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To William Bernhard Tegetmeier   5 February [1869]

Summary

Repeats request for information on colours of plumage of poultry breeds and asks for WBT’s facts on proportions of sexes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  5 Feb [1869]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6600

To J. V. Carus   5 February 1869

Summary

Thanks JVC for his information (from two correspondents) on the rate of growth of merino rams’ horns.

CD has been revising Origin [5th ed.]. Has found a good deal to alter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Victor Carus
Date:  5 Feb 1869
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 39–40)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6601

From Frederik Anthony von Hartsen   5 February 1869

Summary

Believes that species or genus may have originated more than once from separate ancestors, i.e., polyphyletically.

Discusses relation of CD’s theory to religion. Has written popular account of CD’s theory in Dutch [Darwin en de Godsdienst (1869)].

Author:  Frederik Anthony von Hartsen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 166: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6602

To James Croll   6 February [1869]

Summary

Consoling to CD that JC gives "a little more age to the world".

Cites article by Henry Moseley ["On the mechanical possibility of the descent of glaciers", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

Mentions article by A. R. Clarke on shape of the globe.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Croll
Date:  6 Feb [1869]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6603

From G. H. Darwin   6 February 1869

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Has inquired about magnetic storms. Any effect that could be produced by the sun’s energy in retarding the cooling of the earth would be utterly insignificant.

Tells of his visit to Eton.

Is uncertain about next steps to take for a legal career.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6604

From C. F. Claus   6 February 1869

Summary

Pleased by CD’s good opinion and offer to provide material. Discusses work he would do on cirripedes.

Moritz Wagner’s views on migration of species;

his doubts about Fritz Müller’s views on developmental stages of Crustacea.

Author:  Carl Friedrich Claus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 161: 177
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6605

To David Forbes   7 February [1869]

Summary

Asks for DF’s observations on the Aymara Indians for use in writing manuscript [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 34–5].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  David Forbes
Date:  7 Feb [1869]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6606

From John Lubbock   8 February 1869

Summary

Down School funds.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 170: 71
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6607

From J. D. Hooker   [25 January 1869]

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Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?

Social news.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25 Jan 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 8–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6608

From Georg Recht   9 February 1869

Summary

Sends MS. Asks CD to recommend it to a scientific society.

Author:  Georg Recht
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 176: 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6609

From Ferdinand Maria Malven   12 February [1869]

Summary

Librarian to the Board of Trade proposes a celebration of CD’s 60th birthday by the Vienna Free Press.

Author:  Ferdinand Maria Malven
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Feb [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6610

To F. M. Malven   [after 12 February 1869]

Summary

Honoured to be mentioned with Alexander von Humboldt, who was an inspiration to him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ferdinand Maria Malven
Date:  [after 12 Feb 1869]
Classmark:  Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), 4 March 1869, p. 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6610F

From Edward Wilson   12 February 1869

Summary

Returns a book on beavers borrowed from CD.

Author:  Edward Wilson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 181: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6611

To John Lubbock   [before 13 February 1869]

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Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [before 13 Feb 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6612

From John Lubbock   13 February [1869]

Summary

Down School funds.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Feb [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 170: 72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6613

From G. H. Darwin   14 February 1869

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Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].

Cambridge news.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6614

From Jean Jacques Moulinié   15 February 1869

Summary

Sends abstract of an article by Carrière [J. Agric. Pratique 1 (1869): 159–67] on the improvement of wild radish by selection.

Author:  Jean Jacques Moulinié
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 171: 272; DAR 193: 59–62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6615

From James Croll   15 February 1869

Summary

Thanks for abstract of Moseley’s paper on motion of glaciers [see 6599]. Reading it convinced him that Tyndall’s received view is wrong. Has formed a new view, which he has sent to Philosophical Magazine [4th ser. 37 (1869): 201–6].

Author:  James Croll
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 161: 264
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6616

To Eliza Meteyard   [18 February 1869]

Summary

CD signed the petition, had Sir Charles Lyell do so also, and then forwarded the memorial to Sir John Lubbock.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Eliza Meteyard
Date:  [18 Feb 1869]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6618

From Hugo Thiel   18 February 1869

Summary

Sends CD his pamphlet [Über Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften (1868)];

expresses his admiration for CD’s work.

Author:  Hugo Thiel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 178: 89
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6619
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