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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8018/1)
Summary:

Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/58)
Summary:

Intends to see Adam Sedgwick.

Arranges to meet AN.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 169–72
Summary:

Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].

Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.

CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".

Saw Alfred Newton.

CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,

and on cross- and self-fertilisation.

Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?

Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
25 May [1870]
Source of text:
Malmö Museer (MM 031994)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of part one of EPW’s Spicilegia biologica (Wright 1870).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14)
Summary:

Fertilisation of barberries.

Passiflora.

Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.379)
Summary:

Comments on QdeB’s volume [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)]. Mentions error concerning his views on Parus and nuthatch.

Discusses Canis magellanicus.

Discusses reception of his views in France and Germany.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard
Date:
28 May 1870
Source of text:
Stecher and Klavins 1965
Summary:

Thanks Society for honour of his election as Honorary Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
1 June [1870]
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks FD for seeds of Canna.

Still thinks it would be worth FD’s while looking at the fertilisation of Lotus; does not think Frank Darwin has exaggerated the novelty of the contrivance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
1 June [1870]
Source of text:
Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958)
Summary:

Thanks AS for his kindness towards himself and his family. Looks back with great satisfaction to his last visit ("as it will probably prove") to Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 [June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 174
Summary:

Returns H. C. Watson’s letter.

CD must study JDH’s manner of arrangement of varieties and subspecies, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
3 June [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks FCD for information.

Hopes that translation of his paper will appear in Dublin Journal.

Notes experience of his son [Leonard Darwin] on engorgement of eyes with blood. Discusses secretion of tears when eye muscles are involuntarily contracted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
4 June [1870]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38)
Summary:

Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 June [1870]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 204-205
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 252]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 332
Summary:

Duchenne [Mécanisme] has arrived. Has been testing the photographs with 20 or 30 persons; when all or nearly all agree with Duchenne, CD trusts him. Not one understood the "contracted pyramidal of the nose". CD does not think the so-called muscle of lasciviousness worth exhibiting.

His MS [of Descent] is so large he may print only what he has, and make a second volume of what he is now writing on expression.

Discusses photographs he would like to have: baby screaming, person in paroxysm of fear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 June 1870?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
13 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 93
Summary:

In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.

He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Date:
14 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 146: 22
Summary:

Thanks for RAvK’s work [Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien, pt 1, Die Pennatuliden (1870)].

Asks whether muscles to quills of porcupine are striped. Are they homologous to muscles of ordinary hairs? Could unstriped muscles develop into striped?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 June [1870]
Source of text:
University of Redlands, Armacost Library
Summary:

Asks about birds erecting feathers when enraged or frightened. Interested in examples of expression in birds and animals.

Tells of the sheldrake dancing on tidal sands to make worms come out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
14 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 43 (photocopy)
Summary:

When CD comes to London in ten days, he will "immediately call on you and explain why I cannot at once answer your question".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 June [1870]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 269)
Summary:

Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].

Contributor:
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