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DCP-LETT-7103

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 48
Summary:

Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.

He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.

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FL-1105

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
12 [February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-7105

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 173
Summary:

Louis Agassiz’s ill health means AG will not get an answer to CD’s query from him. Suggests CD ask Agassiz’s son, Alexander.

Has no details about the origin of the cat-like behaviour of his dog.

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DCP-LETT-7104

From:
Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: 162–3
Summary:

About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.

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DCP-LETT-7106

From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 228
Summary:

Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].

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DCP-LETT-7107

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 190
Summary:

Hopes CD is coping with the very hard winter.

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DCP-LETT-6617

From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 142
Summary:

Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.

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DCP-LETT-7109

From:
William Swale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 324
Summary:

Sends CD some notes on the habits of the "American Blight Bird" in New Zealand.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7110

From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 21 (EH 88206073)
Summary:

Notes the differences in haemoglobin between species; this proves, to WP, that natural selection does not act only on morphological development.

Remarks on the differences and similarities in the effects of prussic acid on different groups of animals.

Questions CD on his early education and influences.

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FL-0620

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
17 [February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-1106

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
17 February 1870
Source of text:
DAR 245: 33a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-7039F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36)
Summary:

Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7114

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 60
Summary:

Moritz Wagner is going to attack selection theory in his new book on his travels in America [Naturwissenschaftliche Reisen im tropischen Amerika (1870)].

K. G. Semper may attack CD’s theory of coral islands.

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FL-0713

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
21 February [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 74
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1270

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[21 February 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2243
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 164–6
Summary:

Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.

A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.

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FL-1107

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
22 [February] 1870
Source of text:
DAR 245: 34
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1108

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
23 February 1870
Source of text:
DAR 245: 35
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1317

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[c. 25 February 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 602
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7117

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7:5 (EH 88205930)
Summary:

Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.

Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.

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