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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
24 January 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 4-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 191
Summary:

Is sorry CD found Genesis of species unfairly critical. Assures CD of his just intentions and offers to alter certain words and phrases in a new edition. Emphasises his high regard for CD but fears his views are leading to religious decay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Andrews
Date:
[24 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.345 & 24.344
Summary:

Thanking him for his paper on heat developed in combination of acids and bases. Commenting on the various makes of calorimeters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
[before 26] Jan [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends enclosure copied from letter of F. C. Donders [7207?] dealing with orbicular muscle. Asks about secretion of tears resulting from spasmodic action of orbicular muscle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
Date:
[26 Jan – 3 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 91
Summary:

Seeks information and observations on the contraction of the orbicular muscles as a consequence of skin irritation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Aubrey Bowen
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 January 1871
Source of text:
Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.Notice found interleaved in in the Library's copy of Victoria Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council, Session 1850, Bills
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 269
Summary:

Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 77
Summary:

A bibliographical query arising in translation of Descent. Two misprints noted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
26 January 1871
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
26 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD’s health has been poor.

Appreciates JBI’s letter and his expression of friendship.

In the opinion of a Q.C., Horsman has no case.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 192
Summary:

Is glad CD does not believe he is biased by an odium theologicum. Comments on the first volume of Descent. Is convinced of the truth of evolution, but believes natural selection plays only a secondary role and that man is fundamentally different from the rest of creation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
26 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

CD apologises for having thought that StGJM’s religious feelings had led him to feel personal animosity towards him. [See 7454.]

He remembers having thought and written that belief in evolution is infinitely more important for science than belief in Natural Selection. For his own part he would have felt little interest in evolution apart from the explanation "in a general manner" of how each organism is so adapted to its conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[26 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.349
Summary:

Note to accompany a translation of one of GE's writings; also comments on the 'reform' of the German language.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
27 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Joline 1902, pp. 256–7
Summary:

Accepts the proposed corrections of his spelling except for "chloèn". [WSD was preparing the index for Descent, vol. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
27 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Obliged for specimens [of Paritium?].

Discusses difference between sport and parent tree.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B96–7
Summary:

Response to [vol. 1 of] CD’s Descent.

Not yet convinced on sexual selection and protection, though their differences are not so great as CD thinks.

On man, he does not think CD has accounted for every step of his development by "ascertained laws".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 January 1871
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B96-97
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 210
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 255-257]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
28 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thanks RM for information on case of hexadactyly [see RM’s paper, "Hexadactylism", Land and Water, 11 March 1871, p. 179.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
28 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 96–7
Summary:

He has found passage on false belief, Variation 2: 414, and does not think the whole with context is dogmatic. [Encloses copy of the passage.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 86
Summary:

Has received all the proof-sheets of first volume and of second volume to p. 168 [Descent].

Leaves for Paris tomorrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project