To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 August [1859]
Summary
Has an astonishing lot of mongrel poultry and expects next generation to approach Gallus bankiva in red-brown plumage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 5 Aug [1859] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2479 |
To Richard Hill 8 August [1859]
Summary
Compares Jamaican with British and European honey combs.
Requests one-half dozen dead bees and 2 or 3 drones from Mr Wilkie’s stock.
His admiration for RH’s varied accomplishments and service "in the sacred cause of humanity" [the abolition of slavery].
Asks whether it is believed that domestic animals long bred in Jamaica tend to assume a particular colour or character.
Are differences observed in the West Indies in the liability of pure Europeans of light complexion and hair to take the yellow fever or other tropical complaints?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Hill |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1859] |
| Classmark: | Cundall 1915 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2479A |
To A. R. Wallace 9 August 1859
Summary
Will forward ARW’s "admirable" paper to Linnean Society ["On the zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 4 (1860): 172–84].
Discusses geographical distribution of animals in the Malay Archipelago; relation of distribution to depth of sea between islands.
Relation of Celebes to Africa almost passes belief.
Differs wholly from ARW on colonisation of oceanic islands; does not believe in Forbes’s great continental extensions.
Anticipates Owen’s opposition to their views, but "he is a poor reasoner & deeply considers the good opinion of the world, especially the aristocratic world".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1859 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2480 |
To Adam Sedgwick 24 August [1859]
Summary
Sorry to hear of AS’s poor health.
Would like to attend Aberdeen meeting [BAAS, 1859] but is unfit for so great an exertion. Has been told he has "suppressed gout".
Pleased that AS remembers their 1831 geological trip, which made CD appreciate the noble science of geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1859] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2482 |
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Summary
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2483 |
To John Murray 31 August [1859]
Summary
Sheets [of Origin] up to p. 240 are ready. Asks how many copies and how soon JM will publish. Hopes as soon as possible because of his health. Bitterly disappointed at delay he has caused.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.58–59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2484 |
From E. A. Darwin 15 August [1859 or later]
Summary
Wonders whether CD would be interested in a book by Dr Bucknell [J. C. Bucknill?] on psychology.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1859 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7301 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hill, Richard | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hill, Richard | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
