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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
24 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Thanks JO for his The Andes and the Amazon.

Is sorry he has failed to get any information on the horse’s tooth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7:5 (EH 88205930)
Summary:

Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.

Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb and 1 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 82: B80
Summary:

Forwards part of a note [by Mrs L. Agassiz] asking AG to tell CD that Agassiz has never been able to secure one of the fishes sitting on eggs.

In P.S., AG adds, "Agassiz evidently regrets having abused you in former times."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 166–7
Summary:

Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 146
Summary:

Transformism explains rudimentary organs, and teratology, which are otherwise inexplicable.

Looking forward to publication of Descent

and CD’s expected book on "Variation in nature" [see Variation 1: 4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 61
Summary:

Describes his brother Alexander’s discovery of male of Bonellia, a striking example of dimorphism. Encloses a plate with notes on his brother’s work.

The difficulty his wife, Sofya Kovalevsky, has had as a woman in being admitted to Berlin University. Kirchow [Gustav Robert Kirchhoff], at Heidelberg, has taken an interest in her.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[Mar] 1870
Source of text:
DAR 185: 58
Summary:

Responds to her suggested corrections [of Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 56
Summary:

On the expression of disagreeable surprise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Edward Cutts Birchall Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 78
Summary:

CD was good enough to send notice of his new book [Descent] for the first number of the Academy; asks for further contributions and suggestions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 171
Summary:

Experiments with Lapageria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 42–5
Summary:

Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 46, June 1988)
Summary:

Would like to call at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 167–8
Summary:

Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.

Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].

Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 183
Summary:

Will not be returning to London for a week; writes to save CD’s calling.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 171: 296
Summary:

HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
10 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 292, fol. 77)
Summary:

Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Wicksted
To:
Georgina Tollet
Date:
13 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 97
Summary:

Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
14 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884 , pp. 19–20
Summary:

Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 161: 310, DAR 161: 323/2–5
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Origin.

Encloses extensive, but incomplete, notes on expression among the insane, dealing specifically with blushing and the actions of the platysma and grief muscles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: 5–6
Summary:

Interim report on the experiments with rabbits [to test Pangenesis].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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