From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 254
Summary:
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A67–8
Summary:
Sends thanks for Expression; offers some additions, and will send printed queries abroad if CD wishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 130–2
Summary:
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 133–4
Summary:
Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Jane Douglas; Anne Jane Cupples
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 281
Summary:
Accounts of dogs that howl to music; their expression whilst so doing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 86
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s photograph, which recalls the Charles Darwin of olden days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 239–42
Summary:
Pros and cons of answering Owen’s letter.
On Artizans’ Dwellings, he approves the object but it is lost money as an investment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hugh Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 197
Summary:
Thanks for copy [of Expression].
Has now read Charles Bell’s book [Anatomy and philosophy of expression, 3d ed. (1844)].
Reports instance of person, blind from birth, frowning, when supposedly the blind cannot control the muscle required.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 429
Summary:
The reception of Expression has exceeded even JM’s expectations; 5267 copies were sold at the annual sale. CD’s modesty about the work had misled him about its probable sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 150
Summary:
Going on circumnavigation voyage aboard the Garibaldi.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 297
Summary:
Praise for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 430
Summary:
Price of Expression is 12s.
Sends cheque to pay CD his share of profits on Origin [6th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 211
Summary:
Is amazed at Expression. Like CD’s former works, it contains the material and principles of a new science.
The Zoological Station is making good progress – now has a fine building. Hopes for a stable income from contributions of various governments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 253
Summary:
Many thanks for Expression. AG relates some relevant observations, the significance of which had previously escaped him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A50–A51, A69–A70
Summary:
Agrees the rabbit experiment has gone on long enough, but would like one more litter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B115–16
Summary:
Appreciation [of Expression]. ARW will review it in Quarterly Journal of Science [n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 172
Summary:
The Michelets are ill and dispirited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry MacKay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 4
Summary:
Has just read Origin and Descent and wants to know: 1. Has man a soul? 2. Is man morally responsible "to his creative cause or force"? 3. Is there any form of after-life?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 231
Summary:
Thanks CD for Expression. Disagrees with his views on the genesis of melody; HS gives some reasons for believing it to originate in the natural cadences of emotional speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 116a–b
Summary:
Horns of female reindeer disappear after their calves are dropped [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].
Lemmings in Norway.
Contributor:
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