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DCP-LETT-8161A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Honoria Campbell; Caroline Honoria Morris
Date:
16 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Journal of researches (1860) R920 DAR)
Summary:

Is sending the requested photograph.

Mr Murray will send a copy of CD’s Journal of researches to L. S. Bouton [see 8107a].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8161

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

DCP-LETT-8165

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Requests a prescribed physic [not specified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2293

From:
George Robert Crotch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 [1872]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 260-261
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8164

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

DCP-LETT-8162

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

DCP-LETT-8163

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

DCP-LETT-8166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Dawson
Date:
19 Jan 1872
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Thanks recipient for memoir on fossil plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2280

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 January 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 234-235
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000893

From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
20 January 1872
Source of text:
MM/14/163, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-8167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:
20 Jan 1872
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

Thanks LHM for his work on consanguinity. [See 7299].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8168

From:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 221
Summary:

Describes the occurrence of earthworms and the signs of earthworm activity in the neighbourhood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8169

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1b
Summary:

Gives results of probing worm-holes with wire.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8170

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 117
Summary:

Discusses his paper on mimicry and natural selection [Land and Water 9 (1871): 321]. Believes natural selection tends to fix mimetic characters rigidly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (Add 4251: 332)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on angles of worm-holes on slopes. William Darwin is observing at Stonehenge. She is worth her weight in gold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2281

From:
Giovanni Damiani
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 January 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 236-237
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 34)
Summary:

Discusses earthworm activity observed in old ploughed fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 1)
Summary:

His rabbits have lost their patches and are grey.

Has FG seen William Crookes [spiritualist]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Discusses the problems of mimicry as related to natural selection; the general variability of colour as a character; and the conditions necessary for natural selection to fix firmly a character.

Encloses a Fritz Müller letter speculating that organisms respond to certain colours because of the prevalence of those colours in their environment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8175

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 297
Summary:

Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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