To Alfred Newton 2 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10766 |
To Alfred Newton 2 April [1879]
Summary
"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."
Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970 |
To Alfred Newton 24 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.
Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4435 |
To Alfred Newton 29 March [1864]
Summary
Eighty-two plants have germinated from earth on wounded partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 29 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4440 |
To Alfred Newton 6 April [1864]
Summary
CD has thrown away injured partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 6 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453 |
To Alfred Newton 29 October [1865]
Summary
Declines writing testimonial for AN for the Cambridge Professorship in Zoology. The post requires expertise in comparative anatomy and histology, whereas AN’s work is on habits and colours of birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 29 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4926 |
To Alfred Newton 19 January [1867]
Summary
Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 19 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5371 |
To Alfred Newton 23 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 23 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376A |
To Alfred Newton 4 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about the dotterel.
CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5430 |
To Alfred Newton 27 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for corrections of errors [in Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 27 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5941 |
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
To Alfred Newton [22 May 1870]
Summary
Intends to see Adam Sedgwick.
Arranges to meet AN.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | [22 May 1870] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7199 |
To Alfred Newton 30 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks AN for facts and corrections [for Descent].
The case of the gull must come out [Descent 2: 108 n. 9]. "Oh Lord, how difficult accuracy is!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 30 May [1871] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7781 |
To Alfred Newton 9 March [1874]
Summary
Asks AN to vote for CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, at the Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 9 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9344 |
To Alfred Newton 12 March [1874]
Summary
Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.
Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".
In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 12 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9354 |
To Alfred Newton 14 March 1874
Summary
Can give no definite information. Believes severe winters are by far the most important check on numbers of birds; the destruction of eggs is of subordinate importance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 14 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9359 |