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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 164
Summary:

Sends his review of St George Mivart’s book [Genesis of species] [North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 64–103] in which CW defends natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 and 14 July 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on CW’s article on phyllotaxy;

discusses criticisms of Origin by Mivart.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
17 July [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 165
Summary:

Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.

Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
12 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 148: 384
Summary:

CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] nearly ready. Friends have been much struck by it but say several passages rather obscure.

Glad CW coming to England. Will be delighted to see him at Down.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
23 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4)
Summary:

Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].

Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 166
Summary:

Thanks CD for copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

His memoir on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415] will soon be printed.

Has met CD’s sons.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
28 Oct 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Glad CW has written on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Sure that CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] will do cause good service.

Grateful for kindness to sons in America.

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 167
Summary:

Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.

Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
6 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
[11 or 21] Apr 1872
Source of text:
Joseph M. Maddalena (dealer) (Catalog 16: Spring 1992)
Summary:

Sends details of Alexander Dickson’s paper ‘On some abnormal cones of Pinus Pinaster’ (Dickson 1871).

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 168
Summary:

Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].

Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
3 June [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CW’s article responding to Mivart [see 8351] on the fixity of species is very clear.

On evolution of language, CD doubts W. D. Whitney’s claim that changes are effected by the will of man. Asks CW when a thing may properly be said to be so effected.

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 169
Summary:

Discusses ideas on the development of language; agrees with CD that it is a process governed by unconscious selection; he considers it analogous to unconscious selection of domestic animals by savages. Remarks on the differing views of Max Müller and W. D. Whitney regarding the origin of language and its development. Comments on the extent to which unintentional effects can be ascribed directly to the agency of free intelligent wills.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
31 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thanks CW for long, interesting letter; hopes the ideas will be worked into an essay some day.

Suggests dates for a proposed visit and gives instructions for reaching Down.

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 170
Summary:

Arranges to visit CD at Down.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
6 Sept [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Recommends J. C. Houzeau’s Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux [1872].

Was glad to make CW’s acquaintance.

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 171
Summary:

Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.

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From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 172, 173 f. 6
Summary:

Writes at length on the origins and meanings of particular head movements as used to express assent or disagreement, especially the sideways movements of the head as an expression of consideration or contemplation.

Also discusses space and colour perception.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
21 Sept 1874 and 29 Jan 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Head movements and their expressive significance. [P.S. explains letter was returned to CD because of a mistake in the address.]

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