From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John St Barbe
Date:
[16 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 3r
Summary:
Wants to invest some money, as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Brown Gibson
Date:
[after 29 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 4
Summary:
Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 184
Summary:
AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.
Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 10)
Summary:
Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 319
Summary:
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 May 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 40
Summary:
Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.
Contributor:
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From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 9
Summary:
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Contributor:
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 7
Summary:
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[3] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96)
Summary:
Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 5
Summary:
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 23
Summary:
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 64
Summary:
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 [Feb] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 25
Summary:
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11v
Summary:
Announces a meeting of the Society to elect its officers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11r
Summary:
Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 65
Summary:
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
13 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 290
Summary:
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 198
Summary:
Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].
Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.
Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?
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