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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johann von Wächter
Date:
8 October 1871
Source of text:
Bestand E 56 Bü. 28, Hauptstaatsarchiv, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
8 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Does not know anything about a supra-condyloid process on the humerus, but would like to see RLT’s paper should he publish on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Crookes
Date:
8 October 1871
Source of text:
Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 403
Summary:
Will give printer orders to set up first six chapters of Origin [6th ed.]. Murray thinks a glossary [of scientific terms] might be advisable, if not longer than ten pages. Will offer W. S. Dallas £10 for it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Kersley Fowler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 169
Summary:
Is preparing paper on breeding ["Breeding facts and principles", J. Farmers’ Club (1871): 45–53]. Seeks CD’s advice and assistance. Believes male parent influences external appearance and female the internal organisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 289)
Summary:
Asks whether THH has written on affinities of Eocene cetacean Zeuglodon. Wants to cite it in 6th ed. of Origin as in some slight degree an intermediate form, but does not know how far he may venture.
Has had more evidence of profound impression of Mivart’s book [Genesis of species].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 297
Summary:
Is preparing a work on fertilisation of flowers, and wants to add a list of works containing observations on cross-fertilisation of plants. Asks CD for any references he may have.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 326
Summary:
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 21
Summary:
Encloses notes [missing] that he has made for CD on looking through his dried skins of American Anatidae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:
10 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.404)
Summary:
Doubts whether an experiment to test the durability of human bones would be worth while. Absence of such bones in post-glacial river-bed deposits does not weigh in the least on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 166
Summary:
Thanks CD for copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
His memoir on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415] will soon be printed.
Has met CD’s sons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 139
Summary:
On structure and function of the cetacean larynx.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 177
Summary:
Has seen CD’s sons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
12 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:
CD appreciates the great trouble OS has taken in providing a bundle of observations. [See 8001.] They are useful and will save CD from at least one blunder.
The structure of the beak of the shoveller "filled me with admiration".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 October 1871
Source of text:
Newcastle University Library, Special Collections: SW/1/20/1, Spence Watson/Weiss Archive
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
R. F. Albrecht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 34
Summary:
CD has omitted in all his works one of the most interesting causes of variation, domestic or wild – i.e., frightening of a pregnant animal; quotes case of eight-footed horse from a French translation of G. S. W. von Adler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
13 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 282
Summary:
First six chapters [of Origin, 6th ed.] sent to printer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
13 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:
Will strike out passage on larynx in cetaceans from his MS [of Origin, 6th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Turner Palgrave
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 October 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 224-225
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project