From W. W. Reade 28 June [1869]
Summary
Horned rams of Guinea sheep.
CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6260 |
From J. J. Weir June 1869
Summary
Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6763 |
From William Buckler [after 8 June 1869]
Summary
List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].
Author: | William Buckler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 June 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6766 |
To Asa Gray 1 June [1869]
Summary
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 June [1869] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6767 |
To W. C. Tait 1 June [1869]
Summary
WCT should send specimens to Orpington Station.
Invites him to visit, but afraid conversation "would quite knock me up".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 1 June [1869] |
Classmark: | Alan R. Tait (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6768 |
From James Crichton-Browne 1 June 1869
Summary
Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6769 |
From George Cupples [1 June 1869]
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6770 |
To George Cupples [after June 1869]
Summary
Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | [after June 1869] |
Classmark: | Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6770F |
To Stephen Paul Engleheart 2 June [1869]
Summary
Asks about orbicular muscles in eyes of women suffering in labour.
Inquires about treatment for dyspeptic weakness involving "Volta-Electric Chain bands".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Stephen Paul Engleheart |
Date: | 2 June [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.398) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6771 |
To Adolf Reuter 2 June 1869
Summary
Thanks AR for his offer to send his observation notes, but since CD will not pursue the subject of variation under domestication, and his German is poor, he urges him to publish them in some periodical.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
Date: | 2 June 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 222–223) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6772 |
To Joseph Henry Gilbert 3 June [1869]
Summary
Declines invitation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Date: | 3 June [1869] |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL9.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6773 |
From J. V. Carus 3 June 1869
Summary
Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6774 |
From Robert Elliot to George Cupples 4 June 1869
Summary
Proportion of sexes in (new-born) lambs equal, but males more likely to die.
Author: | Robert Elliot |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 4 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A30–1, A62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6775 |
From Ponderer to the Athenæum [before 5 June 1869]
Summary
Inquires how CD arrived at the conclusion that fifteen million elephants could be produced from a single pair in five centuries [Origin, 5th ed., p. 74].
Author: | Ponderer |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | [before 5 June 1869] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 June 1869, p. 772 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6775F |
From J. D. Hooker 6 June 1869
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 14–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6776 |
To John Traherne Moggridge 7 June 1869
Summary
Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.
CD’s riding accident.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 7 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 377 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6777 |
From Henry Walter Bates 8 June 1869
Summary
Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6778 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 June 1869
Summary
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6779 |
From George Swaysland 12 June 1869
Summary
Observations on birds entering the country in spring. Some have clods of earth on their feet.
Author: | George Swaysland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6780 |
From Max Schmidt 14 June 1869
Summary
Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.
Author: | Maximilian (Max) Schmidt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6781 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Aitchison, William | (3) |
Elliot, Robert | (3) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Athenæum | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Cupples, George | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Engleheart, S. P. | (1) |
Gilbert, J. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Koch, Eduard | (1) |
Lankester, E. R. | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
More, A. G. | (1) |
Reuter, Adolf | (1) |
Smith, E. A. | (2) |
Tait, W. C. | (1) |
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Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
Cupples, George | (10) |
Aitchison, William | (3) |
Athenæum | (3) |
Elliot, Robert | (3) |