To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
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- … on 28 December (see letter to Richard Owen, [28 December 1837] ). Owen described it as ‘ A …
- … Pitois-Levrault et Cie, P. Bertrand. Owen, Richard. 1837. A description of the cranium of …
To Richard Owen [28 December 1837]
Summary
CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [28 Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-396 |
From Richard Owen [7 August 1837]
Summary
Dissected beak of Rhynchops shows no extensive innervation. But beak may nevertheless be a sensitive organ of touch as CD suggests.
Author: | Richard Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Aug 1837] |
Classmark: | Birds 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-371 |
To Richard Owen [15 December 1837 – 9 June 1838]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-418F |
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- … To Richard Owen [15 December 1837 – 9 June 1838] …
- … DAR 185: 115 Charles Robert Darwin [15 Dec 1837 – 9 June 1838] Richard Owen …
- … Richard Owen (see n. 2, below). It is likely that the fossils were despatched by Fox to CD some time after their first mention in the correspondence (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to W. D. Fox, [11 December 1837] ). …
To Richard Owen 28 [December 1837]
Summary
Sends perfect revise of "Toxodon" [Fossil Mammalia] which he has read and marked.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1837] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/209) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-395 |
Owen, Richard. 1837. A description of the cranium of the Toxodon platensis, a gigantic extinct mammiferous species, referrible by its dentition to the Rodentia, but with affinities to the Pachydermata and the herbivorous Cetacea. [Read 19 April 1837.] Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2 (1833–8): 541–2.
To Richard Owen [January 1838]
Summary
Would like to call upon RO to discuss the last engravings sent by George Scharf. CD assumes that the revise of Toxodon [see 395] was received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Jan 1838] |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-399A |
Rupke, Nicolaas A. 1985. Richard Owen’s Hunterian lectures on comparative anatomy and physiology, 1837–55. Medical History 29: 237–58.
Hunter, John. 1837. Observations on certain parts of the animal œconomy … with notes by Richard Owen. Vol. 4 of The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes, edited by James F. Palmer. 4 vols. London. 1835–7. [vols. 5,7]
To W. H. Flower 24 September [1876]
Summary
Sends photographs received from Mr Van der Weyde who is working with associates in Montevideo collecting fossil bones. Asks WHF’s opinion of a specimen about which they are curious.
CD intends urging them to search the Tertiary bed beneath the Pampean formation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 24 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (15 July 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10615 |
To Richard Owen [2 April 1848]
Summary
Apologises for length of notes of advice for microscopic work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [2 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Hyde 77: 2. 82. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167F |
To Richard Owen [March 1843 – 15 May 1846]
Summary
Invites the Owens to stay at Down, joining Falconer and a few others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Mar 1843 – 15 May 1846] |
Classmark: | Michael H. McHugh (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-657 |
To Charles Lyell 30 July 1837
Summary
Galapagos land birds and reptiles.
No two naturalists agree on any fundamental idea [of species]. "Everything is arbitrary."
Has been with Richard Owen going over the S. American fossils.
Has worked out the non-relation between animals’ bulk and luxuriance of vegetation.
The horse once common on the Pampas. The mystery of the extinction of these animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July 1837 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell Collection Coll-203/A1/69: 140–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-367 |
To W. D. Fox [15 June 1838]
Summary
Has not been well.
Plans a geological trip to Glen Roy in Scotland.
Thanks WDF for remembering the crossing of animals, CD’s "prime hobby". "I really think some day I shall be able to do something on that most intricate subject species and varieties."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [15 June 1838] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-419 |
From Edward Blyth [22 September 1855]
Summary
Gives extract from a letter from Capt. R. Tickell: rabbits are not bred by the Burmese; common European and Chinese geese are bred but have probably only recently been introduced.
EB gives references to works illustrating the dog-like instinct of N. American wolves.
Discusses reason and instinct; ascribes both to man and animals. Comments on various instincts, e. g. homing, migratory, parental, constructive, and defensive. Reasoning in animals; cattle learning to overcome fear of passing trains.
Hybrid sterility as an indication of distinct species. Interbreeding as an indication of common parentage.
Enlarges upon details given by J. C. Prichard [in The natural history of man (1843)].
Adaptation of the two-humped camel to cold climates. Camel hybrids.
Doubts that domestic fowl or fancy pigeons have ever reverted to the wild.
Feral horses and cattle of S. America.
Believes the "creole pullets" to be a case of inaccurate description.
Variations in skulls between species of wild boar.
Pigs are so prolific that the species might be expected to cross.
Milk production of cows and goats.
Sheep and goats of lower Bengal.
Indian breeds of horses.
Variation in Asiatic elephants.
Spread of American tropical and subtropical plants in the East.
EB distinguishes between races and artificially-produced breeds.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this memorandum.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Sept 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A85–A92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1755 |
To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837
Summary
Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.
Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 27 Feb 1837 |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-346 |
To Richard Owen 10 December [1859]
Summary
Sends source of description of swimming bear catching insects [Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the northern ocean … (1795); see Origin, p. 184].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 10 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/211, 213) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2576 |
To Richard Owen 19 December [1836]
Summary
Has written to Royal College of Surgeons, exactly as RO recommended, concerning disposition of his South American fossil bones. He fixed on the British Museum, rather than Paris, to receive plaster casts, because he was on board a King’s ship. Suggests RO propose another set for Paris, where they would be more useful than at BM. Has scarcely begun unpacking his cases.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 19 Dec [1836] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-329 |
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