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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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
12 February 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
14 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (11 December 2007)
Summary:
Asks to have copy of Origin [6th ed.] sent to the Pall Mall Gazette for review with Mivart’s Genesis [of species (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
14 February 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.94, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker 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
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 February 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
15 Feb [1872-4]
Source of text:
University of California Berkeley, Marian Koshland Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library Special Collections (Darwin Collection QH365.D251)
Summary:
Seeks permission for his son to look for a paper for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[16 Feb – 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:
"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 or 23] Feb 1872 or [1, 8 or 15] Mar 1872
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Pybus (Professor Frederick) Archive GB186 FP/2/7/35)
Summary:
Suggests a visit to Kew to see the hot houses the following Sunday.
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
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[19?] [February?] [1872]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: Quentin Keynes" bequest (DAR 270.1: 24)
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace 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
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 February 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 357-358
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[19 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:
Sends 6th ed. of Origin;
draws attention to his criticism of ARW’s estimate of Kovalevsky;
mentions his disagreement with much of Spencer’s doctrine
and in a postscript points out an inaccuracy in an article in Once a Month.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
20 Feb 1872
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a quarto work on the mining industry. CD’s sons much obliged for kindness in California.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project