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 |
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 |
To Edward Blyth [18 February 1867]
Summary
Asks to meet EB for a walk in the Zoological Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [18 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5406 |
From Edward Blyth 21 September 1863
Summary
Sends some original observations on British ferns [not found].
Has secured a small pension and hopes to acquire a house near Kew.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4300 |
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 |
From Edward Blyth 27 March 1863
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062 |
To A. R. Wallace 29 April [1867]
Summary
Comments on ARW’s view of colouring in relation to sexual selection and protection. It is not new to CD. Hopes to discuss subject fully in his "Essay on Man" [Descent]. As to the problem of brightly coloured females, CD is not satisfied that it is due to males taking over incubation. Admires "value and beauty" of ARW’s generalisations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 29 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5517 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [8–10 September 1868]
Summary
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8–10 Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 91–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6357 |
From Edward Blyth 11 February 1868
Summary
Corrects some facts and gives further information on some points for the 2d ed. of Variation.
Specific distinctions among animals.
Cercopithecus of Africa contrasted with the Cebus of South America.
Notes on domestic fowls and their ancestors.
Slow growth of wild animals compared with domestic varieties.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B169a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5861 |
From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6350 |
From Edward Blyth [22 September 1855]
Summary
Gives extract from a letter from Capt. R. Tickell: rabbits are not bred by the Burmese; common European and Chinese geese are bred but have probably only recently been introduced.
EB gives references to works illustrating the dog-like instinct of N. American wolves.
Discusses reason and instinct; ascribes both to man and animals. Comments on various instincts, e. g. homing, migratory, parental, constructive, and defensive. Reasoning in animals; cattle learning to overcome fear of passing trains.
Hybrid sterility as an indication of distinct species. Interbreeding as an indication of common parentage.
Enlarges upon details given by J. C. Prichard [in The natural history of man (1843)].
Adaptation of the two-humped camel to cold climates. Camel hybrids.
Doubts that domestic fowl or fancy pigeons have ever reverted to the wild.
Feral horses and cattle of S. America.
Believes the "creole pullets" to be a case of inaccurate description.
Variations in skulls between species of wild boar.
Pigs are so prolific that the species might be expected to cross.
Milk production of cows and goats.
Sheep and goats of lower Bengal.
Indian breeds of horses.
Variation in Asiatic elephants.
Spread of American tropical and subtropical plants in the East.
EB distinguishes between races and artificially-produced breeds.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this memorandum.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Sept 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A85–A92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1755 |
From A. R. Wallace 30 August [1868]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6334 |
To John George Children 22 February [1838]
Summary
Testifies to the courtesy and helpfulness of George Gray [assistant at the British Museum]. [See 402b.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John George Children |
Date: | 22 Feb [1838] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Officers’ Reports 20 (1838): 5314) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-402F |
To A. R. Wallace 19 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 19 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6322 |
To J. J. Weir 1 September 1868
Summary
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 1 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6343 |
To Edgar Leopold Layard 9 December 1855
Summary
Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
Date: | 9 Dec 1855 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (3)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1794 |
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- … Edward Blyth, 22–3 August 1855 ). See also CD’s memorandum, [December 1855]. Charles John Andersson was a Swedish-born naturalist and collector in South Africa. George Henry Kendrick Thwaites , superintendent of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon, became an important source of information on Ceylon for both Natural selection and Variation . See the letter to George Henry Kendrick Thwaites, 10 …
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856]
Summary
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1817 |
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- … Edward Blyth, 4 August 1855 . His references are to Sheridan 1781 , act 5 scene 1, and Fryer 1698 , p. 116. Illustrated London News , 10 …
- … 10 January [1857] ). Edwards 1758–64 , 3: 269. Columella, De re rustica 8. 2. 2–3. Columella distinguished an African fowl, called ‘Numidian’ with a red helmet and crest, from ‘Meleagris’ with a blue helmet and crest. Blyth …
From Edward Blyth [30 September or 7 October 1855]
Summary
Origin of domestic varieties. EB ascribes "abnormal" variations to man’s propagation of casual monstrosities; believes "normal" variations, e.g. European races of cattle, are a consequence of man’s selecting the choicest specimens. Gives examples of "abnormal" variations; they give rise to features that have no counterpart among possible wild progenitors. Divides domestic animals into those whose origin is known and those whose origin is unknown. Considers that the wild progenitors of nearly all domestic birds are known. Fowls and pigeons show many varieties but if propagated abnormalities are ignored each group can be seen to be variations of a single species, the ancestors of which can be recognised without difficulty. Discusses varieties and ancestry of the domestic fowl. Variation in the wild; the ruff shows exceptional variability; other species of birds show variability in size of individuals. Remarks that markings sometimes vary on different sides of the same animal. Comments on the want of regularity in leaf and petal patterns of some plants. Discusses domestic varieties of reindeer and camels. Origin of humped cattle. Reports the rapid spread of a snail in lower Bengal that was introduced as a single pair five or six years previously.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of part of this memorandum. Memorandum originally enclosed with 1760.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Sept or 7 Oct] 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A25–A36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1761 |
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Blyth, Edward | (9) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Hill, Richard | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Children, J. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Blyth, Edward | (11) |
Wallace, A. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |