From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
August Kanitz
Date:
3 July [1867]
Source of text:
C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
4 July [1867]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/15)
Summary:
Congratulates EH on approaching marriage.
Sorry he will not visit in autumn.
Glad EH is re-examining Protoamoeba but puzzled to think what he can find.
Describes newspaper account of criticism by Agassiz of Generelle Morphologie.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 July [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 92)
Summary:
Acknowledgment of article on mimicry [Westminster Rev. 88 (1867): 1–43].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 July [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.331)
Summary:
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
26 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 57
Summary:
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 143
Summary:
Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.
Asks him to return Adam Bede.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
30 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 8 (EH 8820 6060)
Summary:
Plans to write a book on expression. Questions WB on orbicular muscle in screaming infant and function of muscle contractions in looking at a distant object.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
31 July [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 17)
Summary:
Has abstracted for insertion in his sterility chapter [Variation 2, ch. 18], FM’s observations of plant’s pollen being poisonous to itself.
Occurrence of mimetic plants.
Colouring of Planariae.
Contributor:
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