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DCP-LETT-7133

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 5–6
Summary:

Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7132

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (91)
Summary:

The "man-essay" [Descent] is "very interesting but very difficult".

Cat-like behaviour in dogs.

Thanks for information from Louis Agassiz;

wishes he could feel he deserves what Alexander Agassiz says of him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7135

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 92
Summary:

CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7136

From:
R. F. Albrecht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 33
Summary:

Is currently at work on the development in birds of organs of flight according to CD’s principles; asks permission to quote CD in stating the theory.

Urges CD to republish his works in a collected edition, to make them more readily available to Germans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7139

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 7–8
Summary:

Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7140

From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 77
Summary:

Explains that law of inertia, and most of modern mechanics, is all wrong. Explains his concept of "elasticity" of bodies. Applies it to physiology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7137

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 81
Summary:

Describes the unusual appearance of a horse whose mother had previously borne a foal by a quagga. The effect of one mating on the subsequent pregnancy of another mating is explained by JJW using Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thinks JJW’s account [in 7137] is significant for a theory of generation and should go to some scientific society; suggests additional data is needed. Quotes cases of subsequent progeny apparently affected by a previous impregnation. Perhaps not prudent to allude to "despised" Pangenesis, which CD fully believes will have its day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7142F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
R. F. Albrecht
Date:
18 Mar 1870
Source of text:
University Archives (dealers) (17 August 2022, lot 526)
Summary:

Thinks the German publisher would not object to publishing quotations from CD’s works, unless it was a whole chapter.

Fears the development of bird wings will prove a very difficult subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
18 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 143: 330
Summary:

JC-B’s essays are the fullest CD has received. His observations on blushing closely agree with James Paget’s. Platysma and horror: Duchenne’s statement doubtful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7143

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 9–10
Summary:

Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
23 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 385)
Summary:

Has read and enjoyed the Kant that FPC sent.

Returns P. C. Despine [?Psychologie naturelle (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for Mr Ford’s woodcuts [for Descent]. Thanks AG for his kindness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 Mar [1870-1]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Declines offer of book on physics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
25 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections; DAR 270.1: 24
Summary:

Thanks WHF for his very good lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7149

From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 186
Summary:

Pleased to have encouraged CD to look at Kant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7150

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 76: B36
Summary:

His observations on mimicry in butterflies

and self-sterility in plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7153

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 69
Summary:

Describes crying in an infant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7152

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 175: 6
Summary:

He and Milne-Edwards are nominating CD for the Académie Française.

Sending book [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)].

Despite their differences of opinion, expresses his respect and admiration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1932

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 March [1870]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 200-201
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 251]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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