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FVM-M71-12-14

From:
William Greig and others
To:
Charles Duffy
Date:
14 December 1871
Source of text:
Z71/15749, unit 596, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8107A

From:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 260
Summary:

Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
[15 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 2
Summary:

Congratulates Horace on passing his "Little Go".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 213
Summary:

Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7412

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:

Sends CD a ptarmigan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8108

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 98
Summary:

Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-12-17

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 December 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M3a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8108A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Lee
Date:
17 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (May 1988)
Summary:

Apologises for expressing himself stupidly [see 8086a]. He did not mean to give an opinion on what the species was, but merely referred to the range of L. australis. CD will look at specimens, but "the subject has gone much out of my mind; & my health is so weak, & I am so overwhelmed with proof-sheets & other work" that he hopes to be excused if he does not investigate the specimens closely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6508F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis-Adolf (Louis) Bertillon
Date:
18 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Librairie la 42ème Ligne, Paris (dealers) (2018)
Summary:

Thanks for his article Valeur philosophique de l’hypothèse du transformisme (Bertillon 1870), which is very clear.

Would not himself trust so much in Agassiz’s conclusions.

Glad the essay has been published, as he believes ‘there are but few in France who admit the doctrine of evolution’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
18 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 177
Summary:

Thanks her for marked proof-sheets.

Discusses climate in earlier geological periods.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 214–15
Summary:

H. Holland keeps strongly to the opinion that Kew be under the Treasury, and will recommend this to Lowe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M71-12-18

From:
Johann von Wächter
To:
Christoph Friedrich von Stälin
Date:
18 December 1871
Source of text:
Bestand E 56 Bü. 28, Haupsstaatsarchiv, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can ADB allow T. W. Wood to sketch one of his dogs in hostile and friendly positions?

Do elephants in the Zoological Gardens carry tails aloft when excited?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 387)
Summary:

Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
20 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.1425/71)
Summary:

Asks to borrow AG’s paper on denudation of flat or nearly flat surfaces ["On modern denudation", Trans. Geol. Soc. of Glasgow 3: 153-90]. CD has recently been making some observations he thinks throw a little light on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8113

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 33
Summary:

Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.

Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2278

From:
Edward Livingston Youmans
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 December 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 230-231
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8114

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 56
Summary:

Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.

His trip to Dalmatia.

German reception of Descent.

Mentions current work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910)
Summary:

Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 6 (EH 88205979)
Summary:

Requests further information on subsidence of flagstones because of action of worms.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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