To James Paget 11 March [1863]
Summary
Sends a sentence, quoting JP, on inherited peculiarities in eye-brows. Asks whether he may use it in his chapter on inheritance [Variation, ch. 12].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5436 |
To Thomas Woolner 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Woolner |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7665 |
To James Paget 3 December 1881
Summary
Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13526 |
To George Rolleston 2 March [1861]
Summary
Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
New edition of Origin to appear immediately.
Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Rolleston |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3076 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … was published in April 1861. No letters from James Paget on these topics have been found, …
- … James Paget, [15 October – 19 November 1859] ( Correspondence vol. 7). Paget was a surgeon and lecturer on physiology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was a member of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society and frequently gave accounts of interesting medical cases at club meetings. CD included both Paget’s case and that of Rolleston in his discussion of ‘correlated variability’ in Variation 2: 331–2. See also letter …
To G. J. Romanes 27 June [1881]
Summary
CD is glad the portrait [of CD by John Collier] has been arranged; suggests dates, but feels he should have no say in the subscriptions or remuneration.
Thinks the Lakes are beautiful.
Is reading W. Graham’s The creed of science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 27 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13221 |
From W. E. Darwin [13 March 1881]
Summary
Cannot write so is using Lily as secretary. Proud to be member of Geological Society. Sends observations of rhododendron leaves. Could not find piece of ploughed land. Has proved Josiah Wedgwood III’s death in North Eastern Railway Company. Taking care because head hurts.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141F |
To W. D. Fox 26 May [1876]
Summary
Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.
James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 26 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1869 (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to James Paget, 29 April [1869] ). Frances Jane …
- … letter to C. S. Wedgwood, 20 April 1876 ). Leith Hill Place in Surrey was the home of Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood III . William Erasmus Darwin’s riding accident happened on 10 May ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); James Paget …
To T. H. Huxley [8 February 1863]
Summary
On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3973 |
To Lawson Tait 28 March 1876
Summary
James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10434 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
From J. H. Gilbert 31 December 1875
Summary
Discusses fairy rings.
| Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10331F |
To Francis Darwin [2 August 1879]
Summary
Tells arrangements for their journey to Coniston.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Aug 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12179 |
From H. B. Dobell 20 April 1863
Summary
Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.
| Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4115 |
From G. H. Darwin 1 June 1876
Summary
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10522 |
To Francis Darwin 8 July 1881
Summary
Comments on the response to Movement in plants, which seems to have been successful.
Is going over revises of Earthworms.
Is investigating further his notion that leaves align themselves in the rain so as to shoot off drops of water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13237 |
To Hubert Airy 5 April [1871]
Summary
Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hubert Airy |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7659 |
To Francis Darwin 4 [June 1881]
Summary
Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 4 [June 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13193 |
To H. B. Dobell 21 April [1863]
Summary
CD thinks HBD’s tables would be a considerable gain because "the importance of hereditary transmission can hardly be exaggerated from every point of view". Makes suggestions.
Asks him to send any remarkable cases of inheritance to him and, as well, any case of regrowth of amputated additional digit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
| Date: | 21 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 6 (photocopy); Legends (dealers) (catalogue 2, 1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4117 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … James Paget had sent Dobell’s details of a case of inherited physical abnormality (see letter …
- … James Paget, 7 February 1863 ). For CD’s citations of Dobell in Variation , see letter …
- … James Paget, 7 February 1863 , n. 1. Variation was not published until 1868; CD worked on the chapters on inheritance ( Variation 2: 1–84) from 23 January until 1 April 1863 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). These chapters included material on the inheritance of disease and physical abnormalities. See letter …
Paget, Stephen, ed. 1901. Memoirs and letters of Sir James Paget. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
From H. B. Dobell 12 May 1863
Summary
Sends copy of the table, which now embodies CD’s suggestions [see 4117].
Gives instances of persons born with two thumbs and comments on hereditary factor.
| Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G 395, Dobell 1862) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4158A |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (62) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Paget, James | (6) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
| Paget, James | (11) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (95) |
| Paget, James | (17) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (6) |
