Text Online
From:
John Morley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
18 February 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 387
Summary:
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julian Willis Abernethy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 140.4: 26
Summary:
A poem, "Burns to Darwin".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 313
Summary:
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 273
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.
Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.
Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39)
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Samuel Bindon
Date:
19 February 1871
Source of text:
VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 140, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 253
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 280
Summary:
Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.
Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[19 February 1871]
Source of text:
JHS 5.39 (C: 5.38 omitting the last paragraph)
Summary:
Mostly about how to deal with the implications of local attractions in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1870-11-17]; JH has had the mineral son John sent analyzed and sends the results. JH commiserates with daughter-in-law Mary's illness.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 199
Summary:
Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].
Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.
May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
20 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 334
Summary:
JC-B’s MS most useful.
P. Gratiolet’s observations on contraction and dilation of pupils of eye of a person in extreme terror. Has JC-B ever observed this? Expression has been his hobby-horse for 30 years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Arthur Hay
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 February 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418895
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 324
Summary:
Thanks for new book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Marcus Clarke
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 February 1871
Source of text:
Letter no. 42/I.T.M.71, Outward letterbook 1870-9, pp. 144, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 79–80
Summary:
Thanks for Descent; will forward any information he has after he has studied it.
Instance of inequality in left and right anal appendices of caddis-fly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
20 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 18)
Summary:
Sends corrections for French edition of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 388
Summary:
A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alfred Brothers
Date:
[20 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.357
Summary:
Thanks for, and comments on, some photographs of the solar corona.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.349
Summary:
Has received a letter from J. C. Poggendorf. Further reports on his experiments with gas.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project