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
Summary
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]
Summary
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]
Summary
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
Summary
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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