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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
31 Mar 1868
Source of text:
LL 3: 88
Summary:

Glad to hear that WP defends species transmutation. German support is the chief reason to hope that their views will prevail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
[before 21 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 262–5
Summary:

Replies to inquiries about his life and career.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 254–6
Summary:

Congratulates WP on the success of his lectures.

Discusses the phrase "struggle for existence".

Sends a list of his papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
17 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
Ralph Colp Jr (private collection)
Summary:

Comments on effects of prussic acid on different individuals of the same species and other physiological research by WP.

Provides information about his studies in Edinburgh and Cambridge and qualifications he had for Beagle voyage. Describes influence of R. E. Grant and J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
15 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 147: 256–8
Summary:

Comments on WP’s biographical article on CD. Asks him to thank O. F. Peschel for his present of the publication [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
30 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 147: 265–7
Summary:

Is sending copy of Descent.

Thanks for copy of WP’s book [Die Blutkrystalle (1871)].

Discusses shape of external ear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
13 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 147: 267–8
Summary:

Obliged for letter about human ear. Comments on ears and on E. R. Lankester’s idea about the ear-lobe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 268–9
Summary:

Discusses inheritance.

Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
25 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 269
Summary:

Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
27 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 270
Summary:

Will send copy of Movement in plants.

Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
28 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 147: 271
Summary:

Thanks WP for copy of his Die Seele des Kindes [1882].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project