From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 July 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 July 1871
Source of text:
No. 2225, pp. 1391-2, unit 25, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of 14 of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
8 July [1871]
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (15 January 2010)
Summary:
Thanks for letter of introduction for his sons visiting America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 224-226
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 264-265]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers)
Summary:
Does not think WRG’s theory [about ridges of skin on palm and finger-ends?] will hold.
Does not believe the beard in monkeys and goats could be protective like the lion’s mane.
Thanks him for fact about setters.
Is perplexed about the reported milk secretion in pubescent boys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Requests advice about Chauncey Wright’s article on Mivart’s Genesis of species [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103]. CD thinks of publishing it as a pamphlet to counter impact of Mivart’s criticism of natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Agnew
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 July 1871
Source of text:
RSA/B/1 letter abstract book, no. 51, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
the Museo de Historia Natural de Madrid
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 July 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.17, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert Hugh Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 196
Summary:
Reports observations on expression in the blind; facial contortions and blushing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 229-231
- British Library, The: Add. 46434 ff. 232
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 268-269]
- Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 231]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Darwin; Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Galton
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7)
Summary:
Thanks his aunt for a note about a picture bought by CD’s sons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Otto Kratz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 101
Summary:
Sends photographs of very hairy Burmese natives; suggests they may be the "missing link".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871?]
Source of text:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 22-3)
Summary:
Thanks JJM for willingness to introduce corrections into French edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
CD is allowing his family to decide whether Chauncey Wright’s paper on Mivart is dull.
Health and despondency.
Doubts his ability to answer Mivart successfully [in 6th ed. of Origin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B103–6
Summary:
Chauncey Wright’s article is sound, but so obscure ARW doubts utility of printing it separately.
Gives his own detailed analysis of Mivart’s attack.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B103-106
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 227-228
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 265-267]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Coghlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 164
Summary:
JC offers to collect information under CD’s guidance.
Gives some notes on the colours of different horse breeds.
Mentions a wild duck that appears to be polygamous
and his observations on male ostriches with broods of young.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 July [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 248–9)
Summary:
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. Its "cutting" article [on Descent, 131 (1871): 47–90] is worthy of Mivart’s skill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 and 14 July 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Comments on CW’s article on phyllotaxy;
discusses criticisms of Origin by Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project