To B. D. Walsh 21 September 1868
Summary
Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].
His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6382 |
From John Murray 18 September [1868]
Summary
JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 360 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6376 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 16 October [1866]
Summary
Hopes to begin printing Variation at the beginning of next year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5244 |
Sulivan, T. E. (1846–73)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1868–70; lieutenant on HMS Pert , stationed off the Cape of Good Hope, 1870, and the south-east coast of America, 1871–3. The National Archives (ADM 196/16/399) Navy list 1865–73 Sulivan ed. 1896 Bibliography Navy list : The navy list. London: John Murray; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1815–1900. Sulivan, Henry Norton, ed. 1896. Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, KCB, 1810–1890. London: John Murray. 12,13,14,18,22 Sulivan, B. …
To J. D. Hooker 7 September [1854]
Summary
On individuality.
Huxley’s review exquisite, but too severe on Vestiges; sorry for ridicule of Agassiz’s embryonic fishes.
Stonesfield mammals.
J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society Medal.
Will begin species work in a few days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1588 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 15 February 1868]
Summary
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5878 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 February [1868]
Summary
Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5879 |
To J. V. Carus 8 October [1867]
Summary
CD provides explanations and advice on translating names and descriptions of breeds of fowls.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 14–15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5644 |
From J. V. Carus 5 October 1867
Summary
Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5641 |
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
From Walter Elliot 7 September 1869
Summary
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
| Author: | Walter Elliot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6880 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 July [1857]
Summary
Arrangements for delivery of pigeons and poultry to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 27 July [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2128 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 [December 1862]
Summary
Can WBT help get an answer to a query on ducks?
Has heard of a case of special sterility in cattle, in which a particular pair are sterile, but the individuals are both fertile with others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3869 |
From Thomas Rivers 29 March 1872
Summary
Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.
Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 173 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8259 |
To John Murray 21 and 22 December [1866]
Summary
Submits the MS of Variation, all excepting the section on Man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 21 and 22 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | Herb Sewell (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5314F |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 20 January [1860]
Summary
Gives the results of crossing experiments; some interesting and curious facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2656 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 April [1858]
Summary
CD will go over his pigeon MS and then dispose of all his birds. Has Burmese fowls’ skins if WBT is interested.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2255 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [7 April 1865]
Summary
Fowl MS has arrived safely.
Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.
Further instructions for Luke Wells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4806 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
From Alfred Moschkau 2 [December] 1873
Summary
Discusses variation and selection in Harz canaries.
| Author: | Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [Dec] 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 249 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9125 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Elliot, Walter | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
