From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 74
Summary:
Would like to visit CD at Down.
[Fourth] German edition of Origin will be out in a few weeks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 75
Summary:
Regrets he cannot come to Down on day suggested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 76
Summary:
The outbreak of war and war work have interfered with JVC’s scientific work.
Publisher does not, however, think the war will hurt success of Descent in Germany, and JVC asks for corrected sheets for his use in translating it.
Wishes struggle between Romanic and Teutonic races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 78
Summary:
The pages [of Descent] CD wishes to correct are not yet printed.
JVC’s work on the translation has been interrupted by illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 79
Summary:
Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 98–9
Summary:
On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 106–7
Summary:
Sends corrections for Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 80, DAR 161: 81/2
Summary:
Publisher would like to produce a translation of Expression. JVC offers to translate it.
Sends passage from Albertus Magnus on colour of horses.
Offers explanation of white colour of sea-birds.
Schweizerbart is now reprinting Descent, nearly all the first 3000 copies having been sold;
new editions of Origin
and of Variation are also planned.
Possibility of a new German translation of Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 81
Summary:
News of progress of German editions of Origin
and Descent.
Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 82
Summary:
Asks whether he can start soon on translating Expression.
Thinks CD has gone a little too far on St G. J. Mivart’s objection, which he thinks did very little harm in Germany.
JVC’s history of zoology is finished [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 84
Summary:
Has translated half of Expression; is delighted with it. Comments on some points that he questions.
Is at work on concluding part of his handbook of zoology [Handbuch der Zoologie, 2 vols. (1863–75), with A. Gerstaecker].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 85
Summary:
Corrects CD’s spelling of the name of a statue: the Arrotino (spelled "Arretino" by CD) [see Expression, p. 184, on grief-muscles].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 86
Summary:
Doubts accuracy of Bible translations quoted by CD as evidence that Semitic races blush.
Questions his note on derivation of words like "ugly", "huge", etc.
Lists some mistakes and misprints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 87
Summary:
JVC questions accuracy of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s statement that the word for a toad in all European languages expresses the habit of swelling [see Expression, p. 104]. Has changed "all" to "some".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 88
Summary:
Asks whether CD has any changes to make in a new German edition of Variation, which is to be published next year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 90
Summary:
On a correction JVC thinks should be made in Variation on vertebrae of ducks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 91
Summary:
A new [German] edition of Expression is to be done. Has CD anything to add or alter?
JVC cites an article on cessation of breathing during mental concentration that supports Gratiolet as quoted in Expression, p. 179.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 May 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 89
Summary:
Publisher [Schweizerbart] has seen CD’s new book advertised [Cross and self-fertilisation] and wishes to publish a German translation of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project