and Water 9 (1871): 321]. Believes natural selection tends to fix mimetic characters rigidly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Discusses the problems of mimicry as related to natural selection; the general variability of colour as a character; and the conditions necessary for natural selection to fix firmly a character.

Encloses a Fritz Müller letter speculating that organisms respond to certain colours because of the prevalence of those colours in their environment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1)
Summary:

His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.

Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 34)
Summary:

Discusses earthworm activity observed in old ploughed fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 297
Summary:

Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 103–4
Summary:

William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.

Other family news.

No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.

Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Stanley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 246
Summary:

Wants references to the work of Julius von Haast and James Hector on New Zealand glaciers, which CD mentions in the Origin [6th ed., p. 335].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.

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