From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
From W. E. Darwin [13 April 1868]
Summary
Action of facial muscles at onset of crying.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5965 |
From W. E. Darwin [7–15 April 1868]
Summary
Langstaff has never seen the platysma act, and he believes it to be rudimentary in humans.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7–15 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 80/4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6076 |
From Frederick F. Geach April 1868
Summary
Sends expanded answers [to Queries about expression], in view of CD’s statement that his first list had not been sufficiently explanatory. Is pleased that some answers confirmed CD’s views [see Expression, passim].
Author: | Frederick F. Geach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6077 |
From J. J. Weir [before 28 April] 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in chaffinches.
Pugnacity of blackbirds and robins.
Harrison Weir reports up to nine eggs in starling nests.
Newspaper report of a sheep born with its owner’s brand.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 Apr] 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: C1–2, DAR 84.1: 73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6078 |
From William Bowman 1 April [1868]
Summary
Asks for precise reference in Charles Bell to subject of CD’s question. Agrees to assist CD’s investigation. Asks about Bell’s observations on eyes engorged with blood. Has noticed that eyes of children with excessive photophobia tend to be pale when forced open.
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 268 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6079 |
From G. H. K. Thwaites 1 April 1868
Summary
Has circulated CD’s Queries about expression and gives some of his observations of the natives.
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6080 |
From George Robert Gray 2 April 1868
Author: | George Robert Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 90–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6082 |
From Robert Caspary 2 April 1868
Summary
Finds important differences between English and German versions of Variation on graft-hybrids.
Experiments and observations on submerged flowers.
Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6083 |
From Henry Doubleday 3 April 1868
Summary
Otto Staudinger’s catalogue shows prices of female Lepidoptera to be higher than those of males.
Author: | Henry Doubleday |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 78, DAR 82: A8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6087 |
From Camille Dareste 3 April 1868
Summary
Thanks for Variation.
CD must be happy about the tendency toward acceptance of his views, though it is regrettable that France is backward in this regard.
His own work goes slowly, but he still hopes his work on artificially produced monstrosities will help to answer the question of the origin of species.
Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6088 |
From Edward Blyth [3 April 1868]
Summary
Discusses apes and their relationships to each other. Writes particularly of the gibbon, its structure and well-developed legs giving it the ability to walk without using its hands.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 29, DAR 83: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089 |
From Fritz Müller 3 April 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him copy of Variation.
Describes results of his brother’s [August Müller] experiments on effect of climate on maize.
Like ancestors of horses, young tapir is also striped.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089A |
From W. E. Darwin 3 April 1868
Summary
Discusses how they might enquire about any provisions in the laws of partnership concerning lunacy.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089F |
From M. T. Masters 4 April 1868
Summary
MTM did not write Gardeners’ Chronicle review of Variation [(1868): 184].
Encloses letters supporting a project [Botanical Congress?] to promote horticulture, and hopes CD will reconsider giving his support.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6092 |
From J. J. Weir 5 April 1868
Summary
George Rolleston’s son was born with a scar on his knee exactly where GR cut himself with a knife years before his marriage. Gives several other examples of inherited mutilation.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6093 |
From Edward Blyth 5 April 1868
Summary
Discusses the human foot and its abnormalities; notes an example of syndactylism.
Gives his observations on sexual differences in coloration of terns and ostriches.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 136, DAR 160: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6094 |
From F. T. Buckland 6 April [1868]
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 363 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6096 |
From St George Jackson Mivart 6 April 1868
Summary
Has asked gentlemen who administer chloroform to make observations [on expression?] for CD.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 April 1868
Summary
Goes to N. Wales with Huxley.
Wishes to borrow Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law.
The BAAS Presidential Address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv] – his unhappiness about it; history of botany requires too much reading.
Smith will supply notes on Euryale.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 208–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6099 |
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Bate, C. S. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Binstead, C. H. | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Boccardo, Gerolamo | (1) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Canestrini, Giovanni | (1) |
Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Clarke, R. T. | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Dareste, Camille | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
Engelmann, Theodor | (1) |
Faivre, Ernest | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
Geach, F. F. | (1) |
Gray, G. R. | (2) |
Grove, W. R. | (1) |
Hellins, John | (1) |
Henslow, George | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Howell, W. G. | (1) |
Langstaff, Charles | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Samuelson, James | (1) |
Smith, John (c) | (1) |
Thurber, George | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Weir, J. J. | (6) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |