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From:
Elizabeth Blackwell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 June [1872]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 78-79
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.418); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6267-8)
Summary:
Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
2 June 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
3 June [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CW’s article responding to Mivart [see 8351] on the fixity of species is very clear.
On evolution of language, CD doubts W. D. Whitney’s claim that changes are effected by the will of man. Asks CW when a thing may properly be said to be so effected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A61–3
Summary:
Thanks CD for criticisms of his paper; explains why there is greater diversity among succeeding generations than in the first.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 165
Summary:
Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Charlotte Lloyd
Date:
5 June [1872]
Source of text:
Sherman Bull (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks her for drawing of dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
Date:
6 June [1872]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks WALM for having sent interesting publications, especially the one on relation of structure of man to lower animals,
and just a few days since, on protuberances on bird skulls. WALM’s facts on the latter subject have an important bearing on the acquisition of sexual characters. CD is pleased that the influence of sexual selection is admitted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 181
Summary:
Will need to see proofs of his drawings.
Flattered to be mentioned in introduction to Expression [p. 26].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sedgwick, Sara
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
6 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 30
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 15a
Summary:
On leaf arrangement. [Badly damaged and almost illegible.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A64–5
Summary:
Will do what he can for Lord Sackville Cecil, but he, himself, cannot get to séances when he likes. Introduction of a stranger always disturbs séances. Person most likely to help would be Lord Lindsey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 409
Summary:
Messrs Clowes have received MS of Expression. JM submits specimen pages for CD’s approval.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 178: 199
Summary:
AT is trying to publish his paper with important evidence on "the pluvial period".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C9
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of the memorial supporting Hooker’s case against A. S. Ayrton’s interference in the administration of Kew Gardens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 55
Summary:
In England to write a monograph on Anthracotherium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Leslie Sutherland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–19 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 319
Summary:
Proposes calling on CD with Prof. Wrightson of Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
9 June [1872?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.408)
Summary:
Agrees to read paper; warns he lacks mathematical knowledge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
10 June [1872]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80)
Summary:
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]
and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: D13–14
Summary:
O. N. Rood sends two copies of an amusing picture by T. F. Beard, "The young Darwinian" to AG, who forwards one to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
