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DCP-LETT-7605G

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22)
Summary:

Possible quotations about shame for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7526

From:
John James Aubertin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 125
Summary:

Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;

reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7528

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 68
Summary:

Parallel between CD’s account of morality [in Descent], of social instinct preceding selfishness, and Henry Maine’s account of notions of property of a community preceding individual property [in Ancient law (1861)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 437
Summary:

Discusses new edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946)
Summary:

Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.

Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947)
Summary:

Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7527

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C7
Summary:

JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 [Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14a)
Summary:

Was aware of Maine’s view but never thought of its extension to morals. Cannot avoid thinking that personal property like flint tools must have "strictly belonged to individuals as much as a bone to a dog".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7532

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
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DCP-LETT-7533

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:
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DCP-LETT-7531

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

DCP-LETT-7470

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
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DCP-LETT-7561

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7542

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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DCP-LETT-7539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 25
Summary:

Invites him to visit.

Miss Butler is dead.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7536

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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DCP-LETT-7541

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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DCP-LETT-7534

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878]
Summary:

Comments on Descent.

EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7538

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7540

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
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