From Edward Blyth 27 March 1863
Summary
Wants to know when he may visit CD.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062 |
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- … From Edward Blyth 27 March 1863 …
- … DAR 160: 203 Edward Blyth White Hart Hotel, Bromley 27 Mar 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … had relations in Sussex, whom he visited in April 1863 (see letter from Edward Blyth, 7 …
- … Edward, prince of Wales, married Alexandra, eldest daughter of Prince Christian of Denmark, on 10 March 1863 ( DNB ). Blyth, …
- … 1863 and n. 1). Later in the year, he visited Charles Edward Rendall of Brigmerston House, near Amesbury, Wiltshire (see the Field 21 (1863): 464 and Post Office directory of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire 1859). There is no evidence that Blyth …
From Edward Blyth 7 April 1863
Summary
Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4078 |
From Edward Blyth 21 September 1863
Summary
Sends some original observations on British ferns [not found].
Has secured a small pension and hopes to acquire a house near Kew.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4300 |
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- … From Edward Blyth 21 September 1863 …
- … DAR 160: 206 Edward Blyth London, Essex St, 19 21 Sept 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Society of Bengal , early in 1863 (see letter from Edward Blyth, 27 March 1863 and n. …
- … 1863 ( Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 33 (1864): 73). See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Edward Blyth, …
Blyth, Edward. 1863. Synoptical list of the species of Felis inhabiting the Indian region and the adjacent parts of middle Asia. [Read 26 May 1863.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1863): 181–6.
From Edward Blyth 31 August 1868
Summary
EB is moving to Wiltshire for a week.
Tells CD of animals acquired, or about to be acquired, by the Zoological Garden.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6336 |
From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
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- … letter of 21 September 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11), Edward Blyth had told CD that he …
- … earlier in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Edward Blyth, 27 March 1863 and …
- … Edward Blyth, 13 January 1866 ( Calendar no. 4975)). Richard Owen delivered the lecture ‘Instances of the power of God as manifested in his animal creation’ in November 1863 …
From Edward Blyth 23 November 1862
Summary
EB has had his pension disallowed; is coming to England.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 204, DAR 205.2: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3821 |
To Carl Vogt 12 April [1867]
Summary
Would be great honour to have CV translate Variation, but Schweizerbart has arranged for J. V. Carus to do it.
Has read CV’s Lectures on man [1864] with extreme interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Vogt |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms fr. 2188, ff. 300–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5499 |
To Edward Blyth [after July 1868]
Summary
Questions from CD related to bird plumage and sexual differences, with answers by EB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | [after July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6532 |
From Edward Blyth 19 February 1867
Summary
Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]
discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,
abnormal habits shown by birds,
behaviour of cuckoos,
and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.
Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.
[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5405 |
Blyth, Edward (1810–73)
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- … Edward Blyth 1810–73 Zoologist. Druggist in Tooting, London, circa 1832–7. Wrote and edited zoological works under the pseudonym Zoophilus. Curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India, 1841–62. Provided CD with information on the plants and animals of India in correspondence between 1855 and 1858 and later. Returned to Britain in 1863, …
To George Bentham 15 April [1863]
Summary
Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4100 |
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- … Edward Blyth (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 May [1860] and n. 7). There is a copy of Anon. 1860 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Of the reviews CD listed in this letter, Bentham made direct mention only of Pictet de la Rive 1860 , Bronn trans. 1860, and Claparède 1861 ( Bentham 1863 , …
From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867
Summary
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5539 |
To T. W. Woodbury 7 December [1862]
Summary
Cannot aid TWW with respect to bees from East Indies. Suggests he write to Edward Blyth.
Thanks him for getting query on variation in bees circulated in Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 374 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3849 |
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- … 1863 ). Alfred Russel Wallace returned to Britain from the Malay archipelago at the end of March 1862; in August, following a period of illness, he left London for a holiday in Devon (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 August 1862 , and Brackman 1980 , pp. 236–42). Woodbury resided in Exeter, Devon ( Post Office directory of Devonshire 1856). Edward Blyth …
From William Sedgwick 29 February 1868
Summary
Sends extracts giving details of the case of age-limited, hereditary blindness [see Variation 2: 78].
Recounts some cases of reversion that he has encountered.
| Author: | William Sedgwick |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5959 |
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- … 1863). Sedgwick refers to his more recent three-part paper ‘On the influence of age in hereditary disease’ ( Sedgwick 1866–7 ). See Sedgwick 1866–7 , pp. 470–2 (vol. 40). Sedgwick presented a paper on disease and atavism to the British Medical Association in 1882 ( Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 90 (1907): cxi). Edward Blyth …
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