From C. S. Bate 1 March 1869
Summary
On hybridism between the fox and dog; asks whether CD knows of a reliable case of offspring from this cross.
Does CD want details on a white cat with blue eyes, but not deaf?
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6637 |
From Edward Blyth 1 March 1869
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6638 |
From W. C. Tait 2 March 1869
Summary
Sends a single specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum with description from F. de Avellar Brotero’s Flora Lusitanica [1804].
Discusses Portuguese ferns,
inherited mutilation,
and the earth’s geological history.
Evolution of behaviour and beauty by natural selection.
Author: | William Chester Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 18a–f |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6639 |
From T. C. Eyton 4 March 1869
Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6641 |
From T. R. R. Stebbing 5 March 1869
Summary
Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".
Author: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6643 |
From W. C. Tait 5 March 1869
Summary
Is forwarding potted specimens of Drosophyllum.
Will make inquiries about sheep.
Author: | William Chester Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6644 |
From A. R. Wallace 10 March 1869
Summary
Weir’s paper on relation of protection to colour of caterpillars [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6; (1870): 337–9] confirms ARW’s hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6651 |
From Henry Landor 10 March 1869
Summary
Suggests that ground ice, in Canada and similar countries, is a mode of distribution of boulders and animal and vegetable life.
Author: | Henry Landor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6652 |
From T. H. Huxley 11 March 1869
Summary
Nothing new in Lushington’s letter. Two paragraphs are offensive – that THH sought to stir up Scotch Presbyterian prejudices against Comte at Edinburgh and that he had not read Comte.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6654 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 March 1869
Summary
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6655 |
From Georg Recht 1 March 1869
Summary
Thanks for money, which will enable him to complete publication. Explains principles of his physiological theory.
Author: | Georg Recht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6656 |
From George Cupples 11 March 1869
Summary
Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6657 |
From Fritz Müller 14 March 1869
Summary
Describes experiments with sterility in Abutilon.
Describes hermaphroditism in a wild Begonia in Brazil.
Has been observing humble bees on Salvia.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP 859) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6662F |
From Ernest Faivre 15 March 1869
Summary
EF is seeking a French editor for Orchids [1870]. Introduces L. Rérolle, his student. [See 6667.]
Author: | Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6663 |
From T. H. Huxley 17 March 1869
Summary
Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6665 |
From Louis Rérolle 17 March 1869
Summary
LR undertakes translation of Orchids [1870]. Awaits CD’s new footnotes and intends to look at every flower CD mentions.
Author: | Louis Rérolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6667 |
From C. F. Claus 19 March 1869
Summary
The cirripede material mentioned in CD’s letter of 10 Feb has not arrived. [Asks CD to inquire of Williams and Norgate, who forwarded it.]
Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6671 |
From Samuel Owen Glenie 20 March 1869
Summary
His observations of the chickens hatched from eggs of an isolated pair of pure-bred black-boned fowl. Nine were black-boned, two were like ordinary fowl.
Quotes a Mr Holdsworth on unusual expressions of Singhalese and Tamils in pointing and beckoning.
Author: | Samuel Owen Glenie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6675 |
From W. T. Preyer 21 March 1869
Summary
Has given a lecture series on Darwinism which was attended by 200–500 students.
Would like to compile a list of CD’s works.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6676 |
From Karl von Seidlitz 22 March 1869
Summary
Mentions his publication [Die Bildungsgesetze der Vogeleier (1869)].
Comments on importance of heredity for evolution.
Author: | Karl Johann (Karl) von Seidlitz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6678 |
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Darwin, C. R. | |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Tait, W. C. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Bate, C. S. | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Claus, C. F. | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Faivre, Ernest | (1) |
Glenie, S. O. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Landor, Henry | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Preyer, William | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Recht, Georg | (1) |
Rérolle, Louis | (1) |
Seidlitz, Karl von | (1) |
Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
Weir, H. W. | (1) |
Wilckens, Martin | (1) |