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DCP-LETT-5720A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
9 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 and 22 July 1988, pp. 212–13)
Summary:

Thanks for his memoir ["On the appendicular skeleton of the Primates"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5721

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
10 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 35–36)
Summary:

Sends errata for German edition of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5722

From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Dec 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 42
Summary:

On expression among Kaffirs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5723

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 6
Summary:

WSD is pushing forward as fast as he can with [index to] second volume [of Variation]. The work is fearfully heavy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5724

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 185
Summary:

Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.

Woolner is unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5725

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 7
Summary:

Regrets that the remarks in his letter [5712] seemed to CD to be criticisms. Nothing was further from his intention. He is working hard. "The subjects often seem to elude the Index-maker."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5726

From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 42
Summary:

He is sending two copies of vol. 1 of German edition of Variation. Thanks CD for rights to translate future works. Carus has begun translation of second volume. Asks when English edition will appear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5727

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
13 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4 o 333a. No 77, 2)
Summary:

English edition of Variation delayed by the index, ES may publish German edition at the end of December. Asks that Carl Gegenbaur be substituted for Haeckel on list of presentation copies of German edition, Haeckel will receive copy of English edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5728

From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 330
Summary:

Will return Federico Delpino’s two pamphlets soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5728F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
13 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Quaritch (dealers) (2007)
Summary:

Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.

Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5730

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 38
Summary:

CK is drawn into discussions of Darwinism everywhere in Cambridge. The climate has changed in the past three years: the younger M.A.s are greedy to know more and the criticism of the older Fellows has a new tone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5731

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 186
Summary:

Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.

Woolner comes on Sunday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5732

From:
Joseph Plimsoll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 54
Summary:

A sermon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5733

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: B72–4
Summary:

Sexual differences in reptiles, especially Indian [see A. Günther, The reptiles of British India (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5734

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Dec 1867 or early Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: B75
Summary:

The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5735

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339)
Summary:

Thanks AG for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5736

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 247
Summary:

Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5737

From:
Frederick Du Cane Godman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 59
Summary:

Sends a copy of his paper in Ibis [2d ser. 2 (1866): 88–109] on the birds of the Azores,

and one by G. R. Crotch on the Coleoptera [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 359–91].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5738

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 197
Summary:

Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5738F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Du Cane Godman
Date:
23 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Will be pleased to receive FCG’s paper. Already has that of [G. R.] Crotch. Encourages further independent work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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