From:
Charles Louis Bernays
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 18–19
Summary:
Older settlers in U. S. are taller and thinner than recent immigrants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 185
Summary:
Admires CD’s ability to work so hard under adverse circumstances; finds his health makes all work an effort.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 390
Summary:
First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 206
Summary:
Thanks CD for Variation.
From his work on insect embryology he sees a great parallelism between insect and vertebrate embryology.
The zoological station is slowly advancing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 210
Summary:
Suggests alteration in Descent [1st ed. 7th thousand] in citing pagination of George Busk’s paper "The caves of Gibraltar" [Trans. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archaeol. 3 (1868): 106–67].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 26–7
Summary:
Notes on Variation and Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
