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DCP-LETT-7450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (13)
Summary:

Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7448

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 186–7
Summary:

Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."

St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7449

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 28
Summary:

JBI regrets his part in appointments of his successors.

His friendship with CD and its effect on his fellow clerics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7450A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (11 June 2008)
Summary:

Is obliged for StGJM’s book [On the genesis of species (1871)].

Would not have sent him vol. 1 [of Descent] if he had known that StGJM’s book was already published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8361

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Nature
Date:
[21 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.161b
Summary:

Requests publication of a notice of the recalculation by H. J. R. Petersen of the Gaussian constants of terrestrial magnetism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

Responds to Mivart’s Genesis of species. "I complain of his incessently speaking as if I trusted exclusively to natural selection … Mivart speaks in many places as if I entirely ignored the direct action of external conditions". Answers some of Mivart’s particular criticisms. Suggests FD read the letter to Marlborough Robert Pryor, as Pryor will never be able to read it himself.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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