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DCP-LETT-7156

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 11–12
Summary:

Better news about the rabbits.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7157

From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 173: 39
Summary:

JO found fossil shells in the Amazon Valley, which discredits Agassiz’s claim of a glacial origin.

Would like Huxley’s opinion of the fossil horse’s tooth from Quito.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 200–1)
Summary:

Thanks for a woodcut sent by ARW for Descent.

Congratulations on his removal from London,

and praise of his review of Francis Galton ["Hereditary genius", Nature 1 (1870): 501–3]. CD agrees with every word of it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7257

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet
Date:
[Apr or May 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 86
Summary:

Discusses the reasons for inserting questions on consanguineous marriages in the forthcoming Census.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7159

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B74
Summary:

"Your financial operations excite my envy beyond words." Reports on stock just received.

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DCP-LETT-7160

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
2 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 331
Summary:

Copy of Duchenne [see 7089] has not arrived; CD is concerned that it may be lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7161

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A13–14
Summary:

The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7069

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 or 9] Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 36
Summary:

Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7144

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 9 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 242b
Summary:

CD should soon receive woodcuts.

R. A. v. Kölliker would much like to visit CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 207–208)
Summary:

Finds Academy contains valuable matter for his work.

Descent progresses slowly – will not be ready for press for several months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7163

From:
Charles Warren Stoddard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 258
Summary:

Writes of some observations on the Sandwich Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7164

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 245
Summary:

Arranges to come to Down with R. A. v. Kölliker.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7165

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

DCP-LETT-7166

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

DCP-LETT-7166A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Date:
18 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
John Gittleman (private collection)
Summary:

Has sent off specimens of Virgularia but fears they are in bad state. He could not find his dried specimens. Encloses notes that can be relied upon but may be of little use.

Also encloses a memorandum for Prof. K. G. Semper.

CD thinks Alcide d’Orbigny may have given name of Virgularia patagonica.

CD enjoyed RAvK’s recent visit [see 7164].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1933

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 April [1870]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 202-203
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 252]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 236]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7046

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 12
Summary:

Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7168

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 209
Summary:

Asks CD to look at the "special phylogonies" on pp. 138 and 152 of his book [Forms of animal life (1870)]. His comments are based on reading Haeckel, who is highly speculative and quite wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7168A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:

Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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