From:
Fulvio Martinelli
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 59
Summary:
[MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.416)
Summary:
Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].
Contributor:
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From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 178
Summary:
Will try again to draw the expression of a pleased dog.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
22 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 10
Summary:
Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
Contributor:
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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1872
Source of text:
Gilman 1899, p. 315
Summary:
JDD is sending a copy of his book, Corals and coral islands [1872], with his compliments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
Date:
23 May 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.417)
Summary:
Discusses books about cats and crosses in cats. Thanks her for her book on cats.
Contributor:
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From:
H Montague
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 231
Summary:
Sends MS of a book on progressive development on this planet and in the universe. Asks CD to underwrite its publication.
Contributor:
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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 168
Summary:
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A57–8
Summary:
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
Contributor:
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From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 179
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s books [unspecified].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
27 May [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/10)
Summary:
Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.
Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
27 May 1872
Source of text:
R. F. Batchelder (dealer) (Catalogue 22)
Summary:
Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A59–60
Summary:
Delighted CD’s groom will take the rabbits;
has just done proof of a paper to the Royal Society on "blood-relationship", defining kinship between parents and offspring.
Contributor:
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From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 180
Summary:
Sends a drawing of dog’s expression for CD to approve and return.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
29 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 147: 321
Summary:
Comments on drawing of dog. Will get it engraved [see Expression, pp. 52, 53].
Will send MS of Expression to printers next week.
Contributor:
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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 106: A6–7
Summary:
Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]
Contributor:
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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: A8–10
Summary:
Thanks CD for his note and cheque for young May.
Will send copy of second edition of Erewhon, in which he has set himself straight about "having intended no villainy by the machines". [See 8318.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Nicolaus (Nicholas) Trübner
Date:
30 May [1872?]
Source of text:
Dealer not identified (June 1994)
Summary:
Send parcel to Orpington station.
Contributor:
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From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 15
Summary:
A review and criticism of Chauncey Wright’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415]. Does not believe that the "distributive" and "cyclical" properties, which CW claims characterise the existing spiral orders of leaf arrangement, can be shown to be advantageous to plants. CW’s speculations on the origins of the spiral arrangement of leaves are purely hypothetical.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 180
Summary:
Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".
Contributor:
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