To Edward Blyth 10 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4950 |
From Edward Blyth 13 [December] 1866
Summary
Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.
Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 [Dec] 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4975 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From Edward Blyth 13 [December] 1866 …
- … DAR 160: 207 Edward Blyth London, Princess Terrace, 7 13 [Dec] 1866 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on 15 December. Letter to Edward Blyth, 10 December [1866] . Blyth’s notice appeared in …
- … November 1866 (see letter to Edward Blyth, 10 December [1866] and n. 2). Blyth described …
To Henry Walter Bates 18 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5312 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 24 January 1866]
Summary
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 Jan 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4979 |
Matches: 3 hits
From W. B. Tegetmeier 12 September 1866
Summary
Has had the blocks cut as requested and forwards the proofs.
Encloses article on habits of jungle fowl.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5211 |
To Charles Lyell 22 February [1866]
Summary
Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.
Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.
Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5015 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Blyth’s belief ‘in the existence of Molina’s Pudu— or goat’ (see also Blyth 1841 , pp. 255–6, in which the relationship between the Pudu and the fossil Antilope Mariquensis is considered). The letters were those from Bunbury, Joseph Dalton Hooker , and Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (see n. 2, above, letter to Charles Lyell, 7 February [1866] …
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
