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DCP-LETT-7471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 188–9
Summary:

Returns pamphlets.

B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?

Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.

Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.

The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7473

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 45
Summary:

Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7472

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 93
Summary:

Has left Paris because of the war.

J. J. Moulinié and Carl Vogt are at work on Descent, which CR plans to publish in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7474

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 385
Summary:

Encloses a letter [missing] from C. Reinwald, publisher of the French edition of Descent [1872].

Vincenzi [of Unione, Turin – publisher of Italian translation] has not yet paid the account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8198

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 65
Summary:

Information [for CD] on old, sloping, ridged fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7475

From:
William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 130
Summary:

On irritation of cutaneous nerves exciting responses in unconnected skin muscles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86)
Summary:

Sends questions on expressions of Laura Bridgman.

Has finished Descent. Believes that parts, like that on moral sense, will aggravate AG.

Working on an essay on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7476F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 43)
Summary:

Does shut eyes when scratching himself. Will ask Langstaff about muscles used when playing flute. Is back at work but hobbling around.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 333
Summary:

Will send copy of Descent.

Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?

Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.

Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].

Pointed ears in the insane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7477

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 125
Summary:

The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Fenwick
Date:
8 Feb [1871-82]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31)
Summary:

Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7478A

From:
Felice Finzi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 118
Summary:

Sends a publication to Darwin.

Asks for a portrait.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8205

From:
Robert Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
9 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 66, 67, DAR 161: 226
Summary:

Encloses letters from two owners [W. Corbett and C. Randell] of large farms concerning fields with ridges and furrows in the direction of the slope. All local men agree the ridges do not change shape.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 278
Summary:

Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7479

From:
Thomas Meehan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 108
Summary:

Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].

TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31)
Summary:

Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
14 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 279
Summary:

Discusses presentation copies [of Descent]. Dallas returned proofs of index on Friday. Asks for John Stuart Mill’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
15 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 23–24)
Summary:

Hopes German edition [of Descent] has not yet been printed because he has fallen into a most serious blunder [about sexual selection never acting on the young] on pp. 297–9 of vol. 1.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7483

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 386
Summary:

Printing of Descent will be done this day. Cannot publish until next week.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7484

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 312
Summary:

Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.

CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.

Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.

Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.

Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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