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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
April 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 230
Summary:
His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
1 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 147: 318
Summary:
Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
1 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:
Thanks for "Literatur & Tables zur Descendenz Theorie" [check title!?] taken from his Die Darwin’sche Theorie [1871], which CD had read with gratification some time before.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Murie
Date:
2 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Murie Papers 281)
Summary:
Testimonial letter. JM would be well fitted for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology of the Royal Veterinary College.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B81
Summary:
Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 58
Summary:
Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
3 Apr 1872
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 61)
Summary:
Thanks for vines and for all the information given him. Fears experiment will be more difficult than he had expected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 175
Summary:
Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 167
Summary:
Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.
Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
4 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 147: 319
Summary:
Thanks for kindness. BR must not think of trying until he feels inclination and strength for task.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Murie
Date:
4 April 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London: MS/93c 625
Summary:
Letter of support for Murie's application for the post of Professor of General & Comparative Anatomy to the Royal Veterinary College.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Elliot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 163: 16
Summary:
Reports and asks questions about the offspring from the purported pairing of a woman with an ape.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
5 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 148: 343
Summary:
Comments on AW’s work [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].
Discusses formation of local races.
Conchologist should investigate whether species of same genus vary during successive geological periods.
Comments on Franz Hilgendorf ["Über Planorbis multiformis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504].
Believes sexual selection will be judged a powerful agency.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
6 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].
Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:
Asks to borrow "Sölberg Wells, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye 1869" referred to by F. C. Donders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.413)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.
CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 413
Summary:
Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".
Has received German pamphlet.
Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].
Discusses his work on expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 173: 69
Summary:
Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:
Responds to GdeS’s comments on Descent [see 8246]. Cannot give up belief in close relationship of man to higher Simiae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project