From Asa Gray 5 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4699 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in Amphicarpaea (North American hog peanut), a genus in the family Leguminosae (see nn. …
From B. D. Walsh 7 November 1864
Summary
Notes Louis Agassiz’s opinions on CD’s views.
Mating and sexual organs of insects.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4663 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … day, & raising great quantities of hogs & bullocks. Being far away from any mechanics, & …
| letter | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
Summary
As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more glad to get your Hog case,’ Darwin confided to Wyman, ‘as I …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
