From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 46
Summary:
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 15
Summary:
Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 30
Summary:
Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Johnson; William Cory
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 140
Summary:
Reports case of apparent consciousness of complicity in an elephant.
Believes that Darwinism is applicable to Greek language.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 17
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[7 March 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 619
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 19–20
Summary:
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904)
Summary:
Will write again to Tyndall about odours.
Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].
Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948)
Summary:
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 16
Summary:
Thanks for Descent.
Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.
The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Summary:
Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C8
Summary:
Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 36
Summary:
Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 391
Summary:
JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 64–6
Summary:
Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 60–3
Summary:
Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 21–7
Summary:
Clarification of the supra-condyloid foramen in humans and animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
about 10 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 103–8
Summary:
Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 and 14 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 174
Summary:
Has received CD’s new book [Descent].
Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rosa Mackenzie Kettle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 8
Summary:
Requests permission to quote from CD’s letters to Charles Boner in her edition [of Memoirs and letters of Charles Boner (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project