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DCP-LETT-8088F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42)
Summary:

Summarises her theory about expression in music.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-12-01b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Lange
Date:
1 December 1871
Source of text:
Lange Papers, Botanisk Centralbibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-12-01c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
1 December 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 27-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-12-01a

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1125

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 December [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1133

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[December 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 251
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-71-12-01

From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 December 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M99.8, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8134

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

Sends MS of section on voice as a means of expression [Expression, pp. 86–93]. CD is dissatisfied with it – wishes he could avoid the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8129

From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 121–7
Summary:

Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
2 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 35
Summary:

Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.

Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8090

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A39
Summary:

The rabbits arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8093

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Augustus Eisen
Date:
3 Dec 1871
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers)
Summary:

Thanks GAE for memoir on earthworms [Bidrag till Skandinaviens Oligochaetfauna (1871)]. CD by chance is just now observing "one little point in their habits". Will be happy to learn something about the places frequented by the various species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-12-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 December 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8092

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
3 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:

Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8091

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 260
Summary:

Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP7007

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Anton Felix Dohrn
Date:
3 December 1871
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève, Département des manuscrits et des archives privées: D.O. autogr. 49/44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8094

From:
Ulrich Kirchenpauer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 201: 19
Summary:

Wishes to have CD’s autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8094A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Date:
4 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Museo Nacional de Etnología, Madrid (FD4472)
Summary:

Thanks for the letter, photograph, and kind words about CD’s scientific work. [See 8088.]

CTEvS’s view of pseudova is new to CD;

he has not yet received the recent work on parthenogenesis

though he did receive the memoir on Polistes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 82–83)
Summary:

Sends sheets [of the 6th ed. of Origin].

Thanks JVC for his letter about the sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8098

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 149
Summary:

Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.

Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.

CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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