From Edward Blyth [after 24 February 1867]
Summary
Sexual differences in bird species and seasonal variation in plumage.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 105–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6403 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 5 March [1867?]
Summary
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1867?] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1394 |
To Edward Blyth 23 February [1867]
Summary
Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.
Thinks of writing a short essay on man.
Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.
Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.
Will send Variation when it is published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5413 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … arranged according to its organisation. Mammalia, birds, and reptiles by Edward Blyth. The …
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 |
From Edward Blyth 24 February 1867
Summary
Discusses sexual and seasonal differences in the plumage of birds and coats of mammals.
Remarks upon variations in the form of the canine tooth between the sexes in mammalian groups.
Plumage of allied species of plover.
Asks CD’s help with work on unimproved domestic animals.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 34, 150–1, DAR 84.1: 26–7, 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418 |
From W. B. Dawkins 27 August 1867
Summary
Thanks for CD’s letter; hopes by his work to add one grain of proof to CD’s theories.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5618 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … However, in a paper on the prehistoric Mammalia of Great Britain ( Dawkins 1868b ), there …
From Julius von Haast 12 May – 2 June 1867
Summary
JvH will help with expression queries. Considers CD’s investigation highly important and original. Sends list of men to whom he is sending copies of the questions.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May – 2 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5534 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … each other & perhaps with those of the higher Mammalia for ethnological studies and I need …
From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 7 January 1867]
Summary
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Jan 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 134a–d |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … I got up a very fair genealogy of the Mammalia in my last Hunterian course; but I have …
To J. V. Carus 16 September 1867
Summary
Thanks JVC for his biography [of CD].
Has almost finished first proofs of Variation.
Has difficulty in answering JVC’s queries about dogs because of differences in German names and breeds. Refers him to A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1868] and, on pigeons, to Gottlob Neumeister’s book [Das Ganze der Taubenzucht (1837)].
Hopes JVC is not discouraged by first volume. Thinks second will be more interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1867 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 10–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5628 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and Proteles. 2 vols. (Vols. 4 and 5 of Mammalia in The naturalist’s library , edited by …
From J. V. Carus 11 September 1867
Summary
JVC is having difficulty in translating the names of dogs [in Variation]. Also asks CD for help with names of pigeons.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Sept 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5625 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and Proteles. 2 vols. (Vols. 4 and 5 of Mammalia in The naturalist’s library , edited by …
| letter | (11) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Blyth, Edward | (5) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (1) |
| Haast, Julius von | (1) |
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …
