From:
Francis Alfred Hanbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 94
Summary:
Thanks for £5 for the Voysey fund.
Contributor:
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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 207
Summary:
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
Contributor:
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From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Estate of Richard Darwin Keynes (CUL DAR 245: 525)
Summary:
CD’s letter [7922] was very sweet to her, and if her marriage [to Richard B. Litchfield] can be half as perfect as CD’s she will be very happy.
Richard’s German fails in communicating with washerwomen.
Contributor:
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From:
Wallis Nash
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 172: 3
Summary:
In hunting dogs behavioural and physical traits are often inherited together and from either male or female parent.
Contributor:
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From:
H Ramu
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 20
Summary:
Informs CD that there are goats at Nancy with maxillary appendages similar to those of the ancient Irish pig [see Variation 1: 75].
Contributor:
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From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 383
Summary:
Replies to CD’s queries about the homologies of the avicularian and vibracular organs of Polyzoa and gives examples of gradations between the two.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B76–7
Summary:
Writes to check on stock certificates received.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 [Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B78–9
Summary:
Sees mistake he made on certificates; will make list for future use.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 47
Summary:
Prefers W. C. Wells’s explanation of the formation of the Nehro type to CD’s sexual selection.
Outlines his view of the origin of man by natural selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Giuseppe Carboni
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 45
Summary:
Requests CD’s autograph.
Sends photograph of an emblem, which he uses as his personal symbol: "Moleshott, Büchner, Darwin: Scienza e Natura, Forza e Materia".
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B80
Summary:
Location of stock certificates.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A33–4
Summary:
Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Sept 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B75
Summary:
Georgina [Tollet?] is eager to see a copy of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Contributor:
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From:
H. Marval
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 77–8
Summary:
Observations on behaviour of spiders in Astrakhan and Turkestan.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 48
Summary:
Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 49
Summary:
There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].
Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.
Contributor:
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From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 48
Summary:
Geese do not commonly sift water through their bills for food, as they feed on land. A few have well-developed lamellae for sifting. Will have his son check at Zoological Garden.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 49
Summary:
Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.
Contributor:
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From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 164
Summary:
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 39–42
Summary:
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
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