To William Ogle 22 September 1875
Summary
Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 22 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 14 (EH 88205912) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10165 |
From William Ogle [23–4 September 1875]
Summary
Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–4 Sept 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167 |
To William Ogle 25 September 1875
Summary
From Galton’s "twin study" he suspects that some progenitor of WO’s had the peculiarities in question.
Has collected cases of signs of assent for a revised edition of Expression.
Suggests bees visit same species because they know how far to insert proboscis and thus save time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 25 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 15 (EH 88205913) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10171 |
To William Ogle 22 July [1876]
Summary
Would like to cite WO’s case of bees perforating white but not blue monkshood (Aconitum napellus) in his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 427–8]. Believes it is probably sterile if insects are excluded.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 22 July [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 16 (EH 88205914) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10563 |
From William Ogle 23 July 1876
Summary
Recounts his observations on the different ways bees perforate flowers of white and blue varieties of monkshood. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p 428.]
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10565 |
From William Ogle 21 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Suggests plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11109 |
To William Ogle 17 August 1878
Summary
Is glad WO is undertaking the editing of Anton Kerner’s book [Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (1876)], which appears to open out "highly original & curious fields of research". [Used as prefatory letter to Kerner, Flowers and their unbidden guests, The translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878).]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 17 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | Ogle trans. 1878, pp. v–vi |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11666 |
To William Ogle [after 27 November 1878]
Summary
Thanks for his translation of [Anton] Kerner [Flowers and their unbidden guests: the translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | [after 27 Nov 1878] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, New York (dealers) (October 1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768F |
To William Ogle 16 December [1878]
Summary
Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.
Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 16 Dec [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11797 |
To William Ogle 17 January 1881
Summary
Thanks WO for copying and translating [unspecified] passages. CD knew nothing about them, but doubts they are of real use. Passage about summer solstice may indicate something new.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 17 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 17 (EH 88205915) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13015 |
From William Ogle 17 January 1882
Summary
Sends a translation of Aristotle’s De partibus animalium and imagines that if the old teleologist were alive CD would convince him of his errors.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13621 |
To William Ogle 17 January 1882
Summary
Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 17 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13622 |
To William Ogle 22 February 1882
Summary
Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 19 (EH 88205917) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13697 |
From William Ogle 12 April 1882
Summary
A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13767 |
To William Ogle 29 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks WO for information on inheritance of deficient phalanges [Variation 2:73] and for interesting case of the occurrence of anomalous fingers and teeth in twins[Variation 2: 253].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 29 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 1 (EH 88205899) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5470 |
To William Ogle 6 March [1868]
Summary
Wishes he had known of the views of Hippocrates, which are almost identical to his Pangenesis hypothesis. CD advances it as provisional, but secretly expects some such view will have to be admitted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 6 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 2 (EH: 88205900) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5987 |
From William Ogle 2 September 1868
Summary
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6346 |
To William Ogle 7 July [1869]
Summary
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 7 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6818 |
From William Ogle [after 7 July 1869]
Summary
WO very gratified by CD’s complimentary remarks on his Salvia article.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 July 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6821 |
From William Ogle [before 9 November 1870]
Summary
Sends CD a paper dealing in part with animal pigmentation [Med.-Chir. Trans. 2d ser. 411 [check vol no!?] (1870): 263–90]. Discusses relationship between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 Nov 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7361 |
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