To Fritz Müller 8 September [1869]
Summary
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6881 |
To Albert Günther 21 September 1869
Summary
Sends a list of queries for AG.
Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library; DAR 82: B14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6903 |
From Fritz Müller 12 January 1869
Summary
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B34–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6549 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 56 mm —. Novbr. 30. Fruits ripe; the pod (a) 32 mm long, with 10 seeds, 4 of which are …
- … a distinct plant. Novbr. 30 . Germen of (a) not increased, (b) 10 mm , (c) 27 mm long. …
- … 10 mm , that of (b) 16 mm long Novbr. 27 . Germen of (a) 40 mm , of (b) 64 mm , of (c) 32 mm long. The extremity of the germen (c) putrifying. Novbr. 30 . …
To A. R. Wallace 22 March [1869]
Summary
Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6677 |
To Mary Somerville 21 January [1869]
Summary
Thanks for copy of MS’s book [On molecular and microscopic science, (1869)]. Part on orchids is an excellent summary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Fairfax; Mary Greig; Mary Somerville |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6563 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1869
Summary
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 18–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6800 |
From C. F. Claus 24 January 1869
Summary
Sends a paper on reproductive modes of Leptodera ["Organisation und Fortpflanzen von Leptodera", Schr. Ges. Beförd. Naturw. Marburg (1869)].
Criticises Ernst Haeckel’s work as too unripe and enthusiastic.
Asks CD for some specimens of cirripedes in pupal stage for a work in progress.
| Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6575 |
From Adolph Reuter 18 July 1869
Summary
Sends notes on lack of variation in seedlings of trees and shrubs
and on climbers changing their character with age.
| Author: | Adolf Reuter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6836 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 30 exemplars, looking like the mother-plant, all the other seedlings were common ashs. — 9. From Quercus pedunculata var. pyramidalis I did saw also often the glans and mostly the seedlings has been again fine looking pyramidal trees, the rest allways more or less slightly or quite complete common Oaks. 10. …
From James Rait to George Cupples 20 July 1869
Summary
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.
| Author: | James Rait |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 20 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: 70–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6838F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 1868— 5 " — 7 " — 12 1869— 6 " — 6 " — 12 Total in 6 years 33 bulls — 32 Heifers — 65 Calves Calves Never lost a calf. ” III. David Gibb Esq. Bridge of Dye, Kincardineshire, states “I have 5 bull & 11 heifer calves this year, and last year I had equal numbers, and the year before that 9 bull and 8 heifer calves. As to sheep I have generally more females than males. Exact numbers I cannot state but say 30 …
From J. J. Weir [1–13] May 1869
Summary
South Down sheep: variability in colouring and patterning of lambs compared with constancy of adult coat.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1–13] May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6723 |
From Walter Elliot 7 September 1869
Summary
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6880 |
From William Bowman 3 September [1869]
Summary
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6877 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 September [1869] . The Tuesday after 3 September 1869 was 7 September. CD had asked Bowman about a passage in Charles Bell’s Anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected with the fine arts ( Bell 1844 ) in his letter of 2 April [1868] ( Correspondence vol. 16). CD had previously asked Bowman for observations pertaining to Bell’s account of weeping (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to William Bowman, 30 …
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| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Claus, C. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Elliot, Walter | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Rait, James | (1) |
| Reuter, Adolf | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
| Fairfax, Mary | (1) |
| Greig, Mary | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
| Claus, C. F. | (1) |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
