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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[March 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 97
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114
Summary:

On colours and breeding of rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 58
Summary:

P.S. Information on earthworm activity on chalk downs, including two rough sketches for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[after 21 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 137–8
Summary:

Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 103
Summary:

David Forbes thinks WED’s chalk samples have been penetrated by surface mud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 104
Summary:

Sends dirt residue of chalk samples for David Forbes to examine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[9 Mar 1872 or later]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 274–5)
Summary:

CD is vexed to hear that some of his friends and some booksellers complain of the type of the new [6th] edition of Origin. CD, whose eyesight is not good, had no trouble reading proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 163: 33
Summary:

AE, philosophy professor, is disposed to accept natural selection, but argues that it lacks direction. Suggests that direction would be given if one assumed the appearance of multiple advantageous traits in a single individual. Cites Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Claude Bernard, and Carl Vogt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 57
Summary:

Thanks CD for Origin, 6th ed.

Has declined chair at Strasbourg.

Describes research on calcareous sponges.

Criticises Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 149
Summary:

Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B109–110
Summary:

Response to 6th ed. of Origin. CD’s answer to Mivart on initial stages of modifications is complete; the "eye and ear objection" is not handled so satisfactorily.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
4 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/43)
Summary:

Thanks for facts about ducks.

Thinks TCE will be converted to principle of evolution if he continues testing facts for and against it. Natural selection is another question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1872
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913, p. 119
Summary:

Thanks for new [6th] edition of Origin.

Is working on Echini.

The more material he gets the less easy it is to diagnose a genus or species. Has little doubt that "classification is nothing but the most arbitrary convenient tool, depending upon the material at our command at a special time".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 179
Summary:

A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 31
Summary:

Down parish and family matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 408
Summary:

JM arranges to pay CD for the latest issue of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 119
Summary:

Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.

CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 55
Summary:

Has just finished his work [? The martyrdom of man (1872)]. The new points are: (1) Negroes have whiskers; (2) their music is sometimes agreeable; (3) the Kaffirs are Negroes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (H.I.N. 39418)
Summary:

Offers to send German editions of his works when he return home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 56
Summary:

Plans for visit to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project