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From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 163: 33
Summary:

AE, philosophy professor, is disposed to accept natural selection, but argues that it lacks direction. Suggests that direction would be given if one assumed the appearance of multiple advantageous traits in a single individual. Cites Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Claude Bernard, and Carl Vogt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[March 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 97
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 103
Summary:

David Forbes thinks WED’s chalk samples have been penetrated by surface mud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Joseph Hooker]
Date:
1 March 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. f. 36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 149
Summary:

Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 57
Summary:

Thanks CD for Origin, 6th ed.

Has declined chair at Strasbourg.

Describes research on calcareous sponges.

Criticises Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 104
Summary:

Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B109–110
Summary:

Response to 6th ed. of Origin. CD’s answer to Mivart on initial stages of modifications is complete; the "eye and ear objection" is not handled so satisfactorily.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 March 1872
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B109-110
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 236
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 271]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1872
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 119
Summary:

Thanks for new [6th] edition of Origin.

Is working on Echini.

The more material he gets the less easy it is to diagnose a genus or species. Has little doubt that "classification is nothing but the most arbitrary convenient tool, depending upon the material at our command at a special time".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/43)
Summary:

Thanks for facts about ducks.

Thinks TCE will be converted to principle of evolution if he continues testing facts for and against it. Natural selection is another question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
6 March 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 179
Summary:

A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 58
Summary:

P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 31
Summary:

Down parish and family matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
8 March 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.189-191, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 408
Summary:

JM arranges to pay CD for the latest issue of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[9 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 274–5)
Summary:

CD is vexed to hear that some of his friends and some booksellers complain of the type of the new [6th] edition of Origin. CD, whose eyesight is not good, had no trouble reading proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jules Marcou
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 March 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 242-243
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Duffy
Date:
11 March 1872
Source of text:
G72/7643, unit 750, VPRS 44 inwards registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria.Letter registered in the Chief Secretary's Department in March 1872 (A72/2606) and transferred to the Lands Department on 22 April. See W. Odgers to M, 25 April 1872
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project