From:
William Rathbone Greg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 149–50
Summary:
Quotes authority on the decline in height of French army recruits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 21–5
Summary:
Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 321
Summary:
Thanks for Descent.
He is "driven" from his post.
He has homologised the face muscles of cetaceans and man. Although the former do not show expression, the nose and upper lip muscles are highly developed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 41–53
Summary:
On "moral sense" in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 37–40
Summary:
Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 56–9
Summary:
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Contributor:
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From:
Alexander Francis Baillie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 18
Summary:
Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 165–7
Summary:
On private property, with regard to tools and arms; comments on Maine’s book and the history of law regarding property.
Contributor:
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From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 275
Summary:
French translation of Descent all but complete.
Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.
Contributor:
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 228
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John James Aubertin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 126
Summary:
Thanks for letter and invitation to come to Down.
Sorry about CD’s bad health; Brazilian climate has improved his own.
Sorry to hear Miss Butler is dead.
Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 46
Summary:
Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 15
Summary:
Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.
Contributor:
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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 30
Summary:
Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.
Contributor:
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From:
William Johnson; William Cory
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 140
Summary:
Reports case of apparent consciousness of complicity in an elephant.
Believes that Darwinism is applicable to Greek language.
Contributor:
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From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 17
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 19–20
Summary:
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].
Contributor:
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 16
Summary:
Thanks for Descent.
Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.
The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.
Contributor:
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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C8
Summary:
Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 36
Summary:
Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.
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