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From:
Maria
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871–82]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 24
Summary:

On the Christian God; questioning of CD’s religious beliefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Maria
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871–82]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 25
Summary:

Writes at length on importance of God and Catholicism, and the need to seek salvation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871]
Source of text:
DAR 189: 139
Summary:

Observations on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carel Hendrik Thiebout
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 39
Summary:

As a follower of CD, Spencer, and Kant, wishes to announce his work on the origin of "foolish illnesses" and prostitution [? Kort begrip der proefunderlijke zielkunde (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 196
Summary:

Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 57
Summary:

Describes a pouting expression in a 3½–year-old child.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rowland Henry Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871–82]
Source of text:
Romanes 1882a , p. 330
Summary:

An instance of long memory in a horse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 50
Summary:

Depth of furrows in old field.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 170–1
Summary:

On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 111: A77–8
Summary:

Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.

Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.

Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 230
Summary:

More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A23–4
Summary:

Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 51
Summary:

Appearance and depth of furrows in old field.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 140
Summary:

Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.

Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 383
Summary:

Sends title-page of Descent for approval. Asks whether CD has any idea of size of index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lambert Adolphe Jacques (Adolphe) Quetelet; Société Royale des Sciences, des Lettres, et des Beaux-arts de Belgique
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 175: 13
Summary:

Sends diploma of election to the Royal Belgian Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 384
Summary:

Sends list of journals to be sent review copies of Descent. If CD wants to add others, they will be included. Printing of 2500 copies ordered; retail price 24s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 79
Summary:

Has received (from CD) the sheets of the second volume [of Descent].

He fears he has offended CD or someone in England and he begs to know his offence.

His brother is working at the Red Sea and wishes CD to know that he has evidence for the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates in their nervous systems.

Plans to go to Paris upon its imminent capitulation to help his sister-in-law.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 43
Summary:

Meeting with CD postponed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 189
Summary:

Has sent CD his book [Genesis of species (1871)]. Has not said a word in opposition to CD except where his view of the truth necessitated it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project