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From Daniel Mackintosh   1 December 1867

Summary

Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.

Author:  Daniel Mackintosh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 171: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5703

From Joseph Plimsoll   3 December 1867

Summary

A sermon.

Author:  Joseph Plimsoll
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 174: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5704

From Julius von Haast   4 December 1867

Summary

JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].

Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.

Author:  John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 166: 12; DAR 177: 243
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5705

From Thomas Woolner   6 December 1867

Summary

Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.

Author:  Thomas Woolner
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 181: 160
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5707

From Edward Wilson   7 December 1867

Summary

Wants to catch some queen bees to ship to Australia; wonders whether CD’s sons can help.

Author:  Edward Wilson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 181: 121
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5709

From Daniel Mackintosh   8 December [1867]

Summary

Thanks CD for information on inclined terraces in S. America, which DM thinks applies to the chalk downs of S. England. CD’s definition that the sea widens and fresh water deepens is key to the subject.

Author:  Daniel Mackintosh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5711

From W. S. Dallas   8 December 1867

Summary

Some corrections and queries about Variation text. Is pushing hard to finish, but CD is right that the names in the notes make the work interminable. Fears he is causing delay in publication. Is astonished at "the wonderful array of facts brought together and at the manner in which you bring them to bear".

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 162: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5712

From John Lubbock   9 December [1867]

Summary

Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 170: 60
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5716

From Francis Walker   9 December 1867

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The horns and spines of homopterous insects do not vary between sexes. Sexual differences in Blattidae.

Author:  Francis Walker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 82: A48–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5718

From A. D. Bartlett   9 December 1867

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On the summer, or breeding, plumage of birds.

Author:  Abraham Dee Bartlett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 84.1: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5720

From J. P. M. Weale   [10 December 1867]

Summary

On expression among Kaffirs.

Author:  James Philip Mansel Weale
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [10 Dec 1867]
Classmark:  DAR 181: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5722

From W. S. Dallas   10 December 1867

Summary

WSD is pushing forward as fast as he can with [index to] second volume [of Variation]. The work is fearfully heavy.

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 162: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5723

From W. S. Dallas   11 December 1867

Summary

Regrets that the remarks in his letter [5712] seemed to CD to be criticisms. Nothing was further from his intention. He is working hard. "The subjects often seem to elude the Index-maker."

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 162: 7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5725

From Andrew Murray   13 December 1867

Summary

Will return Federico Delpino’s two pamphlets soon.

Author:  Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 171: 330
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5728

From Charles Kingsley   11 December 1867

Summary

CK is drawn into discussions of Darwinism everywhere in Cambridge. The climate has changed in the past three years: the younger M.A.s are greedy to know more and the criticism of the older Fellows has a new tone.

Author:  Charles Kingsley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 169: 38
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5730

From J. D. Hooker   17 December 1867

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Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.

Woolner comes on Sunday morning.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 102: 186
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5731

From Joseph Plimsoll   17 December 1867

Summary

A sermon.

Author:  Joseph Plimsoll
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 174: 54
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5732

From A. C. L. G. Günther   19 December 1867

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Sexual differences in reptiles, especially Indian [see A. Günther, The reptiles of British India (1864)].

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 82: B72–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5733

From A. C. L. G. Günther   [late December 1867 or early January 1868]

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The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [late Dec 1867 or early Jan 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 82: B75
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5734

From Henry Holland   21 December [1867]

Summary

Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.

Author:  Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 166: 247
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5736
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