From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868
Summary
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6303 |
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- … From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868 …
- … DAR 177: 331 Robert Swinhoe British Legation, Peking 4 Aug 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Robert Swinhoe, [27 February 1867] ; for CD’s printed version from late 1867 or early 1868, …
- … Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877), FRS, FZS, FRGS: a Victorian naturalist in Treaty Port China. Geographical Journal 153: 37–47. Restall, Robin. 1996. Munias and mannikins. Mountfield, Sussex: Pica Press. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
To John Murray 25 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks JM for presentation copies [of Variation]. Sends directions and list.
Has been told positively that hostile review in Athenæum was by Berthold Seemann, to whom he once refused a testimonial.
On the whole, reviews have been very good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 182–183) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5931 |
To James Crichton-Browne 20 February [1871]
Summary
JC-B’s MS most useful.
P. Gratiolet’s observations on contraction and dilation of pupils of eye of a person in extreme terror. Has JC-B ever observed this? Expression has been his hobby-horse for 30 years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 334 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7499 |
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
From Edward Blyth 20 July 1868
Summary
Reports on newly discovered Sclater’s pea-fowl from Cochin China.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 July 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6281 |
From John Murray 24 February [1868]
Summary
Second issue [of Variation] is ready.
Murray thinks that the Athenæum review was written by J. E. Gray [see 5931].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 356 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5923 |
From George Warde Norman 20 September 1866
Summary
Sends a paper, by the wife of the local curate, on the habits of animals.
| Author: | George Warde Norman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5215 |
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
To Osbert Salvin 23 June [1868]
Summary
CD thanks OS for answering his questions and especially for giving the case of the sandpiper; "such little facts are my delight". [See 6253.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 23 June [1868] |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6258A |
From Robert Swinhoe 5 August 1867
Summary
Will do his best to get observations on expression among the Chinese.
Reports observations on hedgehogs collecting fruit with their spines.
Discusses the domestic pig of Formosa, its wild ancestors, and its capacity to breed with other races.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 330 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5598 |
From Edward Blyth 3 August 1868
Summary
Discusses peacocks and the rediscovery of the long-lost crested turkey.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6301 |
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From N. A. Severtsov 25 September [1875]
Summary
Sends CD the 2d part of his travels into the Tien-shan mountains [Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)].
Has written a paper on the ranges and systematics of wild sheep and on modifications probably resulting from competition with domestic sheep, which he wishes to translate into English and would like to see appended to Variation.
Discusses sexual selection in thrushes; it apparently modifies one species into another.
| Author: | Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10172 |
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- … 1868–9. The second edition of Variation was already at an advanced stage (see CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)), although it was not published until the second half of February 1876 ( Publishers’ circular 1876). Severtsov’s monograph on sheep is Severtsov 1873 ; it was not referred to in Variation 2d ed. Robert Swinhoe . …
To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Date: | [Sept 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
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- … Swinhoe, Robert. 1865. Notes on the aborigines of Formosa. Report of the thirty- fifth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Birmingham , Transactions of the sections, pp. 129–30. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. …
- … 1868. Presumably CD planned to send a copy of Variation to Swinhoe in China if he had not returned to England before the book appeared. Swinhoe had been a member of the British Association since 1863 and had presented a paper at the 1865 meeting ( Swinhoe 1865 ). The annual meeting of the British Association took place in Nottingham from 22 to 30 August 1866 ( Athenæum , 11 August 1866, p. 161). In his presidential address, William Robert …
From Robert Swinhoe 4 April 1864
Summary
Reports on a strange breed of sheep at Aden,
a Brazilian plant naturalised in Ceylon,
the Australian Casuarina equisetum spreading in Taiwan,
and an excrescence on wing of several thrushes of Taiwan similar to a growth on wing of a Syrian species.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 254–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4449 |
To Edward Blyth [after July 1868]
Summary
Questions from CD related to bird plumage and sexual differences, with answers by EB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | [after July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6532 |
From J. E. Gray 15 February 1868
Summary
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5880 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Robert Swinhoe in a letter to Gray that was published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1864): 383. Swinhoe had written: ‘the Japanese wild pig ( Sus leucomystax ) … is probably also the wild pig of South China, if it be true that the Domestic Chinese Hog is descended from that wild stock’. On the relationship between S. leucomystax and Chinese domestic pigs, see also the letter from Edward Blyth, 11 February 1868 …
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