From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 98–9
Summary:
On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 111–12c
Summary:
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 194
Summary:
Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas William Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 22–3
Summary:
John Murray has commissioned him to redraw two birds. Hopes to re-do all of the birds taken from Brehm’s Thierleben.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frank Chance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 198–9
Summary:
His beard is darker than his hair, an exception to CD’s rule in Descent [2: 319]. Encloses sample of his hair, beard, and whiskers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 197
Summary:
WBT’s beard exceptional in that it is darker than his hair [see Descent 2: 319].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: 28–29
Summary:
Upset to learn he has misrepresented CD’s doctrine on Pangenesis [in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 19 (1871): 393–410]. Hopes that CD’s letter to Nature [3 (1871): 502–3; Collected papers 2: 165–7] will clarify the doctrine and attract attention to it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 102
Summary:
Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)]. The effect of the growth of forest land on their increase; meteorological and climatic effects.
Also observations made on increase in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of weasels that fed on mice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 83
Summary:
Points out errata in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 174: 40
Summary:
Suggests aesthetic sense in animals is merely secondary to sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 396
Summary:
Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.
Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.
The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 52, DAR 174: 69
Summary:
Thanks CD for Origin, 5th ed.
Comments on reviews of Descent by the Duke of Argyll and A. R. Wallace.
Lists the Darwinian professors at Jena.
WP’s work shows external ear to have no physiological functions.
W. Müller’s book not yet arrived. Will send Müller’s next works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ralph Ingham Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 113–14
Summary:
About a dog that acquired habits from a cat and her kittens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 397
Summary:
Concerned with photographic processes for illustrations [for Expression].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 104
Summary:
Information on the publishing history of a book [J. C. Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente, 4 vols. (1775–8)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49677: 35)
Summary:
Sends a small apparatus from Sarawak for getting fire.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oscar Gustaf Rejlander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: C47, C48, 176: 115
Summary:
Since it is difficult to catch the expressions CD wants, OGR is posing himself.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
