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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 Nov [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.405)
Summary:

Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Jan 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D. Appleton & Co
Date:
16 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.412)
Summary:

Acknowledges payment from sale of his books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406)
Summary:

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
29 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on action of eyes in a person lost in meditation. Asks about Charles Bell’s explanation [in Anatomy of expression (1806, 1844)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
6 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.413)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.

CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bookseller.
Date:
12 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.414)
Summary:

Orders books: J. R. Leifchild, The higher ministry of nature (1872);

Hermann Müller, The application of the Darwinian theory to flowers [(1872?), reprint from Am. Nat. 5 (1871): 271–97];

and a review by J. B. Hunter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
20 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks FCD for suggested deletions in MS of Expression. Declines offer from FCD to examine proofs also.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.415)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Principles of geology, 11th ed.

Discusses natural selection in man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.416)
Summary:

Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
Date:
23 May 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.417)
Summary:

Discusses books about cats and crosses in cats. Thanks her for her book on cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
3 June [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CW’s article responding to Mivart [see 8351] on the fixity of species is very clear.

On evolution of language, CD doubts W. D. Whitney’s claim that changes are effected by the will of man. Asks CW when a thing may properly be said to be so effected.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
9 June [1872?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.408)
Summary:

Agrees to read paper; warns he lacks mathematical knowledge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420)
Summary:

Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
16 July [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Is correcting proofs for Expression.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

F. C. Donders coming to congress. Wants to arrange visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Thomas Gulick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.421)
Summary:

Mentions work he did in the Sandwich Islands. Asks to visit and bring shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Thomas Gulick
Date:
28 July [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.422)
Summary:

Invites JTG to visit.

Mentions visit from F. C. Donders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project