From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A44–5
Summary:
Asks to have one pair of rabbits sent to him; is abandoning experiments with the rats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 222
Summary:
Observations on earthworm activity in old furrows on a hillside.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 178
Summary:
Notes the occurrence in U. S. of "vermiform piles" produced by earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 147
Summary:
Exchange of photographs among CD, AM, and Philip G. King.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 406
Summary:
Accedes to CD’s request to let Appleton have a set of stereotypes of the 6th English edition of Origin at a little above cost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Frédéric Martins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 60
Summary:
CD’s views, on which he has lectured, will succeed with time.
Joachim Barrande’s refutation cannot be impartial because he is a devout Catholic.
Many young French naturalists support CD but are silent for fear of their jobs. Houget has been reprimanded for his Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 212
Summary:
Praise for Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Feb 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 105–6
Summary:
Sends a communication [missing] from Gov. J. H. Lefroy of Bermuda.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Finlayson Mackenzie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 5
Summary:
An engineer in India, who has read Descent, sends observations on native racial characters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 63: 79–80
Summary:
Describes earthworm experiments. She has measured depth of mould in various locales, e.g., on ridges and furrows of an old ploughed field.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 407
Summary:
Sends first copy of new [6th] edition of Origin. Expenses have been much higher than estimated because of extensive revisions. 3000 copies retailing at 6s would yield only £100 profit. Suggests fixing price at 7s 6d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 February 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 86
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 52
Summary:
Sending sheets of his forthcoming work on Africa [Martyrdom of man (1872)] with views that differ from CD’s on music and sexual selection.
The Pall Mall Gazette will review the new [6th] edition of the Origin, together with Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sparkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 223
Summary:
Describes some crosses he has carried out with Primula;
mentions the infertility of cherimoyer [Annona cherimola] in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 208
Summary:
AD is sorry CD thinks publication of Descent a mistake. The excitement shows it was necessary for someone to speak plainly.
His great difficulties (Italian indolence, dishonesty, hatred) in establishing zoological station. Can at last start construction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 53
Summary:
Defends Descent against CD’s self-disparagement. The parts on the moral sense seem to him the finest in the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 88
Summary:
Accepts CD’s proposal for new revised edition of Origin; will pay $50 [dollars or pounds!?] for casts of the plates and pay CD on sales.
Appleton edition of CD’s Journal of researches [1871] still selling well.
Also wants plates sent with CD’s new work on Expression. CD should arrange this with Murray’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 140
Summary:
Thanks for new [6th] edition of Origin, which he read with great interest. Would welcome an edition with references to works cited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 74–5
Summary:
Compares Origin to Newton’s Principia and Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations.
His view of CD’s response to Mivart.
On mammae;
gradualism of evolution;
suicide among savages.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 50)
Summary:
Received copy of Origin 6th ed. Has had trouble with worm measurements at Winchester.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project