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From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872]
Source of text:
S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408
Summary:

"I am at work on the nervous mimicry of organic disease: I have some hope that, during my work, I may fall on some facts which may be of interest to you, and you may be sure that I shall send them to you."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872–4]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 151–2
Summary:

Notes some corrections for 2d ed. of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 105
Summary:

Worm action at Stonehenge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 101–2
Summary:

Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].

Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 277
Summary:

The difficulties of incorporating the reorganised chapters of the 6th English edition of Origin into JJM’s translation, which was made from the 5th edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 146
Summary:

Extract from the History of the rise and progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby herds of shorthorns by William Carr (1867).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 18
Summary:

Further details and measurements of the stones in the courtyard pavement for CD’s investigation of earthworm action.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 49)
Summary:

Sends comments on his diagram of Stonehenge. Will go to Beaulieu.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 197
Summary:

Sends his reply to Huxley’s criticisms [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 168–97].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 198
Summary:

As a man of science, StGM has no choice but to pursue what he sees as the truth. Will happily admit he has misrepresented CD if CD will disclaim the position that StGM attacks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Eduard (Eduard) von Eichwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 163: 13
Summary:

Sends paper on the coasts of Alaska.

Wishes to sell his large Russian palaeontological collection.

Wants to get in touch with American (Mr Dall), who is going to study geology of Alaskan and Aleutian coast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 199
Summary:

Agrees to close their correspondence. Defends his position against criticisms of Huxley and Chauncey Wright; assures CD of his continuing friendly feelings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henri Apatowsky
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 77
Summary:

Asks CD whether he will find a translator and publisher for a paper Dr A wrote in 1870, siding with Carl Vogt in defence of CD’s view of descent of man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan [1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 65
Summary:

Sends a map of a field showing the effect of earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 175: 9
Summary:

Battle for CD’s nomination to the French Academy continues.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John James Aubertin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 127
Summary:

A friend of JJA’s wants CD’s opinion on whether the disease porigo decalvans (hair falling out in clumps) demonstrates the link between man and dogs and has continued to evolve with man after he passed out of his "hairy-animal state".

Capt. [Richard?] Burton disagrees with CD’s notion of beauty in the abstract, and would like to meet him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 142: 55
Summary:

Has no objection to CD’s alluding to FM’s idea that sexual selection has come into play in mimetic butterflies.

Reports observations on other butterflies and on termites.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald Edward Dobbs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 187
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet [not identified] in which he applies the principle of natural selection to the working of legislative institutions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 and 20 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 286
Summary:

His father has gone to Egypt.

Tells of visit to circus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Cormack Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 321
Summary:

Has some birds which are allegedly the result of a cross between a common fowl and a guinea-fowl; describes their appearance, and will provide CD with likenesses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project