From Robert Swinhoe 14 March 1871
Summary
Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 335 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7580 |
From George Thin to Alexander Michie 19 March 1871
Summary
Bitch crossed with dog produced puppies like those of previous cross with a very different dog.
[Forwarded to CD by Robert Swinhoe.]
| Author: | George Thin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Michie |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7602 |
To T. C. Eyton 8 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on dubious story involving natural history of Formosa. Suggests that Robert Swinhoe could give an answer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 8 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.407) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7809 |
From W. W. Reade 16 January 1871
Summary
Meeting with CD postponed.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7443 |
Swinhoe, Robert. 1872a. The aborigines of Hainan. [Read 25 March 1872.] Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society n.s. 7 (1871–2): 25–40.
Swinhoe, Robert. 1872b. Narrative of an exploring visit to Hainan. [Read 13 May 1872.] Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society n.s. 7 (1871–2): 41–91.
To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1871]
Summary
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7448 |
To Albert Günther 21 January [1871]
Summary
Invites AG to stay at Down. Winwood Reade and, he hopes, Hooker and Robert Swinhoe will be there.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7450 |
From Henry Fletcher Hance 10 May 1863
Summary
Sends sketch of Catasetum tridentatum fruit at request of Edward Bradford.
CD incorrectly asserted that Catasetum is male [Orchids, pp. 236–8].
| Author: | Henry Fletcher Hance |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4152 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
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 |
From W. W. Reade 31 January 1871
Summary
Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7468 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
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 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Reade, W. W. | (2) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (2) |
| Hance, H. F. | (1) |
| Severtsov, N. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Reade, W. W. | (2) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
