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DCP-LETT-8097

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 172
Summary:

Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.

Now elicits CD’s views on chance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 ff. 24–5)
Summary:

Sends corrections for new French edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-12-05

From:
Robert Perrott
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 December 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8660

From:
Armand de Watteville
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 40
Summary:

Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8098F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:
6 Dec 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.

Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
7 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (C.452)
Summary:

Refers GH to vol. 2, p. 431 of Variation for the "perplexed conclusion" at which CD has arrived on variation and design. Has nothing to add to this statement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP672

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
7 December 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418327
Summary:

Asks for Stainton's opinion of J. Hübner's classification in his Verzeichniß bekannter Schmetterlinge.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0629

From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
8 December [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-71-12-08

From:
Lord Granville
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8100

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 261
Summary:

Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8101

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 13
Summary:

Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.

Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.

Gives news of speech and paper about CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8102

From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111v
Summary:

Announces that the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected CD a Foreign Associate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-12-09a

From:
Carl XV, King of Sweden and Norway
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 December 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M200a.11, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1542

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
9 December 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
Date:
[after 9 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111
Summary:

Requests that PB express his thanks to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris for the honour conferred upon him [see 8102].

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DCP-LETT-8060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
10 [Dec] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 16
Summary:

Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.

Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8104

From:
Frank Walter Churchill Simmons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 185–6
Summary:

Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP673

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
10 December 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418328
Summary:

Asks for exact translations of J. Hübner's generic characters in his Verzeichniß bekannter Schmetterlinge.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC242

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
11 December 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.74, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff that he is sending Cosmo Melville a report on the pamphlet relating to an injured poppy crop. JDH thinks the pamphlet is unfairly harsh toward Bihar Opium agents & should not have been published by the Government. He believes his report is to be sent to India so asks Grant Duff to read over it & get it approved by 'his Grace'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8105

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 14
Summary:

Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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