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DCP-LETT-8020

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Gustav (Hermann) Settegast
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Autogr. I/101/2, Bl. 3–4)
Summary:

Thanks HS for the preface to the 3d edition [of Die Thierzucht (1872)].

Has purchased H. von Nathusius’ work [? Vorträge über Viehzucht und Rassenkenntniss, Th. 1 (1872)]; feels he has ignored all that CD has attempted to make out with respect to domesticated animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8027

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 57
Summary:

Has read in papers about CD’s forthcoming work [Expression]; sends anecdote about a dog visiting a dentist for relief of a toothache – thus showing "moral courage".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8028

From:
Henry Bowman Brady
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 278
Summary:

Explains further N. S. Shaler’s view [see 8015] on rattlesnake habits as consistent with natural selection: the rattle attracts rather than alarms its prey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8029

From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 24
Summary:

Sends specimen of Prion.

Discusses beaks of flamingo and other birds.

Comments on function of lamellae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8030

From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1871
Source of text:
J. S. Clark 1917, 1: 389–91; DAR 164: 124
Summary:

JF’s indebtedness to Herbert Spencer. [Published version complete.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3589

From:
John Hampden
To:
[Clements Robert] [Markham]
Date:
23 October 1871
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 HAMPDEN, JOHN
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8031

From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 114–15
Summary:

Gives possible explanation for retention of horns throughout the winter by female reindeer.

Work on Atlantis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8031A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
25 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

Very glad to see Prion. [See 8029.]

CD offers OS upper and lower beaks of various ducks and geese if they are of interest to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1511

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
25 October 1871
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.132-133, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8031F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
Date:
26 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius n.s. 6 (1871–2): 168
Summary:

Thanks for information about male Seychelles islanders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3590

From:
John Hampden
To:
[Clements Robert] [Markham]
Date:
26 October 1871
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 HAMPDEN, JOHN
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4570

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
26 October 1871
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 221
Summary:

Asking MacLachlan to return unopened to Hampden the next two or three letters received from him.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8032

From:
W. Baranoff; Heinrich Koch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 39
Summary:

Correspondents are giving public lectures on Descent. Would like CD to supply a statement of his religious views for inclusion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8033

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
28 Oct 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Glad CW has written on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Sure that CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] will do cause good service.

Grateful for kindness to sons in America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8034

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
30 Oct 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 232–3)
Summary:

Has completed corrections for Origin [6th ed.], but has received no proofs. Hopes it will be published without delay.

Has been reflecting on Murray’s suggestion to stereotype the Origin. Sees advantage in that it will make him stop additions and changes in style. Inquires whether each separate sheet is stereotyped and can be altered.

Asks whether any copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8034F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
30 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/5/11)
Summary:

Has discussed the tenancy at Claythorpe with his father, and he will be happy for JH’s son to take over the farm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3591

From:
John Hampden
To:
Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
Date:
30 October 1871
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 HAMPDEN, JOHN
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8035

From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 25
Summary:

Sends CD some more ducks’ skins so that he can examine the lamellae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8038F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
31 [Oct 1871]
Source of text:
University of Redlands, Armacost Library
Summary:

Writes about proof-correcting by WED [of Origin, 6th ed.].

Goes to Leith Hill on Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8038

From:
Henry Gillman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 48
Summary:

Sends details of his discoveries of relics and bones of the "mound-builders", and Jeffries Wyman’s comments on them.

Contributor:
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