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DCP-LETT-8088F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42)
Summary:

Summarises her theory about expression in music.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8129

From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 121–7
Summary:

Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8090

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A39
Summary:

The rabbits arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8094

From:
Ulrich Kirchenpauer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 201: 19
Summary:

Wishes to have CD’s autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8098

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 149
Summary:

Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.

Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.

CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8097

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 172
Summary:

Has frequently defended evolution and natural selection among his clergy brethren.

Now elicits CD’s views on chance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8660

From:
Armand de Watteville
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 40
Summary:

Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8100

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 261
Summary:

Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8101

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 13
Summary:

Reply to CD’s letter of 5 Apr 1871 [7659], in which he asked HA for further details on when and how platysma myoides contracts.

Replies to CD’s questions about sources on leaf arrangement.

Gives news of speech and paper about CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8102

From:
Pierre Paul (Paul) Broca
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 96: 111v
Summary:

Announces that the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris has elected CD a Foreign Associate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8104

From:
Frank Walter Churchill Simmons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 185–6
Summary:

Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8105

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 14
Summary:

Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8107A

From:
Louis Sulpice (Louis) Bouton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 260
Summary:

Pleased to hear from CD. Sends more facts about the life and habits of the inhabitants of the Seychelles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7412

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 252
Summary:

Sends CD a ptarmigan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8108

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 98
Summary:

Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8113

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 33
Summary:

Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.

Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8114

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 56
Summary:

Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.

His trip to Dalmatia.

German reception of Descent.

Mentions current work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8118

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A40; DAR 195.4: 103
Summary:

Encloses "account of Dr H. M. Butler’s hereditary odd habit".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8117

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 99–100
Summary:

Philosophical Club dinner.

Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.

James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.

No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8126

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A42–3
Summary:

Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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