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To Charles Lyell   22 January [1865]

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Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.

Agrees with CL on beauty.

Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].

CD’s illness.

CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  22 Jan [1865]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4752

From Henry Denny   23 January 1865

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Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].

Author:  Henry Denny
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Jan 1865
Classmark:  DAR 80: B150–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4753

From J. D. Hooker   [26 January 1865]

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John Scott has arrived in Calcutta and has been given an appointment by Thomas Anderson.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Jan 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4754

To John Edward Gray   27 January [1865]

Summary

Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].

Mentions JEG’s illness.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  27 Jan [1865]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.305)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4755

From Henry Walter Bates   28 January 1865

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Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.

HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].

He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].

Author:  Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Jan 1865
Classmark:  DAR 160: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4756

To Henry Denny   28 January [1865]

Summary

Returns [Andrew] Murray’s paper;

especially values HD’s note that the same species of lice infect the different varieties of fowl, pigeon, and dog. Further queries about the relationship of the same species of pediculi to different domestic varieties.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Denny
Date:  28 Jan [1865]
Classmark:  Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4756F

To A. R. Wallace   29 January [1865]

Summary

Commends ARW’s papers on parrots

and on the theory of geographical distribution [see 4750].

Wild pigs in Aru Islands must have been introduced and later ran wild. Does ARW have an opinion on the subject?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  29 Jan [1865]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 49)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4757

To Abraham Dee Bartlett   30 January [1865]

Summary

Orders that one of CD’s Porto Santo rabbits be killed and sent to him.

Asks whether ADB has got young from mating these with females of other breeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:  30 Jan [1865]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Joseph Bradley Murray Collection (MS 363) Box 1, folder 4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4758

From A. R. Wallace   31 January [1865]

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Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.

Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Jan [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 106: B22–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4759

To A. R. Wallace   1 February [1865]

Summary

Exchange of photographs.

Aru pigs present perplexing case, whether wild or domesticated.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  1 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 53)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4760

To J. D. Hooker   2 February [1865]

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Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.

His own health has been especially bad this last week.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  2 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 259
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4762

To [Robertson Munro?]   3 February [1865 or 1866?]

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Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.

Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robertson Munro
Date:  3 Feb [1865-6]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4763

To Ray Society   [14–18 January 1865]

Summary

"Read a letter from Mr Darwin expressing his regret that the state of his health would not permit of his writing an Introductory Chapter to the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ray Society
Date:  [14–18 Jan 1865]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 107r: Minute 1146, 3d February 1865)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4764

From J. D. Hooker   3 February 1865

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Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.

CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Feb 1865
Classmark:  DAR 102: 8–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4765

To Max Ernst Wichura   3 February [1865]

Summary

He has finished MEW’s work on hybrid willows [Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency of hybrid willows is new to CD, and he finds the explanation of their numbers in certain locations ingenious.

Comments on the criticism of Gärtner’s view of reversion

and the differences between MEW and Naudin.

CD now has doubts regarding his own view that hybrids are sterile from not being perfectly accommodated to their conditions of life.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Max Ernst Wichura
Date:  3 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  Autographia (dealers) (1986)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4765A

From Maxwell Tylden Masters   7 February 1865

Summary

MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.

Author:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Feb 1865
Classmark:  DAR 171: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4766

To Richard Kippist   8 February 1865

Summary

Requests all parts of Transactions due him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Kippist
Date:  8 Feb 1865
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4767

To A. D. Bartlett   9 February [1865]

Summary

Inquires about body of Porto Santo rabbit which has not arrived.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:  9 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4768

To J. D. Hooker   9 February [1865]

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Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.

His health has been wretched.

Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 260
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4769

From August Schleicher   9 February 1865

Summary

Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];

announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.

Author:  August Schleicher
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Feb 1865
Classmark:  DAR 177: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4770
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