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 |
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 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 Edward Blyth 4 October 1868
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions on sexual differences in birds.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 100–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6409 |
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … p. xiii, and letter from Edward Blyth, 13 January 1866 ( Calendar no. 4975)). Richard …
- … Edward Blyth, 27 March 1863 and n. 2). A note of CD’s on remarks made by Blyth and others at the Dublin Natural History Society’s meeting on 15 January 1864 indicates that he read a report of the meeting in the 5 March 1864 issue of the Reader , p. 307 (see DAR 205.3: 8). For Blyth’s lecture tour of Ireland and Scotland during 1864, see Brandon-Jones 1997 , pp. 171–2. Blyth settled in England, writing to CD in 1866 …
From Edward Blyth 19 February 1867
Summary
Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]
discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,
abnormal habits shown by birds,
behaviour of cuckoos,
and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.
Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.
[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5405 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … n.s. 11: 897–928, 1095–112; 12: 240–7. Blyth, Edward. 1866–7. The ornithology of India. A …
- … Edward Blyth, [19 February 1867] . The fourth edition of Origin was published in November 1866 ( …
- … 1866): 225–58, 336–76; 3 (1867): 1–48, 147–85. Brandon-Jones, Christine. 1995. Long gone and forgotten: reassessing the life and career of Edward Blyth, …
- … Blyth refers to The naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia , in which John Keast Lord observed that the ‘true Indian dog’ was a tame coyote, but only in inland areas where there were no opportunities for breeding with imported dogs ( Lord 1866 , 2: 218–25). CD cited Lord 1866 in Variation 1: 22–3; both Lord and CD noted that the coyote was Canis latrans. For John Edward …
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 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 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 |
From Edward Blyth 13 September 1869
Summary
Gives some observations and opinions on the appearance and behaviour of mandrills.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6887 |
From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
To Carl Vogt 12 April [1867]
Summary
Would be great honour to have CV translate Variation, but Schweizerbart has arranged for J. V. Carus to do it.
Has read CV’s Lectures on man [1864] with extreme interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Vogt |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms fr. 2188, ff. 300–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5499 |
From William Sedgwick 29 February 1868
Summary
Sends extracts giving details of the case of age-limited, hereditary blindness [see Variation 2: 78].
Recounts some cases of reversion that he has encountered.
| Author: | William Sedgwick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5959 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh [25 February 1867]
Summary
Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.
Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5419 |
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] …
From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867
Summary
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5539 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1866 ); the quotation is from p. 145. By ‘Ceylon Elk or Jamboc’ Barkly probably meant the sambar, Cervus unicolor (subgenus Rusa ; see EB s.v. Ceylon, and Nowak 1999 ). Alfred Newton , the editor of Ibis , the periodical in which Clark’s paper was published, added a note to Clark’s remarks about an earlier discovery of antlers of the deer that still existed on Mauritius in the marsh near Mahébourg, saying that these deer had been identified by Edward Blyth …
To J. D. Hooker 10 May 1848
Summary
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 May 1848 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1174 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Blyth had gone to India in 1841 to become curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . CD’s notes on Blyth’s articles in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the use to which they were put in the Origin are discussed in Sheets-Pyenson 1981 . CD’s guess is in his letter to J. D. Hooker, [31 October 1847] . Hooker eventually made insular floras the subject of a lecture at the British Association meeting of 1866 ( …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sedgwick, William | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Vogt, Carl | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
