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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Alfred Newton 29 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for present [of Variation].
Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 186: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5810 |
From Alfred Newton 9 April 1869
Summary
Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.
Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6694 |
From Alfred Newton 11 February 1870
Summary
Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.
He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7103 |
From Alfred Newton 29 May 1871
Summary
[Reference to Japanese nuthatch (see Descent, 2d ed., p. 410 n.) excised from letter.]
Sorry they will not have Frank Darwin with them any more.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7778 |
From Alfred Newton 10 March 1874
Summary
Questions correctness of two statements in Origin: 1. That fulmar petrels are the most numerous birds in the world;
2. That the increase of one form of thrush in Scotland has been concomitant with the decline of another form.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9348 |
From Alfred Newton 13 March 1874
Summary
Wishes CD could publish Origin with footnotes.
Increases in bird populations: starlings are increasing, but AN cannot give reason; mistletoe-thrush increasing but not ousting song-thrush. Doubts trustworthiness of [George?] Edwards, CD’s authority in Origin on this matter [see Origin, 6th ed., p. 59].
AN opposed to bird protection legislation to prohibit egging. Argues egging does not decrease number of birds.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9358 |
From Alfred Newton 15 March 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for his opinion on egging. Despite the intensity of the practice sufficient eggs always remain to carry on the breed.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9364 |