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From:
Alpheus Hyatt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late] Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 99: 48–55
Summary:

No need to apologise for not quoting AH’s paper on acceleration and retardation.

Agassiz introduced AH to ammonites and entrusted collection to him. Has followed developmental history of each species and placed them within geological formations. Found evolutionary history of species recapitulated only to a degree in individual development. Stages frequently skipped. Explains why young of later animals are like adults that preceded them. Retardation entirely idea of Edward Drinker Cope. Sends paper to explain it. Acceleration can explain degraded forms. Often like youthful stage with which series began. Often resemble old age of earlier series. Regularity of these series incompatible with natural selection. How can selection account for degraded final stages or for predictability of development? Franz Hilgendorf’s Paludinae from Steinheim lake show same parallelism in development. May be possible to reconcile this with selection. But Trochiformis begins to show degradation in beds where it is most numerous and has largest individuals, i.e., where selection seems to be favouring it. Will work on Steinheim shells this winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 146: 13
Summary:

Obliged for letter on worm-castings. Asks GK to observe them in southern Europe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Grant
Date:
1 November 1872
Source of text:
A345 Royal Park Zoological Society letter & minute book, p.55, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
1 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 22
Summary:

Sends a copy of Expression

and speaks fondly of his memories of Woodhouse and the Owen family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
Date:
[1 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 48
Summary:

Sends a copy of Expression and his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
2 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for AdeC’s Histoire des sciences [1873].

Sends a copy of Expression.

His health keeps him weak; he dreads grappling with the fearful subject of variation [in nature]

so he is working up some observations in botanical physiology to publish with his old papers on climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 51)
Summary:

Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 85
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Expression.

Reminiscences of their youth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ludwig Heinrich Jeitteles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 184: 7
Summary:

Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Smith Craig
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 112
Summary:

A number of students wish to nominate CD as Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen and JSC inquires whether CD’s state of health would prevent his standing as a candidate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 November 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 66-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
John Hampden
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 November 1872
Source of text:
Hampden, J. ([1872?]). In: To A. R. Wallace, Esq., Professor, F.R.G.S., &c . London: Privately published. [pp. 1-2]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Auguste Benjamin Hippolyte (Auguste) Houzeau de Lehaie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 274
Summary:

Has received Expression and will forward it to his brother [Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 83
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion of John Denny’s idea that males have prepotent transmission power in plants. A. J. F. Wegmann says the females are prepotent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 65
Summary:

Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sarah Harriet Mostyn Owen; Sarah Harriet Williams; Sarah Harriet Haliburton
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 23
Summary:

Thanks SH for news of her family. Would like her to visit Down in the spring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 254
Summary:

Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Maudsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 94
Summary:

Thanks for Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 428
Summary:

Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
6 November 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.285-286, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project