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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 56
Summary:

On the expression of disagreeable surprise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[Mar] 1870
Source of text:
DAR 185: 58
Summary:

Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 78
Summary:

CD was good enough to send notice of his new book [Descent] for the first number of the Academy; asks for further contributions and suggestions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 171
Summary:

Experiments with Lapageria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 167–8
Summary:

Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.

Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].

Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 183
Summary:

Will not be returning to London for a week; writes to save CD’s calling.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 296
Summary:

HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
14 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884 , pp. 19–20
Summary:

Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 5–6
Summary:

Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 310, DAR 161: 323/2–5
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Origin.

Encloses extensive, but incomplete, notes on expression among the insane, dealing specifically with blushing and the actions of the platysma and grief muscles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 92
Summary:

CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
R. F. Albrecht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 33
Summary:

Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.

Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 81
Summary:

Describes the unusual appearance of a horse whose mother had previously borne a foal by a quagga. The effect of one mating on the subsequent pregnancy of another mating is explained by JJW using Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 7–8
Summary:

Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 77
Summary:

Explains that law of inertia, and most of modern mechanics, is all wrong. Explains his concept of "elasticity" of bodies. Applies it to physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 224
Summary:

The illness and death of his daughter have delayed his answers to CD’s queries. He has, however, worked on the circulation of the eye and has almost finished a paper on it, which he will send to CD. In general, the views of Charles Bell are confirmed.

As for CD’s second query, he doubts that the relationship exists, but will answer fully in next letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
18 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 143: 330
Summary:

JC-B’s essays are the fullest CD has received. His observations on blushing closely agree with James Paget’s. Platysma and horror: Duchenne’s statement doubtful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 9–10
Summary:

Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 9 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 242b
Summary:

CD should soon receive woodcuts.

R. A. v. Kölliker would much like to visit CD.

Contributor:
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From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 186
Summary:

Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project