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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872–3]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1266
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872–3]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1267
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872–3]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1268
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1292
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, Hensleigh
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1872–4?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2362
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872–4]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 151–2
Summary:
Notes some corrections for 2d ed. of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 105
Summary:
Worm action at Stonehenge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 101–2
Summary:
Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].
Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 277
Summary:
The difficulties of incorporating the reorganised chapters of the 6th English edition of Origin into JJM’s translation, which was made from the 5th edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 146
Summary:
Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 94: 216–17
Summary:
Heartily glad about the news of the Ayrton affair development.
Huxley looks very unwell from too much miscellaneous work; CD wishes he could be made a Director General for transference of British Museum and for other scientific work, as JDH suggests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
2–3 January 1872
Source of text:
DAR 245: 7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 18
Summary:
Further details and measurements of the stones in the courtyard pavement for CD’s investigation of earthworm action.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 49)
Summary:
Sends comments on his diagram of Stonehenge. Will go to Beaulieu.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 197
Summary:
Sends his reply to Huxley’s criticisms [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 168–97].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
5 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 331)
Summary:
Asks her to probe worm-holes on grassy slopes with a knitting needle to ascertain whether they come out at right angles to the slope or to the horizon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 198
Summary:
As a man of science, StGM has no choice but to pursue what he sees as the truth. Will happily admit he has misrepresented CD if CD will disclaim the position that StGM attacks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
8 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:
CD is grateful for the eulogy in Index [no. 104]. Many would disagree. It is the fashion to say he is a good observer with "an utterly illogical mind".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 137
Summary:
Thanks WED for checking through the proofs of a new [6th] edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Eduard (Eduard) von Eichwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 163: 13
Summary:
Sends paper on the coasts of Alaska.
Wishes to sell his large Russian palaeontological collection.
Wants to get in touch with American (Mr Dall), who is going to study geology of Alaskan and Aleutian coast.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Abbot, F. E.1
- Airy, Hubert10
- Allman, G. J.1
- Althaus, Julius1
- Apatowsky, Henri1
- Aubertin, J. J.1
- Ball, John1
- Bartlett, A. D.1
- Baudry, Frédéric1
- Baxter, W. W.2
- Bennett, A. W.1
- Blair, R. H.1
- Boardman, A. F.1
- Bowman, William1
- Bradshaw, Henry1
- Browne, Hugh1
- Butler, Samuel (b)3
- Carus, J. V.6
- Cobbe, F. P.3
- Conway, M. D.1
- Cooke, R. F.21
- Cooper, William1
- Craig, J. S.1
- Crawley, Charles1
- Crotch, W. D.1
- Cupples, A. J.1
- Cupples, George1
- D. Appleton & Co4
- Darwin, Amy3
- Darwin, C. R.79
- Darwin, E. A.5
- Darwin, Emma7
- Darwin, Francis4
- Darwin, G. H.3
- Darwin, Leonard6
- Darwin, W. E.10
- Davis, Mary1
- Delpino, Federico1
- Denny, John2
- Dickson, James1
- Dobbs, A. E.1
- Dohrn, Anton4
- Donders, F. C.5
- Douglas, A. J.1
- Eichwald, Eduard von1
- Elliot, Adam1
- Espinas, Alfred1
- Eyton, T. C.1
- Farrer, T. H.2
- Flower, W. H.1
- Forbes, David1
- Fox, W. D.2
- Galton, Francis13
- Garrod, A. H.1
- Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C.1
- Gloeden, [–] von1
- Gray, Asa6
- Green, William2
- Gulick, J. T.1
- Günther, Albert7
- Günzbourg, Charles1
- Haeckel, Ernst3
- Haliburton, S. H.2
- Harmer, F. W.2
- Harrison, L. C.4
- Harte, Richard1
- Head, H. A.1
- Heathorn, H. A.1
- Henry, H.1
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Hoernes, Rudolf1
- Holland, Henry1
- Hooker, J. D.18
- Housley, S. J.1
- Houzeau de Lehaie, Auguste1
- Howorth, H. H.1
- Huxley, H. A.1
- Huxley, Henry1
- Huxley, T. H.2
- Hyatt, Alpheus2
- IJkema, Johan1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jeitteles, L. H.1
- John Murray21
- Johnson, Henry (a)1
- Kovalevsky, V. O.10
- Krefft, Gerard2
- Layton, Charles1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lónyay, Menyhért1
- MacKay, Henry1
- Mackenzie, J. F.1
- Main, William1
- Major, C. I. F.2
- Mantegazza, Paolo2
- Markens, Isaac1
- Marshall, William1
- Martin, J. R.1
- Martinelli, Fulvio1
- Martins, C. F.1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Maudsley, Henry1
- Meldola, Raphael4
- Mellersh, Arthur2
- Meyer, A. B.1
- Michelet, Athénaïs3
- Michelet, Jules1
- Mivart, S. G. J.3
- Moggridge, J. T.1
- Montague, H.1
- Monteagle, Lord1
- Mostyn Owen, S. H.2
- Moulinié, J. J.1
- Murie, James1
- Murray, John (b)7
- Myers, A. T.1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Müller, Hermann1
- Nathorst, A. G.1
- Nicols, Arthur2
- Nordhoff, Charles1
- Nussbaumer, F. A.1
- Oxenden, G. C.1
- Packard, A. S., Jr1
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages2
- Ramsay, A. C.1
- Reade, W. W.15
- Reinwald, C.-F.5
- Renshaw, B. A.1
- Rivers, Thomas1
- Riviere, Briton8
- Roberts, Dora1
- Rothrock, J. T.1
- Ruck, Amy3
- Russell, Arthur1
- Russell, Thomas1
- Sackville-West, M. C.1
- Saporta, Gaston de1
- Schmick, J. H.1
- Scott, John2
- Sedgwick, Sara1
- Seidlitz, Georg von1
- Smith, D. T.1
- Smith, E. D.1
- Smither, A.1
- Snow, M. I.1
- Sobko, N.1
- Sparkes, George1
- Spencer, Herbert2
- Stanley, M. C.1
- Stanley, Thomas1
- Sulivan, B. J.2
- Sundström, Rudolf1
- Sutherland, C. L.2
- Sutherland, P. C.1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Tiemann, Friedrich1
- Treat, Mary1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tyler, D. F.1
- Tylor, Alfred1
- Tyndall, John1
- Unidentified3
- Wallace, A. R.4
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wedgwood, L. C.5
- Weir, J. J.2
- Williams, S. H.2
- Wright, Chauncey5
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