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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 411
Summary:

Answers CD’s questions on arrangements for forthcoming publication of Expression – including cost of stereotypes, woodcuts, and photo reproductions for foreign translations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 90
Summary:

Statement of sales of U. S. editions of Origin and Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
1 August 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 48
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
1 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/11)
Summary:

George Snow, the carrier, now leaves Nag’s Head on Thursday mornings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
1 Aug 1872
Source of text:
205, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 174: 2
Summary:

CD’s letter inviting him to visit did not reach him till he returned home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Aug 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 54
Summary:

Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
3 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 86–87)
Summary:

Has sent sheets of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 August [1872]
Source of text:
  • Waddingtons Auction House (auction)
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 96: 147
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 272-273]
Summary:

Encloses a letter to Nature correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
3 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Nature , 8 August 1872, p. 279
Summary:

Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.

Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Waddington Auction (dealers) (July 1998)
Summary:

Encloses a letter to Nature [see 8448] correcting Dr Bree, who has accused ARW of "blundering". ARW should tear up CD’s letter if he does not like it or plans to reply himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
4 Aug 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 258–9)
Summary:

Asks whether he can tell Appleton that Murray will supply clichés and stereotypes [for Expression] at only a small profit. Will make same offer to other foreign editors. Prefers that W. S. Dallas prepare the index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Oswald Heer
Date:
4 Aug [1872-4]
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2)
Summary:

Thanks OH for two memoirs on the fossil flora of Bear Island and Spitzbergen [K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 8 (1869) no. 7; 9 (1870) no. 5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 225–6
Summary:

CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.

The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 106: B111–12
Summary:

Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].

Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
4 August 1872
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [p. 271]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 August 1872
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B111-112
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 239
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 273-274]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles French
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 August 1872
Source of text:
H72/16703, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 412
Summary:

Sends Murray’s cheque for £315 for the last issue of Descent.

Details regarding foreign editions of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Thomas Gulick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 240
Summary:

Sends synopsis of his paper "On diversity of evolution" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 11 (1873): 496–505] in which he attempts to show some of the means, other than natural selection, of modification of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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