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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Sends list of journals to be sent review copies of Descent. If CD wants to add others, they will be included. Printing of 2500 copies ordered; retail price 24s.
Encloses a letter [missing] from C. Reinwald, publisher of the French edition of Descent [1872].
Vincenzi [of Unione, Turin – publisher of Italian translation] has not yet paid the account.
Printing of Descent will be done this day. Cannot publish until next week.
Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.
Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.
The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.
Concerned with photographic processes for illustrations [for Expression].
RC is sure Murray would not object to printing the pamphlet [C. Wright’s Darwinism: being an examination of Mr. St. G. J. Mivart’s "Genesis of species"].
After a lull in sales of Descent, a fresh demand warrants keeping type set up. Has CD seen the review of Descent in the Guardian?
Will give printer orders to set up first six chapters of Origin [6th ed.]. Murray thinks a glossary [of scientific terms] might be advisable, if not longer than ten pages. Will offer W. S. Dallas £10 for it.
Suggests CD have Origin [6th ed.] stereotyped.
Will sell out remaining copies of Descent at forthcoming trade sale, print off 500 or 1000 more, and then have the type distributed.
14 copies of C. Wright’s pamphlet have been sold.
Almost 600 copies of Descent sold at trade sale, with 120 left in stock. Suggests printing another 1000 to give more time for correcting the work for 2d edition.
Thanks for contribution to fund for his brother’s widow.
Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.
CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.
Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.
Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.
Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
Sends photographs of general paralytics. Expressions of exaltation of [these?] patients do not come out well in the photographs.
Is experimenting with idiots under his care. Has been unable to produce a blush in any one of them.
Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.
Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.
Sends CD a volume of West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports [1 (1871)], which contains some observations on blushing.
Refused to write a treatise on geological time.
His paper on W. B. Carpenter’s theory of ocean currents is appearing soon.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.
Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.
Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].
Gives possible explanation for retention of horns throughout the winter by female reindeer.
Work on Atlantis.
