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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 228
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 229
Summary:

Intends to answer Sir A. Grant’s article if CD does not. [A. Grant, "Philosophy and Mr Darwin", Contemp. Rev. 17 (1871): 274–81; H. Spencer, "Mental evolution", Contemp. Rev. 17 (1871): 461–2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 February 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 357-358
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 230
Summary:

HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 231
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression. Disagrees with his views on the genesis of melody; HS gives some reasons for believing it to originate in the natural cadences of emotional speech.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 232
Summary:

Wants to use CD’s support to put pressure on Michael Foster to enable Huxley to take an immediate holiday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1? April 1874
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 359
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 233
Summary:

Wishes to know where, in his works, CD refers to some particular behaviour in dogs.

Mentions the sensitivity of cirripedes to passing shadows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 234
Summary:

Thanks CD for his new volume [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 November 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 361
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project