To P. L. Sclater 11 November [1870]
Summary
Accepts PLS’s offer to read proofs of [Descent].
W. H. Hudson’s paper is interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 11 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7366 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … between this letter and the letter to P. L. Sclater, 9 November 1870 . Sclater’s letter …
- … P. L. Sclater, 9 November 1870 ). William Clowes & Sons were printing Descent. Sclater had sent CD proofs of William Henry Hudson’s letters …
- … to P. L. Sclater, 9 November 1870 ). CD may refer to a passage at the end of a letter …
To P. L. Sclater 26 December [1870]
Summary
Sending two sheets [of Descent]. About one-and-a-half more will complete PLS’s task.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 26 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7402 |
To P. L. Sclater 14 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3545 |
Matches: 3 hits
To P. L. Sclater 21 November [1870]
Summary
Sends two sheets [of Descent] for correction of names of birds. PLS will save him many disgraceful misspellings. Descent now being prepared in five foreign editions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 21 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7379 |
To T. H. Huxley [29 December 1880]
Summary
Has asked Hooker to sign the Wallace memorial and send it on to THH.
Read splendid lecture by THH on evolution in the Times ["On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata and more particularly of the Mammalia", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1880): 649–62].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 363) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12935 |
To P. L. Sclater 9 November 1870
Summary
Thanks PLS for his generous offer to go over the part on birds [in Descent]. Does not think PLS realises that there are more than 200 pages – most of which will have nothing new for him.
W. H. Hudson’s proofs have arrived ["Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1870): 87–9, 158–60, 332–4, 545–50, 671–3, 748–50, 798–82; (1871): 4–7, 258–62, 326–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 9 Nov 1870 |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7362 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Sclater’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to P. L. …
- … Sclater, 4 November [1870] . Sclater had evidently offered to check the page proofs of the sections on birds in Descent , rather than just lists of names, as CD had suggested. CD presumably refers to the later parts of William Henry Hudson’s letters to the Zoological Society of London on the ornithology of Buenos Aires ( Hudson 1870 ). See letter to P. L. …
From B. D. Walsh [28 November 1866]
Summary
Says Jacob W. Velie wants to exchange birds’ skins with European naturalist.
Comments on meaning of "Darwinism".
Encloses papers from Practical Entomologist.
Discusses Ornithorhynchus paradoxus
and his paper on willow galls.
Mentions human skull found in California.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5319 |
To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther 6 March [1860]
Summary
Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2725 |
From P. L. Sclater 11 February 1860
Summary
Informs CD that Sylvicola aureola may be a distinct species but is a close ally of S. aestiva of N. and S. America and perhaps only a "climatic variety".
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 290, DAR 205.7: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2692 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Sclater, [3? February 1860] , and letter to P. L. Sclater, 4 February [1860] . The …
- … Sclater was secretary of the Zoological Society of London , and he frequently contributed notices and reports at the society’s meetings. See letter to P. L. …
- … Sclater, 4 February [1860] . In the postscript to the preface of the new issue of Journal of researches (1860) , p. vii, CD stated: ‘Mr. Sclater thinks that one or two of these endemic [Galápagos] forms should be ranked rather as varieties than species, which always seemed to me probable. ’ Sylvicola aureola is a synonym of Setophaga petechia subsp. aureola , the mangrove warbler. Sylvicola aestiva is a synonym of Setophaga aestiva , the American yellow warbler. See letter from P. L. …
To John Murray 4 February [1860]
Summary
Final arrangements for new edition of Journal of researches [1860]. Wants one copy to give to P. L. Sclater, who has aided him.
Asks that copy of Origin be sent immediately to Schweizerbart for German translation.
Asa Gray is going to bring out an edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.84–85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2686 |
To H. W. Bates [29 December 1880]
Summary
Asks HWB to sign the memorial, possibly with official title, and then to pass it quickly to Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12952 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 December 1880]
Summary
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Jeffrey Winograd (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300F |
To P. L. Sclater 14 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.197) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2695 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See letter from P. L. Sclater, 11 February 1860 . George Robert Gray , an assistant in …
- … Sclater, 11 February 1860 ). In Birds , pp. 34–5 and 45–6, Strix punctatissima and Pyrocephalus nanus were stated to be species that were confined to the Galápagos Islands. Sclater had recently advised CD that they also occurred in Ecuador (see letter from P. L. …
To P. L. Sclater 4 November [1870]
Summary
Asks PLS whether he will look over list of names of birds [for Descent] to make sure they are spelled correctly. "I have a most unfortunate weakness … to copy proper names incorrectly".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7356 |
To John Murray 29 January [1860]
Summary
Had forgotten that Journal [of researches] was stereotyped. Not worth while now to improve style. Wants to make a few corrections, if possible, on p. 378.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 29 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.96–97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2668 |
From Philip Lutley Sclater [3? February 1860]
Author: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3? Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2683 |
From Robert Swinhoe [before 1 October 1865?]
Summary
Reports that dogs caught in the act of sodomy have been attacked by their fellows, who mutilate the offender’s genitals.
Gives a description of the nature and occurrence of the wild Bos of Formosa.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Oct 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4727 |
To H. W. Bates 3 January 1881
Summary
Alarm over Wallace’s memorial; asks HWB if he has received it and forwarded it to Hooker. Wanted to get it to Gladstone before Parliament met.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 3 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12970 |
To P. L. Sclater 12 [March 1861]
Summary
Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].
Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 12 [Mar 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3086 |
To B. D. Walsh 24 December [1866]
Summary
Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5320 |
letter | (36) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Sclater, P. L. | (2) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (2) |
Hoek, P. P. C. | (1) |
Jardine, William | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
Sclater, P. L. | (15) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |