From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 23
Summary:
Comments on lamellae in Prion. Offers to send specimen for CD to examine.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
19 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 9 (EH 88205982)
Summary:
Thanks ACR for papers.
Glad present situation of our continents has been confirmed.
Wishes ACR would prove his view of origin of Red Sandstones, which many dispute.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
19 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:
CD would like to see the Prion [see 8016]. May he immerse the head in warm water so as to open the beak? Directions for sending the parcel.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
19 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 148: 328
Summary:
"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."
Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20-9 Oct 187120-9 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 222
Summary:
Fox hopes to see CD in London in November.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
[20 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 97
Summary:
Seeks HH’s support for Hooker in JDH’s difficulties with A. S. Ayrton and the Ministry of Works [see Nature 6 (1872): 211–16].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 85–6
Summary:
JDH’s servant carries his letter to Henry Holland about problems with Ayrton. Suggests servant take CD’s letter to Holland to town and post them at same time. Holland is said to be very intimate friend of Gladstone.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 211–12
Summary:
Has written to Henry Holland in strongest terms. Will be surprised and disappointed if he does not accede to JDH’s request.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 209–10
Summary:
CD agitated by JDH’s letter. Forgot to say that he heard Henry Holland was going to Turin. Beseeches JDH not to resign. No one could possibly replace him.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 87–92
Summary:
JDH has no intention of resigning. Thinks W. E. Gladstone would rather see Ayrton turned out than himself. Gladstone knows JDH has friends who would be troublesome. Only moral and political cowardice of Cabinet keeps Ayrton in office.
Lyell is much altered since autumn.
Has CD read Charles Martins’ paper on the glacial origin of the tourbières of the Jura [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 42 (1871): 286–308]?
John Scott has an admirable series on horticulture in Bengal ["Notes on horticulture in Bengal", J. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India 2 (1871) pt 1: 241–96; 3 (1872) pt 1: 1–82].
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From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 16
Summary:
Glad CD agrees with his views as much as he does. Not surprised that his red rocks [Red Sandstones] ideas are disputed. The red marls of Auvergne support his inland water theory.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101/2, Bl. 3–4)
Summary:
Thanks HS for the preface to the 3d edition [of Die Thierzucht (1872)].
Has purchased H. von Nathusius’ work [? Vorträge über Viehzucht und Rassenkenntniss, Th. 1 (1872)]; feels he has ignored all that CD has attempted to make out with respect to domesticated animals.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 57
Summary:
Has read in papers about CD’s forthcoming work [Expression]; sends anecdote about a dog visiting a dentist for relief of a toothache – thus showing "moral courage".
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Bowman Brady
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 278
Summary:
Explains further N. S. Shaler’s view [see 8015] on rattlesnake habits as consistent with natural selection: the rattle attracts rather than alarms its prey.
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From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 24
Summary:
Sends specimen of Prion.
Discusses beaks of flamingo and other birds.
Comments on function of lamellae.
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From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1871
Source of text:
J. S. Clark 1917, 1: 389–91; DAR 164: 124
Summary:
JF’s indebtedness to Herbert Spencer. [Published version complete.]
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From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 114–15
Summary:
Gives possible explanation for retention of horns throughout the winter by female reindeer.
Work on Atlantis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
25 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:
Very glad to see Prion. [See 8029.]
CD offers OS upper and lower beaks of various ducks and geese if they are of interest to him.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
Date:
26 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 6 (1871–2): 168
Summary:
Thanks for information about male Seychelles islanders.
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From:
W. Baranoff; Heinrich Koch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 39
Summary:
Correspondents are giving public lectures on Descent. Would like CD to supply a statement of his religious views for inclusion.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.8
- Salvin, Osbert8
- Bartlett, Edward3
- Cooke, R. F.3
- Huxley, T. H.3
- John Murray3
- Koch, Heinrich3
- Ramsay, A. C.3
- Albrecht, R. F.2
- Baranoff, W.2
- Brady, H. B.2
- Carus, J. V.2
- Dobell, H. B.2
- Flower, W. H.2
- Günther, Albert2
- Weir, J. J.2
- Wright, Chauncey2
- Bate, C. S.1
- Bouton, Louis1
- Busk, George1
- Crotch, W. D.1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Fiske, John1
- Fowler, J. K.1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Gill, T. N.1
- Gillman, Henry1
- Gray, Asa1
- Holland, Henry1
- Hope, J. L. A.1
- Mivart, S. G. J.1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Müller, Hermann1
- Settegast, Hermann1
- Stebbing, T. R. R.1
- Tait, Lawson1
- Tylor, E. B.1
- Unidentified1