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WCP1950

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 August [1871]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 234-235
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 270]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-1180

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[August 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 299
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-7891

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 240
Summary:

John Lubbock’s paper [? "Remarks on stone implements from western Africa", Rep. BAAS 40 (1870): 154–5] opposes some of his best sustained conclusions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7891F

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 240/1
Summary:

Sends abstract of a paper on hybridity read by Edward Moore to a natural history club in Rochester, NY. Argues the necessity of hybridity on CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7890

From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 165
Summary:

Discusses revising his North American Review article [see 7829] for publication as a pamphlet in England.

Plans to publish a further article on phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7893A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elliott & Fry
Date:
[2 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for the photographs, which are "very good".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
2 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 34)
Summary:

Opinions on Descent.

Sexual selection and mimicry in Lepidoptera; sexual selection as an aid to protective imitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Theodor Piderit
Date:
2 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Abteilung Ostwestfalen-Lippe (D 72 Piderit, Theodor Nr. 8)
Summary:

Comments on TP’s work on mimicry.

Thanks for book he is sending [Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7894

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 176
Summary:

AG hopes to meet CD’s sons, who are visiting America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 August [1871]
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 7, Box 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-08-04a

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 August 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/3/5)
Summary:

Sends enclosure for ARW to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7897

From:
Colbert Austin Canfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 39
Summary:

Sends a series of factual corrections to Variation and Descent: barking of coyotes and colour of wild American horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7896

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 73–77
Summary:

Lengthy discussion of William Thomson’s address [BAAS, Edinburgh 1871].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7901

From:
Michele Lessona
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 193
Summary:

On the malar bone [see Descent 1: 124].

Has verified hermaphroditism of Serranus and other fishes as normal [see Descent 1: 208].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7898

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 202–3
Summary:

Has read Thomson’s address with "greatest interest", but JDH has said exactly what he [CD] thinks of it.

Herschel’s was a good sneer. It made him add the Raphael Madonna simile in Descent [2: 142].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7899

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 85–6
Summary:

Sends notes on Fritz Müller’s letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4091

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 August 1871
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 89: 85-88
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26)
Summary:

Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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