To Jeffries Wyman 3 February [1861]
Summary
Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.
Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.
Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?
Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3056 |
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- … To Jeffries Wyman 3 February [1861] …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter from Jeffries Wyman, 8 January 1861 . …
- … Letter from Jeffries Wyman, 8 January 1861 . …
- … See letter from Jeffries Wyman, 8 January 1861 , n. 8. Wyman subsequently published a …
- … Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Feb [1861] Jeffries …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Wyman, Jeffries. 1861. On the mode of formation of the …
- … Darwin to Jeffries Wyman. Isis 42: 104–10. [Vols. 8,9] M’Donnell, Robert. 1861. On an …
Wyman, Jeffries. 1861. On the mode of formation of the rattle of the rattlesnake. Boston Society of Natural History 8 (1861–2): 121.
From Jeffries Wyman 8 January [1861]
Summary
Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.
| Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 18–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3045 |
To Jeffries Wyman 3 December [1860]
Summary
"You cannot tell how much your paper on Gestation has interested me" ["On some unusual modes of gestation in batrachians and fishes", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 27 (1859): 5–13].
Robert McDonnell has made curious discoveries on electrical organs of rays.
Is giving JW’s hog case in corrected ed. [3d] of Origin.
Would like account of tip of tail of young rattlesnake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3005 |
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
To Richard Frean 22 February 1863
Summary
Glad RF approves of book [Origin].
Impossible in many cases to conjecture how structures acquired.
Comments on degeneration of civilised man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Frean |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4005 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Jeffries Wyman’s researches on gestation in Batrachians ( Wyman 1859 ), which showed the ‘ possibility of such a transition’ ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter to George Maw, 19 July [1861] ). …
- … 1861. [Review of Origin & other works. ] Zoologist 19: 7577–611. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Wyman, Jeffries. …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Jeffries Wyman , Gray’s colleague at Harvard University, who in 1862 began a series of experiments which paralleled those of Louis Pasteur , although with different results ( Wyman 1862 ; see DSB ). Bentham suggested that Pasteur’s results ( Pasteur 1861 …
- … 1861. Mémoire sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère, examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Zoologie) 4th ser. 16: 5–98. [Vols. 10,11] Wyman, Jeffries. …
To George Maw 19 July [1861]
Summary
Has read GM’s review and thanks him for its fair and liberal spirit. Discusses briefly several specific difficulties raised by it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Maw |
| Date: | 19 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3214 |
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From George Rolleston 1 September 1861
Summary
The embryology of the vertebrate nervous system may be an exception to the law of inheritance at corresponding ages.
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3241 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1861 , p. 477). Rolleston mistranscribed the name given in Sedgwick’s paper: the reference is to Ludovic Anton Gescheidt . CD had been greatly interested by the successful attempt of Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard to transmit experimentally induced epilepsy through several generations of guinea-pigs (Brown-Séquard 1859–60). See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Jeffries Wyman, …
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