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From [C. P.]   29 April 1864

Summary

On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.

Author:  Unidentified
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Apr 1864
Classmark:  DAR 174: 1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4476

From H. C. Watson   [16 May 1864]

Summary

Cover containing some seeds mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (S 4512).

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [16 May 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 142: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13891H

From Francis Trevelyan Buckland   [before 11 December 1864]

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Salmon and trout increase in size with river.

Wishes to show CD fish hatchery near Hampton Court.

Quoted CD’s book on self-destruction within species in a salmon arbitration case.

Author:  Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 11 Dec 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 358
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4363

From E. A. Darwin   [after 31 March 1864?]

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Sends "2 pods ¼ gr each" to tide CD over.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 31 Mar 1864?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4364

From Erasmus Alvey Darwin   [1864?]

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Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1864?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4365

From William Jenner   [after 24 November] 1864

Summary

CD’s urine is normal. He may take antacids for his stomach.

Author:  William Jenner
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 24 Nov] 1864
Classmark:  DAR 168: 48
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4367

From W. E. Darwin   [after 19 May 1864]

Summary

[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from a red cowslip.]

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 19 May 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 108: 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4369

From Ernst Haeckel   2 January 1864

Summary

Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].

Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 166: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4377

From A. R. Wallace   2 January 1864

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Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells

and Origin.

Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.

Work problems.

His butterfly collection.

Problems with book on Malay journey.

Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.

Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.

Author:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 106: B8–11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4378

From E. A. Darwin   5 January [1864]

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Calls CD’s attention to an article by Paul Janet.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Jan [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B21–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4379

From Charles Spence Bate   6 January 1864

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Asks CD’s opinion on the accuracy of stating that barley and wheat are different varieties of the same species.

Author:  Charles Spence Bate
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 160: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4380

From John Scott   7 January [1864]

Summary

Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].

Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4382

From John Lubbock   10 January 1864

Summary

JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 170: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4384

From John Scott   [13 January 1864]

Summary

Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.

Sends promised Linum seeds.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 Jan 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4385

From John Scott   12 [February 1864]

Summary

Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.

Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].

J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.

Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 [Feb 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4386

From Thomas Henry Huxley   16 January 1864

Summary

Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 166: 300
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4388

From Robert Goodwin Mumbray   18 January 1864

Summary

Has verified J. M. Bechstein’s contention that species of finches hybridise.

Quotes Thomas Bewick’s observations on hybrids between pheasants and common fowl. RGM had often noticed so-called "pheasant fowl", but thought it was a foreign bird.

Author:  Robert Goodwin Mumbray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 171: 318–318/1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4392

From Charles Parker   18 January 1864

Summary

Collecting subscriptions for a school at Ford.

Author:  Charles Parker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 174: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4393

From Hermann Crüger   21 January 1864

Summary

Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.

CD was right about Catasetum sexes.

Ficus experiments fail.

Author:  Hermann Crüger
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 161: 278
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4394

From J. D. Hooker   24 January 1864

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JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.

Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.

Huxley grows fat.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 176–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4396
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