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DCP-LETT-5663

From:
Henry Napier Bruce Erskine
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 163: 31–2
Summary:

Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5664

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 36, 30
Summary:

Sends a letter he wrote in 1862 [see 3482].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5661

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 352
Summary:

Sends Dallas’ specimen of indexing [for Variation].

Asks CD’s opinion of likelihood of a hybrid of ass and bull, reported in a MS of a journey to Asia Minor he is reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5668

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 71
Summary:

Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
2 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 176–177)
Summary:

Dallas’ index [for Variation] well done but rather too full.

A hybrid from an ass and a bull is utterly incredible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 19)
Summary:

Variation to be published at end of month.

Dimorphism and self-sterility.

Seed dissemination in Adenanthera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13780

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 261
Summary:

Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5669

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
4 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 51)
Summary:

Sends corrected title of Variation and report of progress in printing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5670

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 2
Summary:

WSD is pleased that CD approves his index draft [for Variation]; notes his objection to long list of references under "Dogs" and will try to find a principle for shortening it. He has not indexed all authors’ names; is this practice satisfactory?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5670F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5671

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
8 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Suggestions on listing authors in the index [for Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5673

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 37
Summary:

Remarks on Darwinism’s reception. The radical press shies away, out of ignorance, because CD may be made out to be a Tory. He has met a Darwinian Marchioness.

The mystery of sex is the origin of all religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5672

From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 120
Summary:

Has sent CD’s queries on expression to some friends; encloses one set of replies [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5674

From:
Francis Elliott Kitchener
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 39
Summary:

Sends Swiss Aquilegia flowers in which insects have eaten away the spurs.

Suggests fetid smell of Stapelia attracts carrion flies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5675

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 3
Summary:

Thanks CD for his two notes [on indexing references to authors]; will increase the scope of his citations by including those quoted in footnotes in support of statements in the text.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5676

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 65
Summary:

Is not writing prospectus [of Variation] – merely sketch of contents and tenor of first volume for advertisement to booksellers.

Questions on details for the translation.

Publisher anxious to get volume out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5677

From:
Samuel Wilson
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
12 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 129
Summary:

Sends some answers [missing] to CD’s queries on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5679

From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 80: B154–5
Summary:

Distribution of plants.

Removal of posterior molars a common dental practice in America [see Descent 1: 27].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
14 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 52–53)
Summary:

Sends revision of vol. 1 [of Variation]. Advance sale at auction sold 1200 copies, to CD’s great surprise. Publication delayed by index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 35–6
Summary:

Has finished last revise of his book [Variation].

Is curious to know what JDH thinks of Pangenesis. It is fearfully imperfect, yet satisfying, for it connects large groups of facts by an intelligible thread.

Thomas Woolner is coming [to do a bust of CD].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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