From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 126
Summary:
Additional errata in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Duncan Hague
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 81
Summary:
Sends a paper on behaviour he has observed in ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry A. Head
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 127
Summary:
Winter in Duluth.
HAH is leaning toward spiritualism.
Limit of natural and sexual selection.
Has been around the world three times.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Smith
Date:
27 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 138
Summary:
CD answers a question about the attitude of foreign naturalists towards Darwinism by distinguishing between the belief in evolution and belief in natural selection. Gives the views of [Louis] Agassiz, [R. A.] Kölliker, [C. W.] Nägeli, [Ernst] Häckel, [C. F. W.] Claus, [F. J.] Cohn, Alphonse de Candolle, [J. L.] Claparède, Asa Gray, Gaston de Saporta, [E. D.] Cope, and [Carl] Gegenbaur.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 299
Summary:
Sends his book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Hopes CD will publish an opinion of it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
28 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 342
Summary:
Hopes JC-B thinks that CD has properly acknowledged his debt in Expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Eustace Maclean Swanwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Feb 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 325
Summary:
Gives a case of peculiar behaviour in cats that apparently is inherited.
Contributor:
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From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 318
Summary:
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 109
Summary:
Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;
nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.
Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 99
Summary:
Recounts the difficulties in preparing the French translation of Origin: the 1870 war, the illness and death of J. J. Moulinié, the alterations and additions from the 6th English edition. Despite competition from Royer’s three editions, Reinwald is contemplating a new edition.
Descent, vol. 1, has almost sold out. Offers CD £40 for rights to reprint a corrected version of Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
4 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 343
Summary:
Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.
Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.
Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 9
Summary:
Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.
Contributor:
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From:
William Honnywill Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 123
Summary:
Asks CD about the origin of certain expressions in man.
Contributor:
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From:
William Frederick Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 211
Summary:
Opposes all corporal punishment. Pleased CD agrees with his pamphlet.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 82
Summary:
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
Contributor:
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From:
F. B Johnston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 183–4
Summary:
Various observations on sexual selection portion of Descent – ostriches, rosy-billed duck, egrets, rails, etc.
Contributor:
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From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 173
Summary:
Thanks CD for one of his books.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
10 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 379
Summary:
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jan Constantijn Costerus; Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
Date:
[22?] Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 11
Summary:
Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.
Contributor:
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From:
Gotthold Heinrich Otto (Otto) Caspari
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 117
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his book [Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, 2 vols. (1873)].
In Germany CD’s views have achieved great recognition among naturalists, but in other disciplines there is great controversy. OC’s book seeks to resolve the controversy by showing how state, morals, religion, and church have developed from natural beginnings.
Contributor:
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