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DCP-LETT-8162

From:
Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 and 20 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 286
Summary:

His father has gone to Egypt.

Tells of visit to circus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8163

From:
Peter Cormack Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 321
Summary:

Has some birds which are allegedly the result of a cross between a common fowl and a guinea-fowl; describes their appearance, and will provide CD with likenesses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Dawson
Date:
19 Jan 1872
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks recipient for memoir on fossil plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
20 Jan 1872
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

Thanks LHM for his work on consanguinity. [See 7299].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8168

From:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 221
Summary:

Describes the occurrence of earthworms and the signs of earthworm activity in the neighbourhood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8169

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1b
Summary:

Gives results of probing worm-holes with wire.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8170

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 117
Summary:

Discusses his paper on mimicry and natural selection [Land and Water 9 (1871): 321]. Believes natural selection tends to fix mimetic characters rigidly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 34)
Summary:

Discusses earthworm activity observed in old ploughed fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1)
Summary:

His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.

Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Discusses the problems of mimicry as related to natural selection; the general variability of colour as a character; and the conditions necessary for natural selection to fix firmly a character.

Encloses a Fritz Müller letter speculating that organisms respond to certain colours because of the prevalence of those colours in their environment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8175

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 297
Summary:

Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8176

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 103–4
Summary:

William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.

Other family news.

No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.

Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8177

From:
Thomas Stanley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 246
Summary:

Wants references to the work of Julius von Haast and James Hector on New Zealand glaciers, which CD mentions in the Origin [6th ed., p. 335].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
24 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5338

From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 265
Summary:

Gives lengthy details from his medical experience on how structural and other changes in the parts of the eye are related to lacrimation.

Mentions belief in CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Jan 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 218–19
Summary:

Heartily glad about Willy.

Has never had Zizania.

Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.

What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8180

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 118
Summary:

Discusses the roles of natural and sexual selection in producing mimicry, and the problem of explaining the cause of the first mimetic variation; considers the ideas of A. R. Wallace and Fritz Müller on this problem.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8182

From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 146
Summary:

Reminisces on the evening he, B. J. Sulivan, and J. C. Wickham from the Beagle spent with CD, nearly ten years ago.

Hopes the mission at Tierra del Fuego will not "improve" the people to extinction.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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