From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1864 ). There are no offprints of the paper in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. According to Emma …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Galton enquired in Notes and Queries on China and Japan 2 (1868): 120 whether the history of public competition in China tended to show that certain families were ‘eminently endowed with scholastic ability’. A reply appeared in the issue for October 1868, and Galton cited it in Galton 1869 , p. 335. No other reply has been found. Swinhoe refers to his paper, ‘On a new rat from Formosa’, first published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 1864 ( …
To Robert Garner 22 February [1870–1]
Summary
Thanks for sending him a hybrid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Garner |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115F |
From Henry Bence Jones 2 August 1870
Summary
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
| Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293 |
From Asa Gray 21 November 1870
Summary
Reports case of apparent incipient dimorphism. Observations on variations in flower structure, especially style length, within species of Polemoniaceae.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B70–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7378 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864 , pp. 80–3). Gray had read proof-sheets of Variation (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1867] ). Gray and his wife, Jane Loring Gray , visited England from September 1868 to November 1869, also travelling on the Continent (J. L. Gray ed. 1893, 2: 565; see also Correspondence vols. 16 and 17). The Grays and others visited Down House between 24 and 30 October 1868 ( Emma Darwin’ …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Garner, Robert | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Garner, Robert | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
