To Henry Denny 23 March [1865]
Summary
Interested by HD’s information on aperea; CD had concluded that it was not the progenitor of domestic guinea-pigs.
Is unsure what HD means by "stock-dove"; properly this is Columba oenas and the domestic pigeon is C. livia.
Suggests that the Zoological Society might arrange for some specimens [unspecified] to be supplied from the Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 23 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2435 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 [March 1865]
Summary
Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 [Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4779 |
From Frederick Ransome 6 March 1865
Author: | Frederick Ransome |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4780 |
From Frederick Ransome 9 March 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his consideration in meeting his convenience respecting the payment of the £100.
Author: | Frederick Ransome |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4781 |
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1865]
Summary
Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4782 |
From Rudolph Heine 10 March 1865
Summary
Admires Origin, but CD does not consider hereditary law of use and disuse.
Author: | Rudolph Heine |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4783 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865
Summary
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4785 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
To Rudolph Heine 16 March [1865]
Summary
Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolph Heine |
Date: | 16 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786F |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [March 1865]
Summary
Thanks for Thomson’s and JDH’s views on Scott’s paper. Will send it back with advice and explanations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 264 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4788 |
From Francis Trevelyan Buckland 18 March 1865
Summary
Introduces Cholmondely Pennell of the Admiralty, who wants to speak to CD about a literary matter.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4789 |
From George Stewardson Brady 19 March 1865
Summary
CD’s statement in Origin that clover is utterly dependent on humble-bee for fertilisation has been questioned by his friend’s evidence of visits by other insects. Asks CD’s opinion.
Author: | George Stewardson Brady |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4790 |
To Frank Buckland 21 March [1865]
Summary
Has heard from Mr Pennell, and written to say too ill to see him. Would like to hear about skin between toes of otter hounds in comparison with other hounds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 21 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (8–9 April 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4790F |
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
From H. W. Bates 22 March 1865
Summary
Expresses pleasure at signs of CD’s recovery.
HWB’s work on the identification of species of the genus Colobthea; relates the large number of modifications that occur in the sexual organs of closely allied species. Does not doubt that this contributes greatly to multiplication of species in nature.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4792 |
From Edward Perceval Wright 24 March 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.
Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.
Author: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4793 |
To E. P. Wright 26 March [1865]
Summary
Thanks for fact about the buffalo diving.
Asks whether the animal was a Bos or a Bubalus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 26 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4793F |
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 27 March 1865
Summary
Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].
Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4796 |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Ransome, Frederick | (2) |
Wright, E. P. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Denny, Henry | (1) |
Heine, Rudolph | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (6) |
Wright, E. P. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Buckland, Frank | (2) |