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DCP-LETT-7860

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Darwin; Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Galton
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7)
Summary:

Thanks his aunt for a note about a picture bought by CD’s sons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7862

From:
Otto Kratz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 101
Summary:

Sends photographs of very hairy Burmese natives; suggests they may be the "missing link".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7859

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 22-3)
Summary:

Thanks JJM for willingness to introduce corrections into French edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7858

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.

Health and despondency.

Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7861

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B103–6
Summary:

Chauncey Wright’s article is sound, but so obscure ARW doubts utility of printing it separately.

Gives his own detailed analysis of Mivart’s attack.

Contributor:
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WCP1946

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B103-106
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 227-228
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 265-267]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7864

From:
John Coghlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 164
Summary:

JC offers to collect information under CD’s guidance.

Gives some notes on the colours of different horse breeds.

Mentions a wild duck that appears to be polygamous

and his observations on male ostriches with broods of young.

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DCP-LETT-7863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 July [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 248–9)
Summary:

Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. Its "cutting" article [on Descent, 131 (1871): 47–90] is worthy of Mivart’s skill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7865

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 and 14 July 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on CW’s article on phyllotaxy;

discusses criticisms of Origin by Mivart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7866

From:
George Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 229
Summary:

The cat exhibition was a success. Asks whether the next one might be made to serve interests of science and of CD’s investigations by, for example, offering prizes for cats with special modifications or characters.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7867

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 July [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (101)
Summary:

CD’s sons, George and Francis, are to visit the U. S. Can AG supply any letters of introduction?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7868A

From:
Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 230: 28
Summary:

CD named a corresponding member of the mathematical-scientific section of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7868

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B107–8
Summary:

Sorry CD allows criticisms of Darwinism to worry him.

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WCP1949

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B107-108
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 233
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 269-270]
Summary:

ARW reassures Darwin that he has an army of converts.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6765

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 11
Summary:

Gives CD some information on wills.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7841

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 21
Summary:

Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7870

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grove
Date:
17 July [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

The cat exhibition might provide information on unusual breeds of cats and their inheritance.

Expresses interest in deafness of white, blue-eyed cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7822

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [July] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 173–4
Summary:

Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.

Sexual preference of a blue turbit.

CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].

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DCP-LETT-7869

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
17 July [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7873

From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 94–5
Summary:

Observations on ocelli of Brahmaea certhia.

Monstrosity born to a woman – half bear, half human.

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