From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 201: 1
Summary:
Urges CD to repent and seek salvation through Christ.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Louis Bernays
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 18–19
Summary:
Older settlers in U. S. are taller and thinner than recent immigrants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 6
Summary:
Thanks for Descent.
He believes he has observed a predominance of the right side over the left in monkeys and man. If so, this is another support of their relatedness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 185
Summary:
Admires CD’s ability to work so hard under adverse circumstances; finds his health makes all work an effort.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 390
Summary:
First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 206
Summary:
Thanks CD for Variation.
From his work on insect embryology he sees a great parallelism between insect and vertebrate embryology.
The zoological station is slowly advancing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project