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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
13 [September 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 48
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Sept 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 224–5)
Summary:
Arrangements for distribution and review of pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s Darwinism: being an examination of Mr St. G. J. Mivart’s "Genesis of species" (1871)], which CD had reprinted at his own expense.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
H Ramu
Date:
13 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 147: 290
Summary:
Obliged for letter about appendages on faces of goats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B75
Summary:
Georgina [Tollet?] is eager to see a copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Gustav von Silcher
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
15 September 1871
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 83–84
Summary:
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Royle Martin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.403)
Summary:
Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H. Marval
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 77–8
Summary:
Observations on behaviour of spiders in Astrakhan and Turkestan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 48
Summary:
Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 204–5
Summary:
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Virginia Lavinia Isitt
Date:
[before 17 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 101
Summary:
Feels it unlikely that CD could employ a secretary but he is prepared to experiment if Miss I. would care to come to Down for a period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 September 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 95
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 49
Summary:
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 48
Summary:
Geese do not commonly sift water through their bills for food, as they feed on land. A few have well-developed lamellae for sifting. Will have his son check at Zoological Garden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Branwhite Clarke
Date:
19 September 1871
Source of text:
ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.The transcription given in Moyal (2003), pp. 879-81, differs from that given here
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sophia E. De Morgan
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
19 September [1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.439
Summary:
Sending 35 letters, has 20 more that she will send later if she would like to see them. Wishes she had the photographs of insects. Thinks an appendix of all the riddles would be amusing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
20 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 49
Summary:
Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 164
Summary:
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
