From Edward Blyth 24 February 1867
Summary
Discusses sexual and seasonal differences in the plumage of birds and coats of mammals.
Remarks upon variations in the form of the canine tooth between the sexes in mammalian groups.
Plumage of allied species of plover.
Asks CD’s help with work on unimproved domestic animals.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 34, 150–1, DAR 84.1: 26–7, 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … those brought back by Alfred Newton from his visit to the Americas (see letter to J. D. …
- … Alfred Newton, 21 March 1863 ). In November 1862, while preparing a draft of the part of Variation dealing with ‘Facts of variation of Plants’, CD had unsuccessfully sought ‘odd varieties ’ of potato from Hooker, with the intention of growing a few plants of each for comparison (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
From Michael Foster 30 January 1875
Summary
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 215/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9835F |
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 15 October 1866
Summary
The blocks [for Variation] have been forwarded to Murray.
WBT has been corresponding with Prof. Newton.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5243 |
From Alfred Newton 21 March 1863
Summary
Sends tuber of Chilean wild potato, requested through Hooker and P. L. Sclater.
Plans to exhibit a bird’s foot with a large ball of clay attached. This phenomenon supports CD on seed dispersal.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4054 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Alfred Newton papers). Probably Henry Benjamin Colchester. Newton made a short visit to the West Indies in October and November 1862, returning to Britain in January 1863 (see Wollaston 1921 , p. 75, and letter …
- … Newton exhibited the foot of the partridge Caccabis rufa at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 21 April 1863; its owner was Henry Stevenson , secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich Museum (see Newton 1863 ). Newton made the specimen available to CD in October 1863 (see letter from Alfred …
From J. J. Weir [before 17] October 1868
Summary
Both sexes of Crossoptilon auritum (eared pheasant) obtained the red cheeks the first year.
Coloration of the linnet.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17] Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A36, 53; DAR 84.1: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6421 |
From Alfred Newton 27 November 1866
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Origin [4th ed.].
Has met CD’s son [George] at Trinity College.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5285 |
From G. H. Darwin 14 February 1869
Summary
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6614 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867
Summary
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5539 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Alfred Newton was professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Cambridge University ( ODNB ). Hooker had suggested in his letter …
- … letters from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 and 20 March 1867 . The reference is to George Clark’s paper on his discovery of dodo remains in a marsh near Mahébourg, Mauritius ( G. Clark 1866 ); the quotation is from p. 145. By ‘Ceylon Elk or Jamboc’ Barkly probably meant the sambar, Cervus unicolor (subgenus Rusa ; see EB s.v. Ceylon, and Nowak 1999 ). Alfred Newton , …
From George Rolleston 26 December 1876
Summary
Has sent Balfour’s certificate on to Ray Lankester, and encloses a certificate for Moseley for CD to sign.
Calls attention to a paper by Emil Bessels on Eskimos, which he extracts [see 10737].
CD has cited GR for material that is not his in Variation, 2d ed., 1: 469, on transmission of mutilation.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10734 |
From F. M. Balfour [14] December [1876]
Summary
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14] Dec [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10712 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1868]
Summary
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 55–7c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5951 |
From Hugh Falconer 18 January [1863]
Summary
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3926 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1868
Summary
Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.
JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].
Cannot read Duke of Argyll.
CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 189–190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5807 |
From Albert Günther 21 May 1872
Summary
Believes many of the species and even genera of the fish family Labyrinthici are products of domestication.
Events at the British Museum.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8344 |
To Albert Günther 16 January [1870]
Summary
Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7080 |
Matches: 1 hit
From R. B. Sharpe 23 November [1874]
Summary
RBS seeks a testimonial from CD; he is applying for the British Museum vacancy left by J. E. Gray’s resignation and A. Günther’s promotion.
| Author: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9730 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter ‘1871’, but the content indicates that it was written in 1874. John Edward Gray’s resignation as keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum was formally accepted in December 1874, but he stopped work in November owing to ill health. Albert Günther was appointed to the post on 6 February 1875. See A. E. Gunther 1975 , pp. 166 and 330. Philip Lutley Sclater , Alfred Newton , …
From G. H. Darwin 14 December 1878
Summary
Asks CD if he would screw himself up to inviting A. Newton to Down.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11796 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Alfred Newton was professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Cambridge; Francis Darwin had become friends with Newton while he was a student at Cambridge. Newton had visited Down with Francis from 22 to 24 January 1870 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). No record of Newton’s visiting Down around this time has been found. Anthony Rich had decided to bequeath his property in the City of London to CD in recognition of CD’s contribution to science (see letter …
From H. M. Wallis 27 March 1881
Summary
Is glad CD finds his observations on hair growth on ears new and interesting.
Mentions instances in which young birds possess abilities lacking in the adult.
| Author: | Henry Marriage Wallis |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.9: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13099 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to H. M. Wallis, 22 March 1881 . Wallis’s son was Anthony Wallis . The sister and son referred to have not been identified. The first major baby show in Britain was held in Woolwich in 1869, following successful shows in America organised by Phineas Taylor Barnum . For more on the baby-show phenomenon, see Shuttleworth 2010 , pp. 233–8. Alfred Newton …
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