From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 89: 131–2, 187
Summary:
Sends sentences from Hermann von Helmholtz about difference between minor and major chords.
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 59
Summary:
Glad Mrs Darwin likes his preface, but fears she will not like his tone on religion.
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From:
Jacob Heinrich Schmick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 56
Summary:
Having sent CD his two essays outlining his theory on "A secular transposition of oceans" [see 7368], JHS now forwards to CD a book he believes establishes his theory as an "eternal law of nature" [Die neue Theorie periodische säkularer Schwankungen des Seespiegels [periodischer!?] (1872)].
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From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 38
Summary:
CD has been elected Honorary Member of Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia.
Cranial measurements connect man and apes.
He has shown differences between male and female skulls that bear on sexual selection.
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 298
Summary:
Thanks CD for MS on the routes of male bees.
His "Fertilisation of flowers" is complete [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 247
Summary:
Wants CD’s support for his application for post of Assistant Keeper in Zoological Department of British Museum.
Death of G. R. Gray.
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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: A3–5
Summary:
His chapter on machines in Erewhon has been misunderstood as laughing at the Origin. He was only trying to show how an absurd proposition can be defended with a little ingenuity, distortion, and departure from strict scientific method. Will explain in a second edition, if one is called for.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 109–10
Summary:
The die is cast on Ayrton affair. Lord Derby has called for all of the correspondence, as a result of pressure by men of science on JDH’s behalf.
Has just had a Greenland collection, which supports his views altogether; "I am ready to do fight for these with you."
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 248
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s testimonial.
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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 175–6, DAR 90: 101, DAR 178: 83, DAR 193: 22
Summary:
Has found the skull of the horned cock.
With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.
Would like the latest edition of the Origin.
Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].
Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 249
Summary:
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 112–13
Summary:
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
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From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 169: 116; Darwin Pamphlet Collection, CUL, G748
Summary:
Sends his article ["Review of Owen’s Cuvierian principle of palaeontology"].
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From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 47
Summary:
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 60
Summary:
WWR is beginning to appreciate CD’s warnings against his polemical writing.
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From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 176
Summary:
Sends sketches of expressions in two dogs.
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From:
Edmund Denman Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 190
Summary:
Reports and describes massive hailstones which fell in Petoraghur [Nepal].
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From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 160: 332
Summary:
Sends quotation from Thomas Moore’s Memoirs [ed. Lord John Russell, (1853–6)] about hereditary peculiarity in handwriting.
On colour-blindness in his family.
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 250
Summary:
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
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From:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 170
Summary:
AM [wife of Jules Michelet] offers information on crosses in cats.
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