From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 79
Summary:
Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B102
Summary:
Although their language is different, the Bugis are typical Malays both physically and mentally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15] [March] [1871]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B102
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- British Library, The: Add. 46434 f. 216
Summary:
Brief comment on Bugis ethnic group and their similarity to ethnic Malays.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hugh Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 195
Summary:
Will be pleased to collect information on the blind for CD when time allows. Generally very few (about one quarter) of blind people entering institutions are born blind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 29–30
Summary:
The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 37
Summary:
Comments on continued appearance of Revue [des cours scientifiques] despite German siege. Plans enlarged format to include politics and political economy. Repeats request to publish first part of Descent, chapter by chapter, to be followed by publication of the whole.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Bernard Lewin (Lewin) Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 217
Summary:
Case of hereditary transmission; in his own family ten of LH’s generation suffer a defect in the right knee-joint.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 175–6
Summary:
Comments on Descent [2: 358–60] especially on CD’s view that behaviour of lower animals is evidence against JL’s interpretation [of aboriginal promiscuity]. View on communal marriage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Morrish
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 244
Summary:
Having read extracts of CD’s work, he argues that the scriptural version of man’s origin is superior, and he is concerned about CD’s salvation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 392
Summary:
Second "edition" [of Descent] published this day. Offers CD 800 guineas.
Mentions Wallace’s review in Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 326
Summary:
Is studying Descent.
Raises two questions for CD: on the great percentage of female illegitimate births compared with legitimate,
and on clothing as accounting for hairlessness of humans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 63–4
Summary:
Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 393
Summary:
Demand [for Descent] is such that JM thinks he will have to print 1000 more copies. Does not want to trouble CD for corrections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44)
Summary:
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 195.1: 54
Summary:
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 394
Summary:
Completes payment for 2d issue [of Descent]; has sold 1300 of the 2000 copies printed. Will probably print 2000 more for 3d issue.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Hill Tiddeman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 141–2
Summary:
On the case of a male acquaintance with two pairs of mammae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 18
Summary:
Unfortunately he has missed an opportunity to review Descent in Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maria Burnley Hume; Maria Burnley Gubbins; Maria Burnley Bathoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 31–6
Summary:
Anecdotal comments on various sections of Descent:
Red Indians erecting their ears;
reasoning in a pet antelope, stag deer, and mongoose;
use of foot as prehensile organ by carpenters in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Charlton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 135
Summary:
Thanks for £50 contribution to Edward Cresy’s memorial. £1000 collected so far for an annuity for Mrs Cresy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project