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WCP1950

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 August [1871]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 234-235
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 270]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7893A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elliott & Fry
Date:
[2 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Dr Gene Kritsky (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for the photographs, which are "very good".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
2 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 34)
Summary:

Opinions on Descent.

Sexual selection and mimicry in Lepidoptera; sexual selection as an aid to protective imitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Theodor Piderit
Date:
2 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Abteilung Ostwestfalen-Lippe (D 72 Piderit, Theodor Nr. 8)
Summary:

Comments on TP’s work on mimicry.

Thanks for book he is sending [Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 August [1871]
Source of text:
University College London, Special Collections: Galton 7, Box 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/3/5)
Summary:

Sends enclosure for ARW to read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7898

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 202–3
Summary:

Has read Thomson’s address with "greatest interest", but JDH has said exactly what he [CD] thinks of it.

Herschel’s was a good sneer. It made him add the Raphael Madonna simile in Descent [2: 142].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
8 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26)
Summary:

Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
10 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018
Summary:

Mentions experiments on Lythrum.

Thanks for list of seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7904

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 67 (EH 88206511)
Summary:

CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
17 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 226–7)
Summary:

Asks JM whether he will publish 750 copies of a pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s review of Mivart’s Genesis of species, North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 63–103] at CD’s expense.

Has been ill so cannot say when he will finish new edition of Origin.

Asks about sales and printing of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7918G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
28 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 236)
Summary:

Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7918F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
29 Aug 1871
Source of text:
B. and L. Rootenberg (dealers) [2003]
Summary:

Sends details of trains for a clerk to travel to Down from London and back.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7927

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[31 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 9 September 1871, p. 1166
Summary:

In response to a query [from "F. W. B."], CD describes his experience with seeding Leschenaultia, which demonstrates that insect agency is required.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7919F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
31 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Herne Bay Historical Records Society (Dr Tom Bowes’s scrapbook 4 p. 71)
Summary:

Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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