From F. T. Köppen 25 April 1871
Summary
Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)]. The effect of the growth of forest land on their increase; meteorological and climatic effects.
Also observations made on increase in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of weasels that fed on mice.
| Author: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7716 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … red crayon ; ‘The swarm of migratory Locusts in Bessarabia caused mice & [ rats ] to …
- … further notes on the habits etc of locusts, if desired, and remain with the greatest …
- … Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", …
- … in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of …
- … Ueber die Heuschrecken in Südrussland’ (On locusts in southern Russia; Köppen 1865 ), as …
- … that the reference to my observations on locusts was taken from the Zoological Record of …
- … pages. Köppen refers to his article on locusts and related insects in Russia ( Köppen …
- … as the source of his information on locusts in Bessarabia, but Döngingk has not been …
- … Bessarabia. — In 1861, when migratory locusts had stayed in southern Russia for a number …
- … field voles and shrews, both of which chiefly feed on locust eggs, increased enormously. …
- … But when the locusts, very likely due to meteorological conditions, deposited only few …
- … I published a piece of research on migratory locusts in Russian in which I paid particular …
- … or later appearance and the mass-development of locusts, and the latter their geographical …
Fuller, Claude, ed. 1907. First report of the committee of control of the South African Central Locust Bureau, Pretoria. Cape Town: Central Locust Bureau.
From J. P. M. Weale 23 October 1868
Summary
Describes Lappago aleina, a species of South African grass,
and reports his observations on locusts and their feeding habits.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 93a–94a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6428 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … of South African grass, and reports his observations on locusts and their feeding habits. …
- … ink 13.2 I have seen … destroyed. 13.5] ‘Locusts’ added and circled ink 13.3 Leguminous …
- … that of 23 January [1868]. A small packet of locust dung was enclosed with the letter from …
- … interested by what you wrote to me about the locust dung having grass seeds in it. The …
- … Faure, Jacobus C. 1932. The phases of locusts in South Africa. Bulletin of Entomological …
- … the place of a luxuriant meadow. The locusts are I think without exception more cunning …
- … curious to notice the predilection the locusts have for certain kinds of food. Where they …
- … p. 439. It had been suggested to Weale that locusts might disseminate ‘certain obnoxious …
- … by the Xhosa people ( EB ). The brown locust ( Locustana pardalina ) swarmed Cape Colony …
- … only been noticed since the last influx of locusts. One thing is quite certain that Karroo …
- … country. I have been able to watch the locusts very carefully as we have this last year …
To Charles Lyell 31 October [1867]
Summary
Describes seeds transported in locust dung. Discusses other cases of transport and migration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 31 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5659 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Describes seeds transported in locust dung. Discusses other cases of transport and …
- … to me from Natal a small packet of dry locust-dung, under 1 2 oz, with the statement that …
- … Philip Mansel Weale had enclosed a packet of locust dung with his letter of 7 July 1867 . …
- … added the information about seeds in locust dung and in mud on the foot of a woodcock to …
- … of the pellets. It deserves notice that Locusts are sometimes blown far out to sea; I …
- … or Toad-rush germinated. By the way the Locust case verifies what I said in the ‘Origin’ …
- … information on the seeds germinated from locust dung to Origin 5th ed. , p. 439. Lyell’s …
To J. D. Hooker [20 May 1868]
Summary
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20 May 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6190 |
Faure, Jacobus C. 1932. The phases of locusts in South Africa. Bulletin of Entomological Research 23: 293–405.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Faure, Jacobus C. 1932. The phases of locusts in South Africa. Bulletin of Entomological …
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1868]
Summary
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [June 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6243 |
To Asa Gray 16 October [1867]
Summary
Sends sheets of first volume of Variation.
Transport of seeds in locust dung.
Pangenesis will be called "a mad dream".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5649 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … volume of Variation . Transport of seeds in locust dung. Pangenesis will be called "a mad …
- … Philip Mansel Weale had sent CD a packet of locust dung with his letter of 7 July 1867 . …
- … in Natal sent me a little packet by post of the dung of locusts with the statement that …
- … it was believed that locusts brought new plants to the districts which they visited. Six …
- … methods of transport w d be discovered; for locusts are often blown many 100 miles out to …
To F. T. Köppen 28 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FTK’s locust paper ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
| Date: | 28 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 92. Register 1. Folder 112. P. 1, 1 r) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7723 |
From Wilhelm Breitenbach 22 February 1882
Summary
Describes his collections and research on Brazilian insects, especially Orthoptera. Comments on insect phylogeny.
| Author: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13700 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … extensive migrations like the migratory locust of Europe. However, for the time being I …
- … Orthoptera). Locustidae is the former family of locusts (now subsumed within Acrididae). …
- … The main swarming species of locust in the Rio Grande do …
- … Sul region is the South American locust ( Schistocerca cancellata ), which ranges from …
- … Orthoptera is the order of grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets. At this time, it included …
Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan. 2004. Locust: the devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier. New York: Basic Books.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan. 2004. Locust: the devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of …
From C. L. Bernays 7 July 1877
Summary
Has enjoyed CD’s last publications, especially on self-fertilisation of plants.
Believes a visit by CD to the U. S. would do much to promote his theories.
Reports on American campaign against locusts [by C. V. Riley].
| Author: | Charles Louis Bernays |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11040 |
To C. V. Riley 28 September 1881
Summary
Comments on CVR’s paper [‘Further notes on the pollination of Yucca and on Pronuba and Prodoxus’, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1880): 617–39]. ‘What an inaccurate man Mr Thomas Meehan is.’ Interested in further observations on Pronuba.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13360 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … In its mature form, the mite devours the eggs that locusts lay underground; in the larval …
- … form, the mites attach themselves to locusts (usually under the wing) and suck the …
- … year 1877, relating to the Rocky Mountain locust (Washington: Government Printing Office, …
- … included Riley’s investigation of the locust mite ( Trombidium locustarum , a synonym of …
To J. P. M. Weale 9 December [1867]
Summary
Has had no less than seven grasses germinate from locust dung sent by JPMW.
JPMW’s paper on Bonatea is being printed by Linnean Society. [See J. P. M. Weale, "Structure and fertilisation of the genus Bonatea", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6.]
Refers to Lyell’s new edition of Principles [10th ed., 2 vols. (1867–8)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5714 |
From Asa Gray 18 November 1867
Summary
Is reading sheets of Variation.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5682 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 3 May 1871
Summary
Asks VOK to translate a passage from Franz Körte, Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke [1828], p. 33.
Deplores the "fearful piece of tyranny" that is obstructing publication of Descent in Russia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 3 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7735 |
Morris, M. H. (1797–1867)
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the hessian fly and the seventeen-year locust. BDWS Pauly 2004 Bibliography BDWS : …
To Benjamin Dann Walsh 3 April [1869]
Summary
Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.
Interested in galls
and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1869] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5482 |
To J. P. M. Weale 27 August [1867]
Summary
CD finds the case of Muraltia with irritable stamens curious.
Thanks JPMW for his help with expression queries and would be grateful for any more information. Believes the action of the so-called "grief muscles" is a result of combined action of two muscles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5617 |
To W. E. Darwin 20 [August 1877]
Summary
Asks WED to make some observations on Acacia or Robinia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 20 [Aug 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10755 |
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Asa Gray in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to identify grasses that had grown from seeds embedded in locust dung sent from Africa the previous …
