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DCP-LETT-8241F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 39418)
Summary:

Offers to send German editions of his works when he return home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8240

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 119
Summary:

Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.

CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8241

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 55
Summary:

Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8242

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 56
Summary:

Plans for visit to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M72-03-15

From:
John Booth
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 March 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew Directors' correspondence, vol. 139, f. 64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8243

From:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 223
Summary:

Has failed to discover the signs of earthworm activity that CD described.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
D. Appleton & Co
Date:
16 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.412)
Summary:

Acknowledges payment from sale of his books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-03-18b

From:
Amadeo I, King of Spain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 March 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.50, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8245

From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 232
Summary:

On how various human emigrations have supported the work of natural selection.

Defends the view that soil and air account for taller stature of westerners in U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-03-18a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 March 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8247

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 57
Summary:

Will see CD tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8246

From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 32
Summary:

CD insists too strongly, in Descent, on man’s origin from a simian ancestor, rather than some other primate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8248

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
[20 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn (SANT/BEQ/4/4/55A)
Summary:

Has received GCW’s negative from the Heliotype Co. Thanks him for the beautiful work of art which, however, will make others on the same plate look ugly. [See Expression, pl. III, fig. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[after 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 137–8
Summary:

Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8249

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 120
Summary:

Describes habits of worms.

Discusses Leersia experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-03-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
23 March 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871- 81, f. 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1872-4]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.406)
Summary:

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001579

From:
unknown
To:
Gustav Plaar
Date:
25 March 1872
Source of text:
MM/21/13, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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FVM-72-03-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Jacob Agardh
Date:
26 March 1872
Source of text:
Handskr. Avdl., Universitetsbibliotek, Lund, Sweden
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-72-03-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Peter MacOwan
Date:
26 March 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, 'The botanical brethren', MSS BOT, Letter no. 18.One of a bound collection of photocopies of letters of eminent botanists, made from earlier photocopies which are in private hands
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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