From:
Anthropological Society, Vienna
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 230: 32
Summary:
Cancel: Diploma, not a letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Grant
Date:
9 April 1872
Source of text:
G72/2606, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inwards registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz
Date:
10 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Summary:
Has received two copies of GvS’s Die Darwin’sche Theorie. As he already has a copy, CD will send one to the Royal Society [of London], and the other to the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
[11 or 21] Apr 1872
Source of text:
Joseph M. Maddalena (dealer) (Catalog 16: Spring 1992)
Summary:
Sends details of Alexander Dickson’s paper ‘On some abnormal cones of Pinus Pinaster’ (Dickson 1871).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bookseller.
Date:
12 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.414)
Summary:
Orders books: J. R. Leifchild, The higher ministry of nature (1872);
Hermann Müller, The application of the Darwinian theory to flowers [(1872?), reprint from Am. Nat. 5 (1871): 271–97];
and a review by J. B. Hunter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George James Allman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 54
Summary:
Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.
Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 178: 191
Summary:
On new [6th] edition of the Origin; comments on additions.
Owen’s attitude toward evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur John Edward (Arthur) Russell, Lord Arthur Russell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 225
Summary:
Has acquired some French frogs, Rana esculenta, which have mated with R. temporaria, but the spawn has not developed.
Asks whether anyone has successfully crossed frogs and toads.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
15 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69
Summary:
JS’s valuable observations on worms in India along with Asa Gray’s in the United States confirm CD’s opinion that worms work in the same way all over the world. Requests further information on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Antoine Guillaume Carlier
Date:
16 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (Papers of Edmond William Wace Carlier US47/234)
Summary:
Thanks AGC for some notes and his book [Darwinism refuted by researches in psychology (1872)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friend Lewin
Date:
16 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Kungliga biblioteket, National Library of Sweden, Manuscripts
Summary:
Suggests FL and Dr Maudsley come to Down via Chislehurst.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 231
Summary:
Protests against CD’s statement that FCD’s letter will make him "strike out a good deal". He would never pardon himself for being the cause of any suppression by CD. It is for specialists to put their knowledge at CD’s service. He is mistaken if he thinks a knowledge of physiology is sufficient for writing a book on expression. It is CD’s conception and spirit that all await. Offers to read those parts of the proofs of Expression dealing with physiology.
Contributor:
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 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:
Charles Crawley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 238
Summary:
His father sends a list (to be returned) of boarders at Shrewsbury School. Implies CD stayed at Mother Bromfield’s.
Sends Plautus quotation on expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2d Duke of Sutherland
Date:
[before 19 Apr 1872]
Source of text:
Correspondence between the Foreign Office and Her Majesty’s representatives abroad, and foreign representatives in England, on the subject of copyright: 1872–75. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers session 1875 (1285) LXXVIII.233–4
Summary:
Writes on behalf of British authors requesting improved copyright rights with respect to United States.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:
Returns borrowed book. Is surprised that any of us have eyes "seeing what a frightful number of horrid diseases the eye is liable to".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Crawley
Date:
19 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 301
Summary:
Thanks CC’s father for relic. Remembers almost every boy above him but few below him in the school.
CC’s translation seems capital.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A53–6
Summary:
Has attended one more séance, which he describes; tells of the freedom investigators have to check, although they cannot prearrange, experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
20 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks FCD for suggested deletions in MS of Expression. Declines offer from FCD to examine proofs also.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
21 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project