From:
Charles Henry Brett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 74
Summary:
Corrects Descent: snipes do breed in Ireland.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Peach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 177–8
Summary:
Sends specimens of gulf-weed and cirripedes for CD to identify.
Various observations on Descent,
inherited deafness,
recognition of musical notes by dog, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 30
Summary:
Is sending his reply to Nature, justifying his misunderstanding as well as he can [see 7717].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 229
Summary:
Intends to answer Sir A. Grant’s article if CD does not. [A. Grant, "Philosophy and Mr Darwin", Contemp. Rev. 17 (1871): 274–81; H. Spencer, "Mental evolution", Contemp. Rev. 17 (1871): 461–2.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:
Asks VOK to translate a passage from Franz Körte, Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke [1828], p. 33.
Deplores the "fearful piece of tyranny" that is obstructing publication of Descent in Russia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Langstaff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 195.2 (letters): 37
Summary:
Contraction of platysma occurs during surgery under chloroform from touch of knife, independently of fear.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Lonsdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 47–8
Summary:
Credit for observation on supra-condyloid foramen in man is really due to Robert Knox, not John Struthers, as in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Richard Jesse
Date:
4 May [1871]
Source of text:
Scripps College, Denison Library (Perkins Autograph Letter Collection)
Summary:
Asks for information about habits of a breed of terriers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 82
Summary:
After reading Descent, MTM sends report of a dog that woke its master at 7 a.m. on work days and 8 a.m. on Sunday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Luigi Pomba
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 174: 57
Summary:
Arrangements for Italian translation of Descent [1871].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 May 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 289–90)
Summary:
Sends photographs he intends to use in Expression and asks for estimates of cost per thousand of each process [Woodburytype and Heliotype] suggested by RC and for different numbers of photos on each plate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 49–51
Summary:
Delighted that CD does not hesitate to follow his theory to its last consequences. "This is far more difficult in England than in Germany."
Wilhelm Müller in his new book [Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Rückenmarks (1871)], adduces many facts in favour of CD’s theory.
Various observations on the human ear. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 14 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
9 May [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.395)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for information about a dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 89
Summary:
Paris is in the hands of "brigands and socialists", but one grows accustomed to sporadic bombardment,
and VOK is peacefully studying invertebrate palaeontology collections.
Reports on Paul Gervais’ successful cross between a Triton and an axolotl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 May [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 278–9)
Summary:
CD is perplexed about illustrations for Expression, i.e., whether photographs are better than woodcuts. He thinks photographs, but does not know which process is preferable. Asks JM to inquire.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 398
Summary:
Offers CD same payment for the 3d issue of Descent as for 2d.
Has bespoke four better drawings of birds in case a 4th issue is needed.
Vanity Fair wants CD’s portrait by Carlo Pellegrini ["Ape"].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Luigi Pomba
Date:
10 May 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 46–7)
Summary:
Has no objection to LP’s replacing Loescher in publishing an Italian translation of Descent. Murray will give proper authorisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Wilhelm Spengel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 235
Summary:
Thanks CD for his letter referring to JWS’s bibliographical paper ["Darwinian bibliography", Z. Ethnol. 3 (1871): 56–67]. Will be glad to inform CD of any additions to the list and would be grateful for information on future publications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.396)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 1
Summary:
Wishes to inform CD that, contrary to CD’s impression, natural selection is widely accepted in U. S. by educated men; encloses copies of his lectures, papers, and the Index.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Murray, John (b)6
- Darwin, Francis5
- Kovalevsky, V. O.5
- Abbot, F. E.2
- Carus, J. V.2
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Galton, Francis2
- Innes, J. B.2
- John Murray2
- Masters, M. T.2
- Newton, Alfred2
- Pomba, Luigi2
- Preyer, William2
- Reeks, Henry2
- Unidentified2
- Balch, C. L.1
- Brett, C. H.1
- Buchan, Alexander1
- Butler, A. G.1
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Farrar, F. W.1
- Gillman, Henry1
- Holder, J. B.1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Jesse, G. R.1
- Langstaff, Charles1
- Lindström, Gustaf1
- Lonsdale, Henry1
- Peach, C. W.1
- Scherzer, Karl von1
- Smith, Andrew1
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Spengel, J. W.1
- Strutt, J. W.1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1