To George Rolleston 2 March [1861]
Summary
Agrees with GR’s remarks on Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
New edition of Origin to appear immediately.
Fact of clubbed fingernails in cyanosis quite new to CD. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 2 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3076 |
To George Rolleston 7 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks for explanation of cyanosis and clubbed nails.
Hopes GR will work out point about mucus tubes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 7 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.6119/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3083 |
To George Rolleston 5 September [1861]
Summary
GR’s letter is a gold-mine.
Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs
and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.
Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 5 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3245 |
From George Rolleston 16 April 1861
Summary
Index of Origin does not refer to variability of rudimentary organs mentioned at pp. 149, 168. Offers references to Rudolf Leuckart and to Franz von Leydig to support CD’s point.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3120 |
From George Rolleston 1 September 1861
Summary
The embryology of the vertebrate nervous system may be an exception to the law of inheritance at corresponding ages.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3241 |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Rolleston, George | (2) |