To William Erasmus Darwin 17 February [1861]
Summary
Sends cheque.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers (RL.11684): Lady Jeanie Lucinda Musgrave (Field) Scrapbook) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2415 |
To Frederick Temple [c. 28 February 1861]
Summary
Regret that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops have severely censured Essays and Reviews [1860]. Believe "such enquiries conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential … must tend to elicit truth, and to foster a spirit of sound religion". [Signed by CD, numerous men of science, and others.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Temple |
| Date: | [c. 28 Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | H. G. Hutchinson 1914, 1: 57–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2628 |
To Leonard Horner 14 February [1861]
Summary
Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are preserved by natural selection if beneficial.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3062 |
To Williams & Norgate 16 February [1861]
Summary
Wishing to purchase a copy of Ferguson’s illustrated series of rare and prize poultry, including comprehensive essays upon all classes of domestic fowl (Ferguson 1854).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (14 June 2018, Lot 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3062F |
To Thomas Salt 17 February [1861]
Summary
Thanks for information about Major Owen’s mortgage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063F |
To Richard Kippist 13 February [1861?]
Summary
Gives notice of returning books by a carrier and thanks for assistance.
Asks whether Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville’s Ostéographie (1839–64) includes rabbits or hares.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1861?] |
| Classmark: | James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061A |
To Richard Kippist 27 [February or March 1861?]
Summary
Requests a number of books to be sent by the carrier on Thursday morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 27 [Feb or Mar] 1861 |
| Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3889A |
To Thomas Salt 9 February [1861]
Summary
Asks for advice about the mortgage to Major Owen for £20,000.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061F |
To Archibald Geikie 27 February [1861]
Summary
CD expresses his gratification that a geologist of AG’s standing and influence subscribes to the idea of the mutability of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Archibald Geikie |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3073F |
To Andrew Murray 23 February [1861]
Summary
Sends pamphlet by Asa Gray [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. Hopes AM may get it noticed in any natural history periodical in Edinburgh.
Will send AM a corrected [3d] edition of Origin. AM will find little alteration in the parts he attacked, which, to the best of CD’s judgment, did not seem to require correction. Assures AM that he does not send his new edition out of bravado.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3068 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Murray, Andrew …
- … r Crotch who has lately been in Berlin, that he saw the Anophthalmus Raymondi which had been taken in the cellars of a very ancient deserted monastery, near Toulon. I wish I knew whether the account has been published; it is very curious if true. Pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin …
From Francis Walker 1 February 1861
Summary
Identifies two dipterous species of parasites [chalcidites].
Was not able to attend to the aphids last year, but will make use of CD’s suggestions and "study as much as I can the inquiry as to species".
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.2 (ser. 3): 54–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3053 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Walker, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Fallén, Carl Frederik. 1814–27. Diptera Sveciæ. 2 vols. in 1. Lund. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
To John Tyndall 23 February [1861]
Summary
Sends correspondence between Dr Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I [of Etruria] on glaciers.
Also a pamphlet [Asa Gray, Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] containing "the best account" of the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 3 (EH 88205941) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3067 |
To John Lubbock [before 5 February 1861]
Summary
Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [before 5 Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3038 |
To James Lamont 25 February [1861]
Summary
Comments on JL’s Seasons with sea-horses [1861]. Thinks JL bold to defend his bear–whale illustration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Lamont, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3071 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 9 February 1861]
Summary
Discusses the possible explanation of why fly-orchid plants in a correspondent’s garden had no pollen-masses removed while Orchis maculata had all of its pollen-masses removed. CD points out that different orchids are fertilised by different insects. The insects needed to fertilise the fly-orchid may not have inhabited the site of the correspondent’s garden.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 9 Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 9 February 1861, p. 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061 |
To Daniel Oliver 26 February [1861]
Summary
Praise for DO’s paper on Hamamelidaceae ["On Sycopis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" family.
Hydropathy at Malvern may take him from Drosera. Requests Dionaea and Cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 26 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 39 (EH 88206022) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3072 |
To Asa Gray 26–7 February [1861]
Summary
Believes AG’s pamphlet will do natural selection "right good service".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 26–7 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3073 |
To Jeffries Wyman 3 February [1861]
Summary
Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.
Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.
Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?
Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3056 |
To Charles Lyell 2 February [1861]
Summary
Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3054 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 3 February [1861]
Summary
Is obliged for WBT’s "curious case". Discusses the effects of castration on development.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3055 |
| letter | (29) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Walker, Francis | (1) |
| Wooler, W. A. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Kippist, Richard | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Kippist, Richard | (2) |
