To ? 6 April [1869–71]
Summary
"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .
I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1869-71] |
| Classmark: | L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098A |
To Benjamin Dann Walsh 3 April [1869]
Summary
Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.
Interested in galls
and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5482 |
To Richard Spruce 1 April 1869
Summary
RS’s facts are remarkable. A year or two ago CD would not have believed ants could produce an inherited effect, but he has "lately come to believe rather more in inherited mutations". However, CD is not satisfied that the sacs are inherited and urges RS to produce any other evidence he might have.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Spruce |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | Spruce 1908, 2: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6691 |
To W. C. Tait 7 April [1869]
Summary
Drosophyllum plants recovering [from trip]. Describes experiments on them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6693 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 17 April 1869
Summary
Wants information on plumage of chickens
and table of sex ratios in greyhounds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6698 |
To George Charles Wallich 18 April [1869]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to London to be photographed [for GCW’s Eminent men of the day (1870)]. Invites GCW to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Charles Wallich |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.374) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6701 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks for greyhound table; interested in transmission of colour in greyhounds and relationship to sex.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6702 |
To W. C. Tait 18 April [1869]
Summary
Not well owing to fall from horse.
[Drosophyllum] plants going on very well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Alan R. Tait (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6705 |
To J. Noordhoek Hegt 19 April 1869
Summary
Enquires about spurs in the last year’s birds of Pavo Spicifer and cristatus.
Enquires about sexual differences in mandrills.
Asks the correct spelling of JNH’s surname and offers to send a copy of Journal of Researches.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | J. Noordhoek Hegt |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | Stadsarchief Amsterdam (395: 614) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6705F |
To A. R. Wallace 14 April 1869
Summary
ARW’s review of 10th ed. of Lyell’s Principles [see 6684] is admirable.
But he differs "grievously" with ARW on man. CD sees no necessity for an additional and proximate cause.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 181–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6706 |
To P. G. King 24 April 1869
Summary
Thanks PGK for his aid in reporting the curious case of the parrot.
Will consult John Gould about rosella [Australian parakeet].
Recalls with pleasure their friendship on board the Beagle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Gidley King |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2, Item 2, pp. 5–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6712A |
To George Maw 27 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks GM for specimens of Drosophyllum; by a strange coincidence CD has also received plants from a correspondent in Oporto [W. C. Tait].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6714 |
To J. N. Hegt 27 April [1869]
Summary
Arranges to send a copy of Journal of researches.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | J. Noordhoek Hegt |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Stadsarchief, Amsterdam (395: 614) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6714F |
To James Paget 29 April [1869]
Summary
Has made a wonderful recovery [from riding accident].
Asks for information on blushing and screaming [for Expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Autogr. b. 4, fol. 119a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6716 |
To John Murray 29 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.
Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.
Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].
Slow progress on Descent.
His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6718 |
To Max Schmidt [29 April 1869]
Summary
Asks MS whether he will examine adult mandrills and describe the sexual differences in colouring.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maximilian (Max) Schmidt |
| Date: | [29 Apr 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6762 |
| Hegt, J. N. | (2) |
| Tait, W. C. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| King, P. G. | (1) |
| Maw, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Hegt, J. N. | (2) |
| Tait, W. C. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| King, P. G. | (1) |
