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To the Athenæum   19 June 1869

Summary

Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Athenæum
Date:  19 June 1869
Classmark:  Athenæum, 26 June 1869, p. 861
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6787

To ?   23 June 1869

Summary

[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  23 June 1869
Classmark:  The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6795

From W. W. Reade   28 June [1869]

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Horned rams of Guinea sheep.

CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 June [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 86: A32–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6260

From J. J. Weir   June 1869

Summary

Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.

Author:  John Jenner Weir
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 181: 80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6763

From William Buckler   [after 8 June 1869]

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List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].

Author:  William Buckler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 8 June 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 85: B127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6766

To Asa Gray   1 June [1869]

Summary

Thanks for answers about expression.

Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.

New edition of Origin.

French edition of Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  1 June [1869]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6767

To W. C. Tait   1 June [1869]

Summary

WCT should send specimens to Orpington Station.

Invites him to visit, but afraid conversation "would quite knock me up".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Chester Tait
Date:  1 June [1869]
Classmark:  Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6768

From James Crichton-Browne   1 June 1869

Summary

Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.

Author:  James Crichton-Browne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 161: 309
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6769

From George Cupples   [1 June 1869]

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Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.

Author:  George Cupples
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 June 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 85: B56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6770

To George Cupples   [after June 1869]

Summary

Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Cupples
Date:  [after June 1869]
Classmark:  Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (2013)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6770F

To Stephen Paul Engleheart   2 June [1869]

Summary

Asks about orbicular muscles in eyes of women suffering in labour.

Inquires about treatment for dyspeptic weakness involving "Volta-Electric Chain bands".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Stephen Paul Engleheart
Date:  2 June [1869]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.398)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6771

To Adolf Reuter   2 June 1869

Summary

Thanks AR for his offer to send his observation notes, but since CD will not pursue the subject of variation under domestication, and his German is poor, he urges him to publish them in some periodical.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Reuter
Date:  2 June 1869
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 222–223)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6772

To Joseph Henry Gilbert   3 June [1869]

Summary

Declines invitation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:  3 June [1869]
Classmark:  Rothamsted Research (GIL9.6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6773

From J. V. Carus   3 June 1869

Summary

Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 161: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6774

From J. D. Hooker   6 June 1869

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Account of his Russian trip.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 103: 14–17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6776

To John Traherne Moggridge   7 June 1869

Summary

Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.

CD’s riding accident.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Traherne Moggridge
Date:  7 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 146: 377
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6777

From Henry Walter Bates   8 June 1869

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Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]

Author:  Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 160: 87
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6778

To James Crichton-Browne   8 June 1869

Summary

Thanks for information about expression.

Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.

Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].

Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Crichton-Browne
Date:  8 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 143: 328
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6779

From George Swaysland   12 June 1869

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Observations on birds entering the country in spring. Some have clods of earth on their feet.

Author:  George Swaysland
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 205.2 (Letters): 252
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6780

From Max Schmidt   14 June 1869

Summary

Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.

Author:  Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 177: 57
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6781
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