From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 54
Summary:
Saw editor of the Pall Mall Gazette about review of Origin and Genesis of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Fraser Tolmie
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 February 1872
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC 195 folios 161-162
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 89
Summary:
Enclosed account has had charged against it difference in costs between type composition in the U. S. and securing stereotype plates from Murray. CD should insist on securing plates from the London publisher of all future books, otherwise Appleton unable to pay 10% of gross price.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 [Feb 1872 - Oct 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 132
Summary:
Asks for investment advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 47
Summary:
Wants AR to make any observations she can on the occurrence of little ledges on the side of steep, turf-covered slopes. Feels they may result from the washing down of worm-castings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
24 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); DAR 53.1: C50
Summary:
Asks for the negative and permission to publish photo of smiling girl. [Expression, p. 202, plate III, fig. 2.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Pieter Johannes Veth
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 February 1872
Source of text:
KITLV - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies: KITLV H 636
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Nordhoff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 172: 72
Summary:
Reports the case of a cockerel raised in isolation from other cocks which repeatedly attempted, but failed, to crow properly.
Also discusses behaviour in horses; one male will "look after" 20–25 females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
28 February 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871 - 81, f. 34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anatole Roujou
Date:
28 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:
Has read correspondent’s work. Glad he is not shocked at belief that man is descendant of lower form. An unusual attitude for a Frenchman.
Fears they differ greatly on origins of moral sense.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred William Bennett
Date:
29 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Kōbunzo (dealers) (no date)
Summary:
Asks AWB for a reference to a paper;
thanks him for his generous review of the last edition [6th] of the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 102
Summary:
Amount of clay present in certain chalk samples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 43
Summary:
Disagrees with the "Darwinian theory"; does not see evidence enough to support it. Will send CD any notes he makes for or against.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
29 February 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871- 81. f. 35
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:
Has been looking for something about crop rotation in Origin and Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
29 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 148: 342
Summary:
Glad AW’s eyesight is better.
Has received AW’s essay [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].
Glad he is turning attention to sexual selection. Hardly any naturalists agree with CD on subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project