To ? [after June 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5747 |
To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
To ? [before 1 July 1868]
Summary
Sends a copy of George Bentham’s Anniversary address to the Linnean Society of London (Bentham 1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [before 1 July 1868] |
Classmark: | Deutsches Museum Archive, Munich (Pamphlet HS-Nr. 04130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6262F |
From Thomas Barbot Beale 17 December [1868 or later]
Summary
On why it is said Indian elephants do not breed in captivity; mating habits of male so violent as to require restraint.
Author: | Thomas Barbot Beale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec [1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13777 |
From William Thomas Bridges? 14 July [1868–70?]
Summary
Asks CD what prompts dogs of all kinds to roll themselves in decayed animal matter; inherited habit or immediate gratification?
Author: | William Thomas Bridges |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July [1868-70] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13782 |
From Ludwig Büchner 9 October [1868 or later]
Author: | Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig (Ludwig) Büchner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct [1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 355 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13783 |
To Peter Martin Duncan 13 April [1868?]
Summary
Promises to send coral specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Peter Martin Duncan |
Date: | 13 Apr [1868?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13802 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 March 1868]
Summary
Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816 |
From Asa Gray [25 February 1868 or later]
Summary
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2563 |
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 31 January [1868]
Summary
Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 31 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2670 |
To J. B. Baillière et ses fils 29 February [1868]
Summary
Sends stamps to the value of 1s. 1d. and asks for parcel to be sent to 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | J. B. Baillière et ses fils |
Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 698, 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415F |
To Henry Hennessy 10 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for papers.
Discusses case of the Asturian plants and HH’s view of their introduction through the agency of man. Although botanists question whether plants are thus introduced, those working closely on insular floras are admitting this view more and more.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Hennessy |
Date: | 10 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (24 June 1987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4744A |
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 8 January [1868?]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4971 |
From George Brown [before 1868]
Summary
Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.
Author: | George Thomas (George) Brown |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1868] |
Classmark: | Variation 1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5313F |
From William Blenkiron Jr [c. February 1868?]
Author: | William Blenkiron, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Feb 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5340 |
From John Scott 8 January [1868]
Summary
Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5351 |
To John Scott [after 8 January 1868]
Summary
Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5352 |
To A. D. Bartlett 16 February [1868]
Summary
Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.
Asks for rabbit specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 16 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5401 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 February [1868]
Summary
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5408 |
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Blyth, Edward | (20) |
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Wallace, A. R. | (31) |
Blyth, Edward | (23) |