From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 253
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 273
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.
Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.
Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 313
Summary:
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 324
Summary:
Thanks for new book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 199
Summary:
Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].
Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.
May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 388
Summary:
A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Woolner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 161
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending his book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 79–80
Summary:
Thanks for Descent; will forward any information he has after he has studied it.
Instance of inequality in left and right anal appendices of caddis-fly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 172–4
Summary:
Various comments on Descent;
on suicide on Gold Coast;
on mulattoes’ not being prolific.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 296
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 34
Summary:
Thanks for the gift of the book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 39
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 193
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Descent.
Notes the death of Frank Parker [CD’s nephew].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 15–16
Summary:
Applauds CD’s expression of dissent from J. S. Mill’s view of differences of mental powers of men and women [Descent 2: 326–9]. Sends some corrections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 389
Summary:
Descent publication costs, "including a heavy item of £126 for corrections" have been received. JM can now offer CD 600 guineas for the edition of 2500 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C5–6
Summary:
Has devised a respirator for firemen by moistening cotton wool with glycerine and adding charcoal. JT suggests the nose with its hairs and mucus is a respirator that would give protection against diseases caused by floating particles. The presence of hair and mucus is thus explained by CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 126
Summary:
Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 55
Summary:
Received copy of Descent.
Discusses CD’s comments on EH’s work.
Speculates about reception by press and scientists.
Remarks on sexual selection;
on human relationship to catarrhine apes.
Has rejected offer of chair at Vienna.
Compares Jena to Down.
Describes growth of his salary.
Mentions birth of Emma Haeckel.
A. M. Norman’s collection of calcareous sponges is very valuable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Sachs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 3
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Admires natural selection.
Climbing plants has attracted attention in Germany, but most botanists are interested in cell development and similar questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 6
Summary:
Thanks for Descent.
He believes he has observed a predominance of the right side over the left in monkeys and man. If so, this is another support of their relatedness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project