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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks CD’s help in finding original woodcuts for "Voyage of a naturalist" [Journal of researches] for Reinwald.
Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.
George brought a plant from Cambridge, which he is keeping for CD.
Thanks CD for £10 to help with his law case.
The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.
Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.
Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].
Matters of etiquette concerning his certificate for the Royal Society.
Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.
Asks CD if he can reconcile a passage in Mark Hopkins’ Outline study of man [1873] with the theory of development.
Prefaces Fritz Müller’s observations on termites and stingless bees [see 9281].
Birthday greetings.
Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].
Has read GH’s proofs and, although not entirely in agreement, has no criticisms worth sending.
On the decline of population of the Hawaiian Islands, before advent of Europeans; infanticide, polyandry.
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
Has sent FM’s letter on termites to Nature ["Habits of various insects", Nature 10 (1874): 102–3].
Would be interested in observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.
On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].
Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.
Feels CD’s and Fritz Müller’s judgments on his "Anwendung" essay [see 8313] are of highest value. Mentions some of FM’s comments.
Looks forward to second English edition of Descent.