From:
Thomas Woolner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 161
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending his book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 26–7
Summary:
Notes on Variation and Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Brothers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.302
Summary:
Explaining why the moon's disc is circular.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 296
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 34
Summary:
Thanks for the gift of the book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 39
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Lindberg
Date:
21 February 1871
Source of text:
Sign. 630.1.1. 4, (1 868- 1 881), Arkivet, Svenska Literatursällskapet i Finland, Universitetsbibliotek, Helsingfors, Finland
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 193
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Descent.
Notes the death of Frank Parker [CD’s nephew].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(2))
Summary:
Thanks HHHvZ for a memoir
and answers some queries;
mentions some corrections for his Dutch translation of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 172–4
Summary:
Various comments on Descent;
on suicide on Gold Coast;
on mulattoes’ not being prolific.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 February 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.5, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes that he is pleased William Thiselton-Dyer is starting work on the Asclepiadoideae [for FLORA CAPENSIS]. The herbarium of Robert Wight will be at Thiselton-Dyer's disposal. William Henry Harvey is a model of how to approach complex systematic work. JDH approves of Thiselton-Dyer's plan to have an educational museum in the [botany] department [of Royal College of Science for Ireland]. Discusses sending Welwitschia specimens for the museum, 2 live specimens have already been sent from RBG Kew to Glasnevin [National Botanic Gardens, Ireland]. JDH will send Thiselton-Dyer Asclepiad flowers as they bloom at RBG Kew & a copy of Benjamin Delessert's ICONES SELECTAE PLANTARUM QUAS IN SYSTEMATE UNIVERSALI with figures by Joseph Decaisne. JDH adds he has not heard from India House about a flora of India, he is concerned about 'the neuralgia' & would like Salix specimens from Dr Moore for Kew's new 'Salicetum'.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 15–16
Summary:
Applauds CD’s expression of dissent from J. S. Mill’s view of differences of mental powers of men and women [Descent 2: 326–9]. Sends some corrections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[22 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.346
Summary:
Thanks TA for information on ice calorimetric work.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 210
Summary:
Suggests alteration in Descent [1st ed. 7th thousand] in citing pagination of George Busk’s paper "The caves of Gibraltar" [Trans. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archaeol. 3 (1868): 106–67].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 126
Summary:
Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Willam Odgers
Date:
23 February 1871
Source of text:
Z71/2347, unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
John Morley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 February 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 389
Summary:
Descent publication costs, "including a heavy item of £126 for corrections" have been received. JM can now offer CD 600 guineas for the edition of 2500 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 249: 105
Summary:
Receipt for payment by John Murray of £630 for the first edition, consisting of 2500 copies, of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Ellis Dudgeon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.508
Summary:
Relating his recent experiments in dioptrics. Encloses a model of his air-lens. Is grateful for the reference.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project