From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 136
Summary:
Explains some proof-correcting symbols to be used by WED [on Origin, 6th ed. proofs?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
November 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 15-16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1871?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.623)
Summary:
Thanks for note concerning JP’s new book [Geology of Oxford (1871)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 3
Summary:
For CD’s approval, cites passage from CD note he wants to quote in a lecture;
pleads for CD’s moral support for FEA’s work in free-thought movement.
Sends $50 [dollars or pounds!?] because he wants CD to become regular contributor to Index.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 404
Summary:
Suggests CD have Origin [6th ed.] stereotyped.
Will sell out remaining copies of Descent at forthcoming trade sale, print off 500 or 1000 more, and then have the type distributed.
14 copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Georges-Louis Leblois
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 November 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 226-227
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
1 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:
He appreciates the two specimens [skins of Mergenetta and Aix sponsa], especially the Mergenetta, which as far as sifting is concerned, is a capital link between the shoveller and the common duck. Arrangements for their return.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:
JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.
JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
2 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 340
Summary:
Asks JC-B to observe whether platysma muscle contracts during rigor or shivering fit.
Is just recommencing his essay on expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 96–7
Summary:
Henry Holland is taking an active part in helping JDH in the Ayrton affair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.502)
Summary:
Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.
Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
3 November [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 [Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 133
Summary:
Is sending some proofs for correction by WED [6th ed. of Origin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 40)
Summary:
Apologises for not working very quickly on proofs. Comments on Huxley’s theological critique of Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 184: 16
Summary:
Wishes to translate Expression into Dutch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George James Allman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 53
Summary:
Learned of CD’s interest in new facts bearing on origins of specific forms and sends proof sheets of his Monograph on tubularian hydroids [1871–2] stating his views on the descent of existing hydroids from ancient graptolites.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 238–9)
Summary:
Agrees to stereotyping Origin [6th ed.].
Asks that 500 or 1000 more copies of Descent be printed. Will make no corrections except the number of thousands on title page. Would like to revise [Descent] if it goes on selling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 134
Summary:
Thanks WED for a correction [to proofs of Origin, 6th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 115)
Summary:
Will write to de Chaumont to ask whether anyone at Netley is able to observe shivering fits. Has not got H. Spencer essays.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Wilhelm Spengel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 236
Summary:
Sends CD additions to his bibliographical list [missing].
Reports observations indicating that chimpanzees show compassion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project