From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.302
Summary:
Thanks for his Easter offering. Sends a little book which he may find useful.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 172: 57
Summary:
Objects to the negative reviews of Descent, notably in the Athenæum and the Times.
The exceptions are the Academy, Nature, and his own, in the Field [37 (1871): 210].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.363
Summary:
Comments on several aspects of poetry; further comments on French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9 & 1871-3-22].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.199
Summary:
Hopes that he found the report of the Porcupine Expedition worth his consideration. Sends a paper in which he examines the question of the Gulf Stream.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Leland Balch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 15 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 20
Summary:
CD’s photographs have been sent to [J. W. A.] McDonald, the sculptor, who will make a marble bust for the Liberal Club of New York and a bronze or plaster one for sale; CD will receive a copy. CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Club, and
CB asks whether he could give them a few words of advice on a practical method of biological study for beginners.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 316, 195.1: 49
Summary:
Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.
Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Summary:
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 136
Summary:
Answers to questions about expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Newenham Hoare
Date:
16 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for the information about the passages in Xenophon and Horace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
16 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.554-557, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
16 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.570-571, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to his wife Frances Hooker nee Henslow about his recent travels in Morocco. He describes the celebrations of the last day of Passover, which he spent with a Jewish family in Tetuan. He describes the journey by mule across flat plains from Tetuan to Ceuta & notes that the vegetation included Tamarix Africana, mulberry & Juniperus phoenicea. He describes the view approaching Ceuta, the agriculture around the Spanish town, the people he observed including Riffians, & the character of the fortified town. They stayed at the Fonda Italiana then went by Felucca to Algericas where they botanised in the hills & observed the differences in vegetation with the opposite coast. The Algericas vegetation included cork oak trees festooned with the fern Davalia canariensis, undergrowth of bracken, brambles, Genista, Ulex, Cistus & heaths as in Morocco. Algerica plants not found in Morocco were Rhododendron ponticum, Erica ciliaris & Sibthorpia europeana [europaea], several grasses & a Helianthemum. The flora was more advanced than in the Marrakech area, the habitat being drier, & the scenery prettier. They travelled on to Gibraltar, where presently stuck waiting for a boat to Tangiers, all their luggage having gone ahead to Tangier. Whilst waiting visited the Governor of Gibraltar, Sir William Williams of Kars, who had been informed of their travels by the Secretary of War, Mr Cardwell. The Governor's house is a new building on the site of an old convent with some fine trees: Norfolk Island Pine, Date Palm & Dracaena draco or 'Dragon's blood tree'. In the hills the vegetation included: Cerastium gibraltaricum, Linaria tristis, Phytolacca trees. They stayed at Fonda Españole near to the offices of the hospitable Mr Cowell. Under date Apr 18 he continues; they arrived late at Tangier & had to pay to have the gates opened. They met with [George] Maw who had travelled South & found the beautiful Iris Sir John Hay Drummond Hay made them aware of.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 331
Summary:
Raises two points on CD’s view, in Descent [2: 229], on how aquatic birds acquire white plumage.
Also remarks on effect of will in certain human modifications,
on colour-blindness in his children,
and on ability to move his ears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:
17 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (Kryptonachlass of von Carneri)
Summary:
Thanks BvC for the present of his book, Sittlichkeit und Darwinismus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 229
Summary:
Comments on Descent.
Reports a case of protective coloration of bugs on Tilia
and observations on frogs fighting [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 281, 350].
Encloses drawings of chicken feet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin Ray Lankester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 39–40
Summary:
Has had Hinrich Nitsche’s pointed ear photographed. Nitsche also has photographed the ear of a foetal orang. [See Descent 1: 21–3.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 71–2
Summary:
Gratified that CD approves his analysis of CD’s views of moral sense. Does not think there is a fundamental difference between J. S. Mill (Utilitarianism [1863], p. 45) and CD.
His view of those who object to CD’s "new doctrine of the moral sense".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 109–10
Summary:
On Hottentots’ blushing.
Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 and 18 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 187
Summary:
Man’s spiritual life separates him from other animals.
Why are moths attracted, often fatally, to lights?
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
18 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39
Summary:
Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."
Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hinrich Nitsche
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 41–2, 45–6, 67
Summary:
Sends CD photographs of his atavistic ears and ears of a foetal orang in the collection of the Zoological Museum, Leipzig.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
