To Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip [before 1 December 1867]
Summary
Sends, as corroboration of earlier articles on hedgehogs carrying fruit on their spines, a passage from a letter from R. Swinhoe [5598] describing hedgehogs carrying strawberries to their holes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip |
Date: | [before 1 Dec 1867] |
Classmark: | Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip 3 (1867): 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5702 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 1 December 1867
Summary
Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703 |
To H. J. Slack 2 December [1867]
Summary
Explains that he has made it a rule not to write for periodicals, however eminent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry James Slack |
Date: | 2 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Bruun Rasmussen (dealers) (March 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703F |
From Joseph Plimsoll 3 December 1867
Summary
A sermon.
Author: | Joseph Plimsoll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5704 |
From Julius von Haast 4 December 1867
Summary
JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].
Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 12; DAR 177: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5705 |
From Thomas Woolner 6 December 1867
Summary
Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.
Author: | Thomas Woolner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5707 |
To Charles Lyell 7 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses transport of frog spawn and young molluscs by birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.337) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5708 |
From Edward Wilson 7 December 1867
Summary
Wants to catch some queen bees to ship to Australia; wonders whether CD’s sons can help.
Author: | Edward Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5709 |
To Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther 7 December [1867]
Summary
Sends his photograph.
Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 7 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5710 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 8 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks CD for information on inclined terraces in S. America, which DM thinks applies to the chalk downs of S. England. CD’s definition that the sea widens and fresh water deepens is key to the subject.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5711 |
From W. S. Dallas 8 December 1867
Summary
Some corrections and queries about Variation text. Is pushing hard to finish, but CD is right that the names in the notes make the work interminable. Fears he is causing delay in publication. Is astonished at "the wonderful array of facts brought together and at the manner in which you bring them to bear".
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5712 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 9 December [1867]
Summary
Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.
Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.338) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5713 |
To J. P. M. Weale 9 December [1867]
Summary
Has had no less than seven grasses germinate from locust dung sent by JPMW.
JPMW’s paper on Bonatea is being printed by Linnean Society. [See J. P. M. Weale, "Structure and fertilisation of the genus Bonatea", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6.]
Refers to Lyell’s new edition of Principles [10th ed., 2 vols. (1867–8)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5714 |
To the Linnean Society 9 December [1867]
Summary
Gives his comments on the merits of a paper on South African botany [by J. P. M. Weale, "Notes on Bonatea", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, SP1249, 1253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5715 |
From John Lubbock 9 December [1867]
Summary
Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5716 |
To Herbert Spencer 9 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks for copy of HS’s First principles [? 2d ed. (1867)].
Comments on HS’s Principles of biology [1864, 1867].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 485a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5717 |
From Francis Walker 9 December 1867
Summary
The horns and spines of homopterous insects do not vary between sexes. Sexual differences in Blattidae.
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A48–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5718 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 9 December [1867]
Summary
Asks for name of the birds that have only once obtained summer plumage.
Wishes he could persuade ADB to experiment to see whether bower-birds prefer gay colours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5719 |
From A. D. Bartlett 9 December 1867
Author: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5720 |
To St George Jackson Mivart 9 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks for his memoir ["On the appendicular skeleton of the Primates"].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 and 22 July 1988, pp. 212–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5720A |
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Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Dallas, W. S. | (4) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Mackintosh, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (45) |
Dallas, W. S. | (4) |
Günther, Albert | (4) |
Bartlett, A. D. | (2) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (2) |