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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 …
To A. R. Wallace 16 September [1868]
Summary
CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 16 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6368 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 May 1857
Summary
Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".
On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.
Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 1 May 1857 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2086 |
To Hermann Welcker 30 January 1880
Summary
Thanks for letter of 18th January 1880 and for present of Essays. Interested in Welcker’s investigation of the 'ligamentum teres', and his comment on the feet of the Chinese.
Will esteem it an honour if Welcker dedicates his next book to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hermann Welcker |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1880 |
| Classmark: | Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitätsarchiv (Rep. 29, Nr. 715) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12442G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Blyth, [1–8 October 1855] , and Correspondence vol. 13, supplement, letter from W. C. L. Martin, [1859–61] ). Paul Broca ; see Broca 1870 , p. 556. Welcker had sent CD two papers on Chinese foot-binding and its possible hereditary effects ( Welcker 1870 and Welcker 1872a ; see letter from Hermann Welcker, 18 January 1880 and n. 10). …
To R. F. Cooke 30 January [1871]
Summary
Asks that review copy [of Descent] be sent to F. P. Cobbe.
Discusses mailing of presentation copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7466 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Blyth’s name has been deleted in one column and left undeleted in another; Charles Langstaff’s name has not been added. Langstaff, a surgeon, was a friend of William Erasmus Darwin and had given CD information for Expression ; see Correspondence vol. 16, letter to W. E. Darwin, 8 April [1868] . Blyth was later reinstated on Cooke’s presentation list by CD (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 10 …
To Walter Elliot 23 January 1856
Summary
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1856 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1824 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 th 1856’. The table is marked with a ‘3’, the number of CD’s portfolio on variation and varieties, and CD has noted in pencil: ‘I have not thought worth using’. Elliot is cited several times in Variation , but the information on tigers was not used in that work nor in Natural selection or Origin . A Persian treatise by Sayzid Mohammed Musari. Elliot is thanked in Variation 1: 141, for providing CD with a translation of this work. Gladwin trans. 1783–6. Edward Blyth …
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| Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Children, J. G. | (1) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Children, J. G. | (1) |
