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DCP-LETT-8554

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 85
Summary:

Corrects CD’s spelling of the name of a statue: the Arrotino (spelled "Arretino" by CD) [see Expression, p. 184, on grief-muscles].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8555

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 424
Summary:

D. Appleton has been sent 3000 sets of plates [for Expression]. Hopes to publish [Expression] on 12 Nov.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
[after 11 Oct 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 284
Summary:

Discusses printing of Expression.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8556

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 58
Summary:

Much experiment and observation needed before spontaneous generation will be empirically advanced, but philosophically the matter is clear.

Thinks Ludwig Rütimeyer has attacked EH to satisfy pious opinion in Basel.

Will soon be finished with his monograph Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8557

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18)
Summary:

THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.

Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.

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FL-1304

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[14 October 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 571
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8558

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 64
Summary:

Huxley will be asked to review Expression in Pall Mall Gazette.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8559

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
15 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 94–95)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for correcting his blunder on spelling of "Arrotino" [see Expression, p. 184]. "No Frenchman has a greater tendency to spell all proper names wrongly than I have."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8560

From:
William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 47
Summary:

WM converted to belief in evolution by experience of museum work.

Describes protective coloration of coots’ eggs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8561

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
16 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 291)
Summary:

Wants to make a present to her on the move to a new house.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8563

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 73
Summary:

Suggests possible experiments with Pisum and Lathyrus.

Has read the article CD spoke of; the doctrine of inherited mental and corporeal qualities is most fertile.

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DCP-LETT-8562

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 285
Summary:

Appreciation of the "marriage gift"; their affection for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8564A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emil Lehmann
Date:
18 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 37
Summary:

CD would have been honoured to have EL translate forthcoming work [Expression], but J. V. Carus is already half way through this task.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8564

From:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 88: 123–4
Summary:

Asks permission to translate Expression into German. Will superintend an Italian translation.

Informs CD of hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].

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DCP-LETT-8565

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 124–5
Summary:

On his mother’s death.

Contributor:
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WCP2291

From:
Benjamin Pickman Mann
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 October 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 257
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8564F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
[c. 1 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Crerar Manuscript 131)
Summary:

Will let CIFM know [probably about John Murray’s terms for an Italian translation of Expression].

Thanks for information about hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].

Contributor:
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WCP1957

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 October [1872]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 247-248
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 279]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-1427

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[20 October 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1264
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Remarks about an enclosed specimen,

and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].

ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].

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