To W. D. Fox 18 June [1860]
Summary
Has WDF ever observed musk ducks laying eggs in high places? The case bears on retention of aboriginal habits.
Also wants data on period of gestation of dog breeds. [See Variation 1: 30.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2836 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Fox, W. D. …
- … To W. D. Fox 18 June [1860] …
- … Fox’s letter discussing this point has not been found. CD cited Fox’s responses in Variation 2: 40: ‘the Rev. W. D. Fox …
- … Fox has given me three carefully recorded cases of [the period of gestation of] retrievers’. CD refers to John Howard Galton , a relative of both Fox and CD, with whom Fox had corresponded about bloodhounds in 1838. See Correspondence vol. 2, letter from W. D. Fox, [ …
To W. D. Fox 18 May [1860]
Summary
Attacks [on Origin] are "hot and heavy". Adam Sedgwick and William Clark at Cambridge Philosophical Society opened a battery. J. S. Henslow defended in grand style.
Slow progress on bigger book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 128) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2809 |
To W. D. Fox 22 [March 1860]
Summary
Only proof that internal organs and bones were intermediate would convince CD of the possibility of the astounding [deer] hybrid WDF has reported.
Has WDF positive knowledge that common ganders do not always turn white?
Has begun his larger books. New editions of Origin will appear.
What is right and wrong in it will soon be sifted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 22 [Mar 1860] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2733 |
To W. D. Fox 18 October [1860]
Summary
The hybrid case is most curious, if true. So many have tried to get hybrids from hare and rabbit.
Has done little regular work – correspondence on Origin has been gigantic.
Has amused himself working on power of Drosera to catch flies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 130) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2953 |
To W. D. Fox 17 December [1860]
Summary
Writes of family photographs and health.
Is at work on an enlarged [3d] edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 130a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3025 |
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