From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1870
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 113
Summary:
Asks whether he may see CD before leaving England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 380
Summary:
Sends table of sales [of Journal of researches]. 2000 copies sold since 1860.
Descent has gone to press for 2500 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 66
Summary:
Returning CD’s books.
Sympathises with women’s lot in life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 191
Summary:
Has heard of CD’s forthcoming book [Descent] from J. D. Hooker.
Leaves next week for winter quarters in Sandown.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Stephen Augustine Merrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 158
Summary:
Offers to send his short article on the "Unity of generation" which supports the developmental hypothesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077)
Summary:
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 251
Summary:
A month in the West Indies, where he saw the luxuriant struggle of tropical vegetation, has brought HH "still more closely within the circle" of CD’s doctrine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 200
Summary:
Describes his children, who all seem to have inherited both dark hairs from their mother and light hairs from WGS with the latter greatly outnumbering the former.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 40
Summary:
W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thompson Forster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 160
Summary:
Details of an apparently hereditary deformity in a man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 3
Summary:
Sends CD a paper dealing in part with animal pigmentation [Med.-Chir. Trans. 2d ser. 411 [check vol no!?] (1870): 263–90]. Discusses relationship between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 85: 109–112
Summary:
Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10–17 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 4
Summary:
Relates instances of rabbits suffering from a condition which affects only the patches of white on their fur.
Will make observations on the platysma for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 41
Summary:
Pleased CD is quoting him in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jacob Heinrich Schmick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 55
Summary:
Sends CD two books outlining a new geological theory. Believes his theory explains the discontinuities in the fossil record.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 295
Summary:
Glad "Bran" [deerhound puppy] arrived safely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 381
Summary:
JM reports 1900 [advance] copies of Descent were taken at his annual sale,
and 340 copies of Origin [5th ed.] were sold.
Sheets for Dutch publisher will be sent to CD immediately. JM cautions against possibility that Dutch edition will anticipate the English.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 172–4
Summary:
Observations on winter colour of coats of male and female elk,
spots on deer,
and tuft of hair on breasts of wild female turkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 [Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 192
Summary:
Has heard "sad tales" about CD’s forthcoming book [Descent]; does not think even CD can persuade him his ancestors were apes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Nov 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 13
Summary:
John Lubbock has nearly finished his Thysanura book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project