From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A44–5
Summary:
Asks to have one pair of rabbits sent to him; is abandoning experiments with the rats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 178
Summary:
Notes the occurrence in U. S. of "vermiform piles" produced by earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 147
Summary:
Exchange of photographs among CD, AM, and Philip G. King.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 406
Summary:
Accedes to CD’s request to let Appleton have a set of stereotypes of the 6th English edition of Origin at a little above cost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Frédéric Martins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 60
Summary:
CD’s views, on which he has lectured, will succeed with time.
Joachim Barrande’s refutation cannot be impartial because he is a devout Catholic.
Many young French naturalists support CD but are silent for fear of their jobs. Houget has been reprimanded for his Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 212
Summary:
Praise for Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Feb 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 105–6
Summary:
Sends a communication [missing] from Gov. J. H. Lefroy of Bermuda.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Finlayson Mackenzie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 5
Summary:
An engineer in India, who has read Descent, sends observations on native racial characters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 63: 79–80
Summary:
Describes earthworm experiments. She has measured depth of mould in various locales, e.g., on ridges and furrows of an old ploughed field.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 407
Summary:
Sends first copy of new [6th] edition of Origin. Expenses have been much higher than estimated because of extensive revisions. 3000 copies retailing at 6s would yield only £100 profit. Suggests fixing price at 7s 6d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 52
Summary:
Sending sheets of his forthcoming work on Africa [Martyrdom of man (1872)] with views that differ from CD’s on music and sexual selection.
The Pall Mall Gazette will review the new [6th] edition of the Origin, together with Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sparkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 223
Summary:
Describes some crosses he has carried out with Primula;
mentions the infertility of cherimoyer [Annona cherimola] in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 208
Summary:
AD is sorry CD thinks publication of Descent a mistake. The excitement shows it was necessary for someone to speak plainly.
His great difficulties (Italian indolence, dishonesty, hatred) in establishing zoological station. Can at last start construction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 53
Summary:
Defends Descent against CD’s self-disparagement. The parts on the moral sense seem to him the finest in the book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 88
Summary:
Accepts CD’s proposal for new revised edition of Origin; will pay $50 [dollars or pounds!?] for casts of the plates and pay CD on sales.
Appleton edition of CD’s Journal of researches [1871] still selling well.
Also wants plates sent with CD’s new work on Expression. CD should arrange this with Murray’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 140
Summary:
Thanks for new [6th] edition of Origin, which he read with great interest. Would welcome an edition with references to works cited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 74–5
Summary:
Compares Origin to Newton’s Principia and Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations.
His view of CD’s response to Mivart.
On mammae;
gradualism of evolution;
suicide among savages.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 50)
Summary:
Received copy of Origin 6th ed. Has had trouble with worm measurements at Winchester.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 54
Summary:
Saw editor of the Pall Mall Gazette about review of Origin and Genesis of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 89
Summary:
Enclosed account has had charged against it difference in costs between type composition in the U. S. and securing stereotype plates from Murray. CD should insist on securing plates from the London publisher of all future books, otherwise Appleton unable to pay 10% of gross price.
Contributor:
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