To Adolf Reuter 15 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks AR for specimens of fruit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
Date: | 15 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 220–221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7079 |
To Albert Günther 16 January [1870]
Summary
Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 16 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7080 |
To Richard Kippist 16 January [1870 or 1871]
Summary
Requests the return of some plates sent in error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 16 Jan [1870-1] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7081 |
From Henry Walter Bates 17 January 1870
Summary
Returns CD’s MS [of entomological section of Descent] marked with suggested alterations.
Suggests qualifications about rudimentary horn in female Onitis furcifer [See Descent 1: 372].
Sends additional data on colour differences in sexes of longicorn Coleoptera [See Descent 1: 367–8].
Suggests a modification of CD’s view of female coloration that would bring him "nearly into harmony" with Wallace.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7082 |
To Charles Boner 20 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks CB for Transylvania [1865].
CD’s health has declined steadily. He must now be content to read about nature as described by CB and others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Boner |
Date: | 20 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 203–204) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7083 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 21 January 1870
Summary
Refers to "Devonshire Man"’s attack on him ["Professor Huxley’s last new theory", Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Jan 1870, p. 6]. His intention to answer – a waste, except for political bearing of Celt question ["Professor Huxley on Celts and Teutons", Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan 1870, p. 6].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7084 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1870
Summary
Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B90–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7085 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 January [1870]
Summary
Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7086 |
From John Brodie Innes 28 January 1870
Summary
JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7087 |
From William Turner 3 January 1870
Summary
On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].
Author: | William Turner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B158–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088 |
To James Crichton-Browne 31 January [1870]
Summary
Asks JC-B to return copy of Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] and sends some notes "as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 31 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7089 |
From George Howard Darwin [1 February 1870 or earlier]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7090 |
From G. H. Darwin [3 February 1870 or earlier]
Summary
Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Feb 1870 or earlier] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7091 |
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1870
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7093 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
From G. H. Darwin [4 February 1870]
Summary
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7096 |
To the American Philosophical Society 5 February 1870
Summary
Sends thanks for election to American Philosophical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | American Philosophical Society. |
Date: | 5 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.378) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7097 |
From Berry Benson 9 February 1870
Summary
Compliments Origin.
Sends extract about a waterplant to illustrate CD’s points about the means of dispersal in geographical distribution.
Author: | Berry Benson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7099 |
To Alfred Newton 9 February [1870]
Summary
Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 9 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7100 |
From George P. Bissell 10 February 1870
Author: | George P. Bissell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 261 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7101 |
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