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DCP-LETT-9209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
Date:
[18 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 384
Summary:

Much perplexed by W. Crookes’s article. He can neither disbelieve nor believe. Article has removed some of his difficulty in that the supposed power is not an anomaly. Hopes men such as G. G. Stokes will be induced to witness Crookes’s experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8041F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 37)
Summary:

Sends comments from himself and Erasmus Darwin on proofs of chapter 7 of Origin 6th ed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8077

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 117–118
Summary:

Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8078

From:
Robert Owen Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 119–20
Summary:

The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8079

From:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 78
Summary:

Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7377

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 62
Summary:

Displays in turkeys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8076

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963)
Summary:

Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8080

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A35–6
Summary:

Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0628

From:
Brodie, Jessie
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
22 November 1871
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8080F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 47)
Summary:

Sends back proofs. Praises CD for calm treatment of Mivart. Looks at duck’s mouth. Asks whether CD has seen Snow’s article in the Spectator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8082

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.

CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".

Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.

Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8081

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:

Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-11-23

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 November 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8083

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton
Date:
23 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1594)
Summary:

Reports how his sons enjoyed their trip to America.

Is glad SRSN is settled in Dresden.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8084

From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 385
Summary:

Thanks for information on platycnemic tibiae found in America. Believes the condition is of two kinds as exemplified by Gibraltar and Cro-Magnon tibiae on one side and the Welsh form on the other. Would like to know which of the two forms the American bones are; their proportions suggest they are very like the Welsh tibiae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8085

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 37–8
Summary:

Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8086

From:
Edson Sowden C. Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 161
Summary:

Offers to provide information on the habits of the animals of northern New York and Canada.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4571

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
25 November 1871
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 222
Summary:

Sending 100 copies of a reply to Hampden, to be distributed at a Society.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8086A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Lee
Date:
26 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990)
Summary:

Thanks HL for his kind note, the interesting notice, & the photograph.

He has made a mistake about the Lepas. It is the L. australis that is confined to the S. Hemisphere. L. hillii is found all over the world. Refers HL to Living Cirripedia [1851].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3420

From:
William Crookes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 November 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 73
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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