From John Evans 14 December 1868
Summary
Apologises; CD is correct: the object his foreman found is not organic.
| Author: | John Evans |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6503 |
To J. B. Innes 16 December 1868
Summary
Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6505 |
From John Hellins 16 December 1868
Summary
Results of his breeding have not borne out his opinion that females are more numerous in Lepidoptera [see Descent 1: 313]. Still convinced he is right, suggests only way to settle question is by controlled breeding of large numbers of each species.
| Author: | John Hellins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B76–7, B84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6506 |
From J. B. Innes 18 December 1868
Summary
Has forwarded a veterinary surgeon’s description of the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer, see 6504]. A neighbour who has seen it is convinced it is genuine.
JBI can do no more about John Robinson.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6507 |
To J. N. Hegt 18 December 1868
Summary
Thanks for information about the spurs in the young of Pavo muticus and Pavo cristatus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | J. Noordhoek Hegt |
| Date: | 18 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | Stadsarchief Amsterdam (395: 614) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6507F |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 December 1868
Summary
Concerning death of August Schleicher.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6509 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 22 December 1868
Summary
The first half of vol. 2 of Variation is printed.
News of his marriage.
Sends portraits of Russian scientists.
Hopes CD will write his book on man and asks permission to translate it.
Moving to Germany for two or three years.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6510 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1868]
Summary
T. H. Farrer’s paper is capital.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Dec 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6511 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1868]
Summary
Is working on new edition of Origin [5th (1869)].
Asks JDH’s assistance on a problem posed by Nägeli on morphological differences that are of no utility to plants and hence could not be selected. CD wants to show that these differences do not support the idea of progressive development as Nägeli suggests.
Owen pitches into CD and Lyell in third volume of Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 105–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6512 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 December 1868
Summary
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6514 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 December 1868
Summary
JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].
Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 108—9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6515 |
From William Alexander Wooler 29 December 1868
Summary
Observations that confirm CD’s deduction that half-bred Persian cats are fruitful one with another. Relates case of Persian characters reappearing in the offspring of a common cat which was the descendant of a half-bred Persian.
| Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6516 |
From Sven Nilsson 31 December 1868
Summary
On the development of horns in Lapland reindeer. [See Descent 1: 288.]
| Author: | Sven Nilsson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6517 |
From Cassell, Petter & Galpin 31 December 1868
Summary
Bill for electrotypes from Brehm’s Thierleben [for use in Variation].
| Author: | Cassell, Petter, & Galpin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6518 |
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| Innes, J. B. | (5) |
| Croll, James | (2) |
| Beale, T. B. | (1) |
| Behrens, Frederick | (1) |
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| Croll, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hegt, J. N. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Innes, J. B. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Croll, James | (3) |
| Behrens, Frederick | (2) |
