From Anthony Carlisle 23 December 1836
Summary
The Royal College of Surgeons’ Board of Curators approve the terms and conditions under which CD has offered his S. American fossil bones to the College, and have sent their recommendation to the Council.
Author: | Anthony Carlisle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Dec 1836 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-334 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1836. Dear Sir I have had the satisfaction to submit your Letter of the 19 th . to the Board of Curators who expressed their intire approval of the terms and conditions annexed to your highly liberal offer of your valuable specimens of South American fossil remains— The Board have recommended their acceptance to the next Council of the College, and I hope that you will soon receive their decision— Dear Sir | Your much obliged Serv t | Anthony Carlisle *S 2 Charles Darwin Es r &c & …
To T. C. Eyton 21 August [1856]
Summary
Asks whether offspring of cross between African pig and common pig are fertile. Are Lord Rowland Hill’s African pigs domesticated?
Mentions pigeons’ skeletons.
Is working at a book on variation [Natural selection].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 21 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.135) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1942 |
From John Richardson 17 July 1856
Author: | John Richardson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1929 |
To Ernst Haeckel [after 10] August – 8 October [1864]
Summary
Can understand EH’s feelings on death of his wife.
CD was impressed by manner in which species in South America are replaced by closely allied ones, by affinity of species inhabiting islands near S. America, and by relation of living Edentata and Rodentia to extinct species. When he read Malthus On population, the idea of natural selection flashed on him.
Agrees with EH’s remarks on Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Asks EH to thank Carl Gegenbaur [for Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | [after 10] Aug – 8 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631 |
To Daniel Oliver 24–5 March [1863]
Summary
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24–5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4059 |
To M. J. Berkeley 7 April [1855]
Summary
Asks for a pea variety for an experiment.
Discusses C. F. v. Gärtner’s results [in Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]. Criticises Gärtner’s belief that hybrids are always less fertile than their parents.
Asks about MJB’s experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 7 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1662 |
From James Hunt [before 29 December 1857]
Summary
Birds that have been hybridised.
Author: | James Hunt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 281 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2096 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Notebooks : Charles Darwin’s notebooks, 1836– …
From J. D. Hooker [late August – early September 1851]
Summary
James Wilson reports case of salmon hybrids.
Herrings inhabit freshwater lake in Scotland during winter.
JDH will edit juror reports for the Great Exhibition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Aug – early Sept 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1440 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 [December 1854]
Summary
Debates aberrant species, e.g., Ornithorhynchus and Echidna, with JDH. CD argues they are result of extinction having removed intermediate links to allied forms.
Studying effects of disuse in wings of tame and wild ducks.
Tabulations showing that number of species in a genus is not correlated with number of genera in an order.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 [Dec 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1612 |
To Charles Lyell 11 October [1859]
Summary
CL’s comments on Origin. Mentions corrections to last chapter suggested by CL.
Comments on lack of peculiar bird species on Madeira and Bermuda. Emphasises importance of American types in Galapagos.
Denies necessity of continued creation of primitive "Monads".
Denies need for new powers and any principle of improvement.
Discusses gradations of intellectual powers.
Adaptive inferiority and extinction of groups of species and genera.
Asserts that climate is less important than the struggle with other organisms.
Suggests an experiment involving primroses and cowslips.
The chapter on hybridisation.
Rudimentary organs.
Gives opinion of Lamarck’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 Oct [1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.172) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2503 |
From Jeffries Wyman 8 January [1861]
Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3045 |
From C. E. Norton 17 May 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for R. W. Darwin’s memoranda respecting Franklin. Would be grateful for copies of any Franklin letters that exist among Dr Darwin’s papers.
Author: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 77; Sparks ed. 1836–40, 6: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13160 |
To Charles Kingsley 6 November [1867]
Summary
He had no idea that the double function of an excretory passage had played a part in the history of religion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 6 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5670F |
Matches: 1 hit
From J. S. Henslow 2 November 1840
Summary
Would like further experimentation to confirm report about germination of wheat from Egyptian tombs. Sir G. Wilkinson may have been deceived by the Arabs.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1840 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-579 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1836 . In his Notebook M : 155, CD has: ‘A Volume published by Colonel in Army on “ Wheat ”. in Jarsey. — very curious facts about early production of foreign seeds. —many varieties. — Revd [ interl ] R. Jones has it. —very curious book. —’ There is a copy of a reissue, Le Couteur [1838? ], in the Darwin Library–CUL, inscribed ‘C. …
From Edward Blyth 21 April 1855
Summary
Indigenous domestic animals of the New World.
Relationship of Newfoundland and Esquimo dogs to the wolf. Dogs like the Esquimo occur in Tibet and Siberia. Indian pariah dogs and jackals occasionally interbreed.
Describes domestic cats of India; reports cases of their interbreeding with wild cats. Wild cats are tamed for hunting.
Races of silkworm in India are crossed [see 1690].
Domesticated plants, fish, and birds of India.
Comments on local races and species of crows; it is impossible to trace a line of demarcation between races and species.
Variation in the ability of hybrids to propagate.
Indian cattle breeds; differences between Bos indicus and Bos taurus.
Is not satisfied that aboriginally wild species of horse and ass exist.
Believes all fancy breeds of pigeon originated in the East. Wild ancestors of pigeons, ducks, geese, and fowls. Interbreeding of wild species of pheasant.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this letter.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A57–A68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1670 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Nilsson, Sven. 1849. On the extinct and existing bovine animals of Scandinavia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 4: 256–69, 349–55, 415–23. Notebooks : Charles Darwin’s notebooks, 1836– …
- … 1836). Prescott 1843 , 2: 108–9. At this point in his abstract (DAR 203), CD noted: ‘Ask for legs to be sent— ask him to compare wing. (M r . [ Christie ] )’. Huanaco is the Quechua word for guanaco ( Lama glama ) The vicuña is Vicugna vicugna . C. H. Smith 1839–40 . The Newfoundland dog is described in the second volume (1840), pp. 132–4. This work is in the Darwin …
To Osbert Salvin 11 [May 1863]
Summary
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 11 [May 1863] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153A |
To A. C. Ramsay 5 September [1862]
Summary
On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.
On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.
T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 5 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 7 (EH 88205980) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3714 |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Carlisle, Anthony | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Carlisle, Anthony | (1) |