To Alfred Newton 2 January 1877
Summary
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10766 |
From Alfred Newton 1 April 1879
Summary
Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11965 |
To Alfred Newton 2 April [1879]
Summary
"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."
Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970 |
From Alfred Newton 29 October 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for the reference to Audubon’s story. T. M. Brewer is to be trusted, but his account does not suggest why the bird always moved northward.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13441 |
From Alfred Newton 21 March 1863
Summary
Sends tuber of Chilean wild potato, requested through Hooker and P. L. Sclater.
Plans to exhibit a bird’s foot with a large ball of clay attached. This phenomenon supports CD on seed dispersal.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4054 |
From Alfred Newton 31 October 1863
Summary
Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4326 |
To Alfred Newton 24 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.
Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4435 |
To Alfred Newton 29 March [1864]
Summary
Eighty-two plants have germinated from earth on wounded partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 29 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4440 |
From Alfred Newton 2 April 1864
Summary
Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4446 |
To Alfred Newton 6 April [1864]
Summary
CD has thrown away injured partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 6 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453 |
From Alfred Newton 7 April 1864
Summary
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4456 |
From Alfred Newton 27 October 1865
Summary
Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4925 |
To Alfred Newton 29 October [1865]
Summary
Declines writing testimonial for AN for the Cambridge Professorship in Zoology. The post requires expertise in comparative anatomy and histology, whereas AN’s work is on habits and colours of birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 29 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4926 |
From Alfred Newton 30 October 1865
Summary
CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4927 |
From Alfred Newton 27 November 1866
Summary
Thanks for new edition of Origin [4th ed.].
Has met CD’s son [George] at Trinity College.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5285 |
To Alfred Newton 19 January [1867]
Summary
Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 19 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5371 |
From Alfred Newton 21 January 1867
Summary
Suggests that, in some birds, plumage of males is less colourful than that of females; the reason is that the males perform the duties of incubation [see Descent 2: 204 n.].
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 22–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5374 |
To Alfred Newton 23 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 23 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376A |
From Alfred Newton 1 March 1867
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5426 |
To Alfred Newton 4 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about the dotterel.
CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5430 |
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