To William Erasmus Darwin 17 February [1861]
Summary
Sends cheque.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers (RL.11684): Lady Jeanie Lucinda Musgrave (Field) Scrapbook) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2415 |
To Frederick Temple [c. 28 February 1861]
Summary
Regret that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other English Bishops have severely censured Essays and Reviews [1860]. Believe "such enquiries conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential … must tend to elicit truth, and to foster a spirit of sound religion". [Signed by CD, numerous men of science, and others.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Temple |
Date: | [c. 28 Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | H. G. Hutchinson 1914, 1: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2628 |
To John Lubbock [before 5 February 1861]
Summary
Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [before 5 Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3038 |
From Francis Walker 1 February 1861
Summary
Identifies two dipterous species of parasites [chalcidites].
Was not able to attend to the aphids last year, but will make use of CD’s suggestions and "study as much as I can the inquiry as to species".
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2 (ser. 3): 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3053 |
To Charles Lyell 2 February [1861]
Summary
Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3054 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 3 February [1861]
Summary
Is obliged for WBT’s "curious case". Discusses the effects of castration on development.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3055 |
To Jeffries Wyman 3 February [1861]
Summary
Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.
Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.
Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?
Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3056 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 February [1861]
Summary
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3057 |
From William A. Wooler 4 February 1861
Summary
Discusses the colouring of the young of various breeds of rabbit.
Observations on results of various poultry crosses and on a character which is linked to sex.
Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3058 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3060 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 9 February 1861]
Summary
Discusses the possible explanation of why fly-orchid plants in a correspondent’s garden had no pollen-masses removed while Orchis maculata had all of its pollen-masses removed. CD points out that different orchids are fertilised by different insects. The insects needed to fertilise the fly-orchid may not have inhabited the site of the correspondent’s garden.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 9 Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 9 February 1861, p. 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061 |
To Richard Kippist 13 February [1861?]
Summary
Gives notice of returning books by a carrier and thanks for assistance.
Asks whether Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville’s Ostéographie (1839–64) includes rabbits or hares.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 13 Feb [1861?] |
Classmark: | James Lowe Autographs (dealer) (Cat. 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061A |
To Thomas Salt 9 February [1861]
Summary
Asks for advice about the mortgage to Major Owen for £20,000.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 9 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061F |
To Leonard Horner 14 February [1861]
Summary
Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are preserved by natural selection if beneficial.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | 14 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3062 |
To Williams & Norgate 16 February [1861]
Summary
Wishing to purchase a copy of Ferguson’s illustrated series of rare and prize poultry, including comprehensive essays upon all classes of domestic fowl (Ferguson 1854).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (14 June 2018, Lot 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3062F |
To T. H. Huxley 17 February [1861]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin: A. Gray asks that THH append a list of philosophical books on subject if he accepts it for Natural History Review.
Sends Gray’s pamphlet of his (republished) reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] for notice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 169) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063 |
To Thomas Salt 17 February [1861]
Summary
Thanks for information about Major Owen’s mortgage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063F |
To Asa Gray 17 February [1861]
Summary
Distribution of AG’s pamphlet.
Insectivorous plants.
Informs AG of his [CD’s] notice on Pumilio in Gardeners’ Chronicle [5 Jan 1861; Collected papers 2: 36–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3064 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [February 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 [Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3065 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 February [1861]
Summary
Invites Mrs Huxley and the children to spend a fortnight at Down.
MS of Chauncey Wright’s review has not yet arrived.
[P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 157); DAR 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3066 |
letter | (29) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Walker, Francis | (1) |
Wooler, W. A. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Kippist, Richard | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Kippist, Richard | (2) |
Salt, Thomas | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Geikie, Archibald | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Lamont, James | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murray, Andrew | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Temple, Frederick | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Walker, Francis | (1) |
Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Wooler, W. A. | (1) |
Wyman, Jeffries | (1) |