From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 437
Summary:
Discusses new edition of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946)
Summary:
Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.
Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947)
Summary:
Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 [Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14a)
Summary:
Was aware of Maine’s view but never thought of its extension to morals. Cannot avoid thinking that personal property like flint tools must have "strictly belonged to individuals as much as a bone to a dog".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 25
Summary:
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878]
Summary:
Comments on Descent.
EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 24, 54–5
Summary:
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Wolf
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Palmer 1895, p. 193
Summary:
Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Du Cane Godman
Date:
4 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.363)
Summary:
Has forwarded FDuCG’s book [Natural history of the Azores (1870)] to Dr Hartlaub.
Asks about eyes of camel when the animal is uttering a loud sound.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
4 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society Paper SP1250)
Summary:
Thinks J. P. M. Weale’s papers all require great condensation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
5 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 f. 19)
Summary:
Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904)
Summary:
Will write again to Tyndall about odours.
Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].
Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948)
Summary:
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 222–3)
Summary:
Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.
Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;
contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871
Source of text:
Nicols 1883 , p. 74
Summary:
The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Summary:
Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 64–6
Summary:
Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
about 10 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 103–8
Summary:
Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Currey
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society paper SP1250)
Summary:
Gives his opinion on four papers by J. P. M. Weale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
