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From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 174: 68
Summary:

Sends his "Charles Darwin, eine biographische Skizze" [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 180: 8
Summary:

About the insertion of a column on marriage of cousins in the census form.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A17–18
Summary:

Good news: one little rabbit has a white forefoot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Patrick Nicol
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 55
Summary:

Answers to CD’s queries on expression; observations on the facial expressions of the insane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 224
Summary:

The illness and death of his daughter have delayed his answers to CD’s queries. He has, however, worked on the circulation of the eye and has almost finished a paper on it, which he will send to CD. In general, the views of Charles Bell are confirmed.

As for CD’s second query, he doubts that the relationship exists, but will answer fully in next letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 62
Summary:

On death of his wife. Botany a solace.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 79
Summary:

Asks CD to review Wallace’s recent book of essays [Natural selection (1870)], particularly the new essay, which questions the applicability of natural selection to man.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 88
Summary:

Concern over Wallace’s book [Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870)] and its apparent backsliding from Darwinian theory. HWB suggests that only CD is capable of criticising the book.

HWB hopes not too much was made over his few comments on man in M. F. Somerville’s book [Physical geography, revised ed. (1870)].

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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 147
Summary:

Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.

Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 120
Summary:

Announces CD’s election as Honorary Member of the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 47–50
Summary:

Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.

J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]

Contributor:
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From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 43
Summary:

Behaviour of ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 63
Summary:

Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.

Observations on insects visiting barberries.

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From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 225
Summary:

Has finished the article [on the action of the eyelids in Ned. Arch. Geneeskd. & Natuurkd. 5 (1870), also see 7238]; summarises: the occlusion of the eyelids protects the vessels, and the eye itself, against the danger of pressure caused by excessive expiratory action. The weakness of the conclusion is that the extent of the danger caused by the pressure to the normal state of the eye is not precisely known.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 226
Summary:

A detailed description of the physiological and anatomical processes related to the prolonged involuntary contraction of the orbicular muscles and the secretion of tears (as in retching, violent coughing, or laughing). [See Expression, p. 160.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 128
Summary:

Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 19–20
Summary:

Thanks CD for his help and encouragement in his series of experiments [to test Pangenesis].

Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 38
Summary:

The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.

Believes the Jollops select for blackness.

Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.

Has found stone instruments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 64
Summary:

Has sent F. Müller "a long screed" about the Passiflora.

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