From Daniel Oliver [15–16 October 1860]
Summary
Extracts from botanical literature dealing with Dionaea, intercrossing, and sensitivity. [Bot. Ztg. (1833): 96; Thomas Nuttall, Genera of N. American plants (1818)].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15–16 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2623 |
From Thomas Bridges [October 1860 or later]
Summary
Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.
| Author: | Thomas Bridges |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Oct 1860 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2643 |
From H. G. Bronn 13 [or 15] October 1860
Summary
Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?
Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.
Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.
| Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 317 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2934 |
From Charles Lyell [after 3 October 1860]
Summary
CD would have carried the public more if he had explained adaptations by multiple causes, some unknown and some well known, i.e., natural selection.
Discusses Hooker’s views of extinction on St Helena.
Work on antiquity of man suspended.
Stopped by 11th edition of Principles of geology [1872].
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 397 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2937 |
From Charles Lyell 6 October 1860
Summary
Wonders why the coracoid bone in the flightless Apteryx is so large when the clavicles are reduced. The clavicles are even separate in the ostrich. The large coracoid in reptiles is explained by the connection to the forelimbs.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2940A |
From W. H. Harvey 8 October 1860
Summary
Thanks CD for his patience and good-nature; does not want a controversial correspondence but wishes to reply to matters in CD’s letter, and does.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 54–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2943 |
From James Drummond 8 October 1860
Summary
Observations of Brunonia and a case of a malvaceous flower, which never opened and was self-fertilised.
| Author: | James Drummond |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162.2: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2944 |
From Robert Patterson 18 October 1860
Summary
Sends an account of the destruction of wild rabbits by rats introduced from a wrecked ship.
| Author: | Robert Patterson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 89–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2954 |
From Benjamin Silliman Jr 27 October 1860
Summary
On the suggestion of Jeffries Wyman, he writes about the rats that he captured in Mammoth Cave in 1850. They were indeed blind. Reginald Mantell studied them and learned that with long exposure to graduated light, they became somewhat sensitised. Sends copy of an abstract which he wrote as a letter to A. H. Guyot ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. Journal of Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 11 (1851)]. [See 3007.]
| Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with Silliman 1851) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2966B |
From Edward Cresy 30 October 1860
Summary
Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2968 |
From John Medows Rodwell 31 October 1860
Summary
Observations on his white blue-eyed cat. There is no sign of deafness.
Apropos of ch. 5 of Origin, tells of blind rats found when a Roman bridge was excavated.
| Author: | John Medows Rodwell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 167–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2970 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 23 October 1860]
Summary
Quotes note by Julius Milde on Drosera rotundifolia from Botanische Zeitung (1852): 540.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 23 Oct 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2971 |
| letter | (12) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Bridges, Thomas (b) | (1) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Bridges, Thomas (b) | (1) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Drummond, James (a) | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Patterson, Robert | (1) |
| Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
