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DCP-LETT-5387

From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: A81
Summary:

Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5388

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 185
Summary:

Wants to know whether Variation is published and how the other book [CD’s proposed volume on variation in nature] is going.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
1 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3)
Summary:

Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5745

From:
Mary Elizabeth Bowker; Mary Elizabeth Barber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Feb 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 40
Summary:

Replies to Queries on expression based on observations of the Kaffir and Fingoe tribes in South Africa.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5389A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1867
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 109–11; DAR 70: 146
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s letter inquiring about capsules produced by the Maxillaria with larger pods [see 5331]. Gives descriptions of Maxillaria and of the other Vandeae.

Describes Oncidium flexuosum.

Tells of botanical results of recent excursion to the German colony Theresopolis. Brought home fine collection of living orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5335

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Feb 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B122–3
Summary:

Will be glad to see her on 4th.

Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5390

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 138–142
Summary:

Has declined Presidency of BAAS.

Relation of insular and continental genera will always be difficult problem.

On Providence and the "continuity theory".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5391

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 115
Summary:

Thanks CD for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31] and "Climbing plants" sent to Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. Comments on Lythrum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147)
Summary:

Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.

News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5394

From:
W. H. S Gibbons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 36
Summary:

Asks CD whether he has given any thought to the phenomena of spiritualism.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
7 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 12)
Summary:

CD’s Variation is in printer’s hands.

Orchid self-sterility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5395

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 10–13
Summary:

On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.

Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.

Insular and continental genera.

Owen on continuity and ideal types

and on bones of Mauritius deer.

On man.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5396

From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 80: B152–3c
Summary:

On muscles in man for moving skin, hair, ears, etc.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5397

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 55, 57
Summary:

Sends CD an English translation of his preface to the revised German edition of Origin and asks his opinion of it.

Asks CD where he might get a specimen of Eozoon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5398

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
11 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 155
Summary:

Thanks WT for information.

Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5399

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 143–4
Summary:

Relieved that CD approves his declining the Presidency of BAAS. The BAAS and the role of scientific men in it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5400

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 170: 55
Summary:

H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5402

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[13–16 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London (dealers) (18 June 1979)
Summary:

Asks for specimen [of Eozoon] for J. V. Carus of Leipzig.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5403

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 6–7)
Summary:

CD thinks JVC’s preface is fair to Bronn. Regrets JVC has not added notes of his own, but, having dropped Bronn’s appendix, it is perhaps best to leave the text without comment. Rejoices that the German public can now judge the Origin fairly.

Has written to W. B. Carpenter for a specimen of Eozoon to send to JVC.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5406

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[18 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Asks to meet EB for a walk in the Zoological Gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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