To William Ogle 13 April [1871]
Summary
Reports further observations on contraction of platysma. Has been assisted by J. Wood. [See Expression, pp. 302, 303.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 13 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 11 (EH 88205909) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7679 |
To William Ogle 17 November [1870]
Summary
Thanks WO for information on platysma, which he did not know could be brought into voluntary action. Is coming to believe it has nothing to do with expression.
On the relation between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants, CD suggests WO send his paper to J. Wyman and propose he investigate whether white as well as black pigs will eat paint-root.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 17 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 4 (EH 88205902) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7373 |
To William Ogle 17 December [1870]
Summary
Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.
Hopes to visit WO when next in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 17 Dec [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7394 |
From H. W. Bates 17 January [1863]
Summary
Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.
Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.
Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 67 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3925 |
To William Ogle 21 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 21 Dec [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8115 |
To William Ogle 25 March [1871]
Summary
Asks WO to act out the sudden discovery of a dreadful object and to observe whether his platysma contracts. CD has found in his notes that it is never contracted in cases of severe dyspnoea [Expression, p. 301].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 25 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 9 (EH 88205907) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7622 |
To John Murray [5 April 1845]
Summary
Thanks for note. Believes agreement with Henry Colburn does not cover 2d ed. of Journal of researches. Regrets Murray’s Colonial Library series will require one-fifth reduction of text; will consult Lyell on how to reduce scientific part. Prefers that JM consult with Colburn, but in case he declines, encloses draft of letter he would send to Colburn. Anticipates co-operation of Colburn, as he has paid CD nothing for 1st ed. of Journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [5 Apr 1845] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.3–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-851 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1866
Summary
Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5139 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 February [1868]
Summary
Has heard that Variation sold the whole edition of 1500 copies in a week [see 5844]. Has done him a world of good. Pall Mall Gazette has review which pleased him exceedingly [see 5874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5856 |
To Asa Gray 1 February [1860]
Summary
CD is glad there is to be an American edition of Origin printed from the corrected 2d English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2676 |
From John Scott 12 [February 1864]
Summary
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4386 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
From Louis Rérolle 15 June 1870
Author: | Louis Rérolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7234 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 17 May [1865]
Summary
Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.
Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4835 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Daniel Oliver, [17 September 1862] , and letter to …
- … 17. He discussed P. angustifolia in ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’ , p. 431, and in Forms of flowers , pp. 104–10, 239, 252, and 287. CD and Moggridge first discussed dimorphism in July 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
To Julius Dub 20 March 1869
Summary
CD will supply the sheets of the new edition of the Origin [5th ed. (1869)] if JD goes ahead with his work [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Arten der Organismen (1870)]. Has no objection to JD’s quoting him, but wonders whether the German publisher of Origin might not feel injured.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christoph Julius (Julius) Dub |
Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 62, 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6673 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868
Summary
Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6432 |
To Annie Dowie 16 August [1875]
Summary
The question is whether additional digits possess power of regrowth beyond the ordinary. James Paget has convinced CD that they do not. CD must alter what he has published. [See Variation, 2d. ed., 2: 459.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 16 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.473) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10119 |
From John Scott 3 March 1863
Summary
JS criticises natural selection as based on an innate "continuously watchful selective principle".
Seeks seed of wild Rocky Mountain maize.
What is CD’s view on origin of maize?
Seeks information on self-sterility of Passiflora and Lobelia.
Weeping habit of trees.
Intended to say bisexual plants presented more established varieties than unisexual, not that they are more variable.
Explains his opinion that homomorphically fertilised Primula will produce only their own form. Is trying homomorphic crosses with different coloured Primula varieties.
Asks to read Asa Gray’s 2d review of Orchids.
Has finally successfully fertilised Gongora, but it was done by unnatural means.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4021 |
To Asa Gray 8 March [1860]
Summary
Further additions and corrections for American Origin.
Views of Owen, G. H. K. Thwaites, and W. H. Harvey on CD’s theories.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2726 |
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