From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 4
Summary:
Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
5 Dec 1870
Source of text:
Dr W. N. Livingstone (private collection)
Summary:
Is sending by this post three sheets and will send another tomorrow thus almost completing the part on birds. His congratulations and thanks for PLS’s labours with them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
7 Dec 1870
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (90)
Summary:
Believes AG’s cases of incipient dimorphism are due to mere variability. Has found examples in Nolana and Amsinckia; believes such variation is the basis for the development of dimorphism. Was unaware of variations in Phlox.
Sensitivity of Drosera and Dionaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
Date:
[after 15 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 175: 12v
Summary:
Thanks Academy for his election as Associate Member.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903)
Summary:
Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.
Hopes to visit WO when next in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck
Date:
[after 19 Dec 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 83
Summary:
Thanks LGK for the part he played in getting CD elected as an Associate [of Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
20 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].
CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".
Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.386)
Summary:
Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].
Is correcting proofs [of Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
26 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:
Sending two sheets [of Descent]. About one-and-a-half more will complete PLS’s task.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2009)
Summary:
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
29 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:
CD is obliged for PLS’s correction [of Descent proofs]. Will add a caption to the woodcut [of the wart-hog] since it is too late to make a new one.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project