To Louis Rérolle 2 August [1869]
Summary
Gives the definition of ‘distal’ and explains what ‘thrips’ are. Suggests that LR uses his descretion in his translation of Orchids about certain descriptive phrases such as ‘saddle-formed’, but suggests he use them each at least once.
Declines offer to look over LR’s translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Rérolle |
Date: | 2 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Aguttes (dealers) (20 February 2020, lot 240) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6848F |
To Walter Elliot 3 August [1869]
Summary
Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
Date: | 3 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6849 |
To Ernst Haeckel 3 August [1869]
Summary
Suggests Englishmen who might provide sponge specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6850 |
To John Lubbock 3 August 1869
Summary
Sexual differences in Labidocera darwinii, in Entomostraca, and Myriapoda.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 3 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 66 (EH 88206510) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6851 |
To M. C. Lloyd 4 August [1869]
Summary
Encloses letter from W. B. Dawkins concerning "our old savage progenitors with their ground-down teeth".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Charlotte Lloyd |
Date: | 4 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.373) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6852 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 August [1869]
Summary
Replies to JDH on Hallett; doubts that already improved varieties do not vary in other respects.
The North British Review article [see 6841] is worth reading "scientifically"; it made CD feel small.
Awaits JDH’s decision on affinities of Drosophyllum and Drosera.
Is curious to see proportion of males to females in recent census in India.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 144–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6855 |
To Thomas Spencer Cobbold 9 August [1869]
Summary
Offers TSC specimens of parasitic worms collected by CD in S. America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Spencer Cobbold |
Date: | 9 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Cobbold 1885, p. 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6858 |
To Achille Quadri 9 August 1869
Summary
Thanks for two copies of Teoria Darwiniana, one of which has been sent to the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Achille Quadri |
Date: | 9 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | Anon. 1896 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6859F |
To J. D. Hooker 14 August [1869]
Summary
Faraday memorial is an exception.
George [Darwin] has convinced CD that North British Review article is by P. G. Tait [see 6841].
Surprised that leaves of Drosophyllum are always rolled backwards at their tips, but did not know it was unique character.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 149-50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6863 |
To Federico Delpino 24 and 25 August [1869]
Summary
Thanks FD for his three publications.
CD is pleased that FD has discussed Pangenesis, although he does not favour the hypothesis. Will seek English publisher.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 24 and 25 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.376) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6869 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 August 1869
Summary
Inquires about the differences in plumage between chicks and adults of certain poultry breeds. Is anxious to know whether the chick’s plumage closely approaches the adult’s in those breeds in which the sexes resemble each other in plumage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6870 |
To W. C. Tait 27 August [1869]
Summary
Will not trouble WCT for more specimens of Drosophyllum. Hooker says genus is closely allied to Drosera, though having such different habits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 27 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 546 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6872 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 August [1869]
Summary
THF’s view, if confirmed, pleases CD in that what appears a mere morphological character is found to be of use. Carl Nägeli has been attacking him on this head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6859 |
letter | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cobbold, T. S. | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Elliot, Walter | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cobbold, T. S. | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Elliot, Walter | (1) |