To ? 13 December [1869]
Summary
Has given the right of translation [of Descent] to Julius Victor Carus of Leipzig, so the recipient should inform Alexander Duncker to communicate with JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028F |
From Charles Boner [December 1869 – early January 1870]
Summary
In answer to CD’s queries, relates further details about feral sheep: they are sterile when wild, but can become tame again.
Author: | Charles Boner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Dec 1869 – early Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7017 |
To Fritz Müller 1 December [1869]
Summary
Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.
Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.
Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 1 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7018 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 December [1869]
Summary
Inquires about arrangements for the German translation and publication of their original Linnean Society papers [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
ARW thinks he has hit upon a solution to problem of geological time.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B88–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7019 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 December [1869]
Summary
Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7020 |
From E. A. Darwin 7 December [1869]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B67, DAR 166: 234 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7023 |
From John Lubbock 8 December [1869]
Summary
Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].
Has been lecturing in Scotland.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7024 |
From C. S. Bate 11 December 1869
Summary
Provides further detail on his smooth-leaved holly tree with a spiny-leaved branch; his gardener asserts no budding or grafting has taken place.
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7025 |
From Francis Galton 11 December 1869
Summary
Asks CD’s advice on procuring rabbits for experiments [to test Pangenesis by transfusing alien blood into does and breeding from them].
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7026 |
From J. T. Moggridge 12 December 1869
Summary
Sends seeds of Lathyrus and suggests an advantage of climbing plants is to shed their seeds in places secure from animals.
Contrary to F. Delpino, in JTM’s experience Ophrys aranifera is not sterile. However, seed germination is poor.
In a densely overgrown plot Convolvulus sabatius, not normally a twiner, becomes one.
Continues his extensive study on variability in Arbutus, and speculates on selection in fruit shape.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7027 |
From Camille Dareste 13 December [1869]
Summary
CD’s letter on his behalf made a great impression, but his candidacy nevertheless failed, largely owing to the hostility of Claude Bernard. CD’s opinion sustains his belief that his work will be a service to science.
Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028 |
From Fritz Müller 18 December 1869
Summary
Discusses dimorphic and trimorphic plants; mentions especially Rubiaceae and a dimorphic monocotyledon.
Notes observations on the monstrous male flowers of Begonia,
and on self-sterile plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B125–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7029 |
From John Scott 21 December 1869
Summary
Observations on expression and variation in Asian peoples: when colour of beard and hair differ, beard is always lighter. Differences in swimming strokes. Polydactylism.
Has just sent Hooker a paper on Sikkim tree-ferns [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 (1875): 1–44, read 1870].
Has had fever since the end of the rains.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A106–6a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7030 |
To Francis Galton 23 December [1869]
Summary
Praises FG’s book [Hereditary genius (1869)]. CD is converted by its argument. Previously CD believed men did not differ much in intellect, but only in zeal and hard work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 23 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7032 |
From Francis Galton 24 December 1869
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7034 |
To Anton Dohrn 25 December 1869
Summary
Thanks AD for his work. CD regrets he is not a better German scholar, but he must endeavour to understand AD’s views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 25 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 696) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7035 |
From W. W. Reade 26 December 1869
Summary
Has seen some natives who express surprise by clapping the hand to mouth.
Reports on a tribe that sells its ugliest slaves in order to maintain its uniformly fine appearance.
In America in 1867 Darwinism was a fait accompli. Asa Gray’s religious defence unnecessary after Theodore Parker and Emerson.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7036 |
From L. E. Becker 29 December 1869
Summary
Asks CD to which journal she should send her Lychnis paper and whether she may quote extracts from his letters to her.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7037 |
From Anton Dohrn 30 December 1869
Summary
He has gone through the whole embryology of the Crustacea and has arrived at a pretty well-established genealogy of the whole class; has even tried to write a history of the whole tribe. Finds he cannot adopt the old separation of Orders in the Class; the limits between them are indistinct.
Would like to study embryology of Limulus. Asks CD’s help in obtaining a female specimen.
Outlines his proposal to establish a marine zoological station.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7038 |
From J. L. Sinclair 31 December 1869
Summary
Would like CD’s opinion on his "theory of organic disturbance" and his "law of organic combination"; hopes CD might notice them in the Academy.
Writes of his unfortunate circumstances.
Author: | James Leask Sinclair |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039 |
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Galton, Francis | (2) |
Bate, C. S. | (1) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
Boner, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
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Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
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Galton, Francis | (3) |
Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Bate, C. S. | (1) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
Boner, Charles | (1) |
D. Appleton & Co | (1) |
Dareste, Camille | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Layton, Charles | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
Reade, W. W. | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Sinclair, J. L. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |