Search: letter in document-type 
1870-1879::1871::06 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–20 of 72 items

DCP-LETT-7415

From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31
Summary:

Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.

Notes on echinoderms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-7696

From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 330
Summary:

Believes his letter of 17 Apr bears also on vol. 1 of Descent.

Ability to move ears is common in his family.

Similarity of foot of man to that of gorilla continues beyond foetal stage.

Invites CD to stay overnight if visiting the area.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-7793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 8
Summary:

Discusses homologies in various animal groups.

Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7795

From:
Thomas Bradfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 181–2
Summary:

Instance of a dog able to discriminate a note played out of tune. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 569.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
Text Online

FL-1179

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 298
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online

WCP6753

From:
John Hampden
To:
Committee of the Entomological Society
Date:
June 1871
Source of text:
[Archer, W.]. (1871). John Hampden persecuted. English Mechanic and World of Science : 13 (330): 436
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996)
Summary:

Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].

Discusses mimetic insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000889

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
1 June 1871
Source of text:
MM/14/159, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-7792

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Suess
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.397)
Summary:

Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.

Is sorry ES has suffered in health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online

WCP5735

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
1 June 1871
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 189-190]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7786

From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[2–5 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 243
Summary:

Further observations on expression of her dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-7792F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bradfield
Date:
2 June [1871]
Source of text:
Doyle, New York (dealers) (8 May 2007)
Summary:

Thanks for the fact about the dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7797

From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 108–111
Summary:

Facts contradicting Wallace’s views on coloration of Lepidoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-7796

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
2 June [1871]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.

Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7798F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/14)
Summary:

Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 June [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7)
Summary:

Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.

Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7799

From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 80
Summary:

Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.

Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7800

From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51
Summary:

Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-7802

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 75, 75a
Summary:

Follows up CD’s observation of 13 May 1871, of a New Forest pony shedding its winter coat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

DCP-LETT-7801

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 30
Summary:

On Down parish matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available