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. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
From John Pearson 23 November 1858
Summary
Refers to CD’s article "Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 2: 19–25] and asks how forced beans flower in winter when no insect is on the wing.
| Author: | John Pearson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2370 |
Darwin, Marianne (1798–1858)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1858 CD’s eldest sister. Married Henry Parker (1788–1856) in 1824. Darwin pedigree Bibliography Darwin pedigree : Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p. : privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees , by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984. ] 1,2,4,5,6,7,10,11,13,14,15,19,20,WSL,24,27,28,29 Darwin, C. R. …
To a librarian [c. June 1858 or later]
Summary
Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Librarian |
| Date: | [c. June 1858 or later] |
| Classmark: | Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199F |
To G. J. Romanes 16 June [1878]
Summary
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 16 June [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11555 |
Parker, M. S. (1836–93)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 September 2019) Bibliography Darwin pedigree : Pedigree of the family of Darwin. Compiled by H. Farnham Burke. N.p. : privately printed. 1888. [Reprinted in facsimile in Darwin pedigrees , by Richard Broke Freeman. London: printed for the author. 1984. ] 1,7,10,12,15,18,19,29 Parker, Marianne Parker, Henry Darwin, C. R. …
To George Gabriel Stokes [12 February 1863?]
Summary
Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [12 Feb 1863?] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4085 |
To T. C. Eyton 21 August [1856]
Summary
Asks whether offspring of cross between African pig and common pig are fertile. Are Lord Rowland Hill’s African pigs domesticated?
Mentions pigeons’ skeletons.
Is working at a book on variation [Natural selection].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 21 Aug [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.135) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1942 |
To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 3 April [1856]
Summary
Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.
Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1848 |
From James Hunt [before 29 December 1857]
Summary
Birds that have been hybridised.
| Author: | James Hunt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 29 Dec 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2096 |
From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
| Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
To Laurence Edmondston 2 August [1857]
Summary
Thanks for rabbit.
Are there dun-coloured ponies in Shetlands? Are they striped?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2131 |
To E. A. Darwin 21 June [1862]
Summary
His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.553:440 (241)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3617 |
From Thomas Hutton 8 March 1856
Summary
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
| Author: | Thomas Hutton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 283 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1838 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 20 May [1850]
Summary
Describes progress in illustration of fossil cirripede specimens. Thanks for answers to questions. Comments on hermaphroditism. Describes his discovery of parasitic male cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 20 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1330 |
From Henry Doubleday 3 May 1860
Summary
Has read Origin with pleasure.
Has performed many experiments which confirm his opinion that primrose, oxlip, and cowslip are three distinct species.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162.2: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2781 |
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