From:
Johan (Ykema) IJkema
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 167: 1
Summary:
Wishes to have Dutch publication rights for a translation of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Aug 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 195.3: 67
Summary:
Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 Aug 1872
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 269–70)
Summary:
CD has given translation right [for Expression] to Dutch publisher Joh. Ijkema.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 418
Summary:
Cost of impression of the heliotype plates [for Expression] is so high that he asks CD to consider having a set photographed onto wood and then engraved. Index [for Expression] is in hand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
23 August 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 57
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 172: 59
Summary:
Doubts reported cases of homing instinct in dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Vivian
Date:
23 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR474)
Summary:
Thanks for valuable information [about worms?]. "The more I investigate the extreme amount of work effected, the more perplexed as yet I become."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Aug 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 60.2: 86
Summary:
Informs CD that he has forwarded some oils and opium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
24 Aug 1872
Source of text:
CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9)
Summary:
CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:
24 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 700 & 700a)
Summary:
Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to the library.
If AD is interested, he will send a copy of Expression when it comes out.
Invites AD to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Bradshaw, Henry
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
25 August 1872
Source of text:
DAR 258: 447
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 419
Summary:
Defers to CD and has ordered 2000 sets of impressions from heliotype plates [for Expression] for Murray’s and 3000 sets for Appleton. Also has directed printer to send Appleton a set of stereotype plates of the work and the woodcuts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 August 1872
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 August 1872
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 August 1872
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 240-243
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 274-276]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 210
Summary:
Will call on CD next year, when he will have worked out the embryology of Amphioxus; he believes it is not primitive but a degenerate form of fish. He believes the true ancestors of vertebrates are annelids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Harmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 102
Summary:
Has entered a newspaper controversy with W. P. Lyon [Homo versus Darwin (1872)] who ascribes to CD the saying "natural selection is a kind of god that never slumbers nor sleeps". FWH does not believe CD made this statement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Harmer
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum (IPSMG: R.1924-134)
Summary:
Explains that William Penman Lyon has misquoted CD in Lyon [1871].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 227–8
Summary:
Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project