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DCP-LETT-6282

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
20 July [1868]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks AdeC for correcting an error about thorns, which CD might have quoted.

CD will be cautious in regard to the muscles of the scalp. [Descent 1: 20].

His health has failed again "in the usual manner" and he has been ordered to do no work.

Repeats how interested and pleased he was by AdeC’s last long, remarkable letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6283

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 254
Summary:

Prof. Kühne would like to visit CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1177

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[21 July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 295
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-6284

From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 169: 43
Summary:

Sends completed translation of vol. 2 of Variation. Thanks CD for co-operation and asks to be informed when CD is finished with additions. Comments on sale of first volume and distribution of presentation copies of the second.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6286

From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: B78–9
Summary:

LA clarifies his opposition to CD’s views, which does not blind him to the great value of CD’s original researches.

Answers CD’s questions regarding sexual coloration of Amazonian fishes and the protuberances on the head of male Geophagus and Cichla during the spawning season [see Descent, pp. 520, 529].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14709

From:
Marianne Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
22 July [1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0907; Reel 1083
Summary:

Gratitude for gift of JH's translation [Dante?]. Pending marriage of Amelia Herschel to Thomas Wade.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6285

From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 178: 124; DAR 165: 53
Summary:

GHKT is going to procure some local smoke-coloured fowls and investigate them for CD.

Encloses letter on expression queries from S. O. Glenie.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6287

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 July [1868]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 241)
Summary:

Has come to Freshwater for five weeks for his health. Sends regrets to Prof. Kühne at not being able to see him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6288

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 225–6
Summary:

Asks for information on how many languages Origin has appeared in, how many English and American editions it has gone through, and its reception abroad. Wants to disprove statement that the theory is "fast passing away".

Baby ill, scarcely any hope of recovery.

Some botanical books have come for CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12089

From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
25 July [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.456
Summary:

Has heard from Mrs. Greig [wife of Woronzow Greig] that JH has consented to read the proof sheets of Mrs. Mary Somerville's work on molecular science. Sends the first 44 pages and would be pleased for any comments. Mrs. Somerville is in Naples.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE328

From:
John Murray JR
To:
John Herschel
Date:
25 Jul 1868?
Source of text:
HS 12.456, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-6289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
26 [July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 1
Summary:

Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6290

From:
George Henry Lewes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: D7–8
Summary:

Replies to CD’s letter [missing]. He does intend to treat of Pangenesis "as the most remarkable hypothesis yet put forth".

His articles in Fortnightly Review have grown in number so that he plans to make a book of them. Asks CD to send him notes of his objections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12090

From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 July [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.457
Summary:

Acknowledging the return of the proofs of Mrs. Mary Somerville's book. Is grateful for the revision and will forward the sheets to Mrs. Somerville for her to arrange and incorporate the suggestions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE329

From:
John Murray JR
To:
John Herschel
Date:
27 Jul 1868?
Source of text:
HS 12.457, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10672

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.43
Summary:

Is grateful for his note. Has sent a paper to the R.S.L. on cometary phenomena and encloses a copy of the part in which he refers to JH's views. Would be glad if it were possible to explain the phenomena of tails.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 80–2
Summary:

Sorry to hear of baby’s illness.

Comments on statement that belief in natural selection is passing away. Common descent of species is almost universally accepted now, and this is more important. In large part acceptance is due to Origin. Discusses reception of and interest in Origin in various countries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6295

From:
Charles Peter Layard
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
28 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A91
Summary:

Has black-boned cocks and hens that show the characteristic that Edgar Layard thought peculiar to the female line. Will provide any particulars that CD wants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
28 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 41
Summary:

Thanks GHL for his support of Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6294

From:
Alfred Wrigley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 183
Summary:

Leonard Darwin is to enter Woolwich Military Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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