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To G. R. Gray   12 July 1869

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Would be glad to send GRG a testimonial of his abilities as a naturalist, but is not qualified to express opinion on his works in ornithology or entomology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Robert Gray
Date:  12 July 1869
Classmark:  The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 232–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6827

From Alexander Wallace   15 July [1869]

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Gives information on the proportions of sexes of certain moths. [See Descent 1: 313.]

Author:  Alexander Wallace
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 86: A98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6829

From T. H. Huxley   16 July 1869

Summary

Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.

Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".

Family health.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 166: 320
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6830

From Allan C. Pagan to George Cupples   16 July 1869

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Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.

Author:  Allan Cunningham Pagan
Addressee:  George Cupples
Date:  16 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 85: B54–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6831

From J. D. Hooker   17 July 1869

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On reading F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].

Pangenesis.

Agrees with CD on fascination [of snakes].

Huxley is at Comte again.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 103: 22–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6832

To W. C. Tait   17 July [1869]

Summary

Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.

Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Chester Tait
Date:  17 July [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6833

From W. B. Dawkins   17 July 1869

Summary

On the genealogy of the horse.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 162: 123
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6834

To Albany Hancock   17 July [1869]

Summary

Ernst Haeckel is working on calcareous sponges. Does AH have any British specimens that he can spare? [See 6842.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albany Hancock
Date:  17 July [1869]
Classmark:  E. C. Hodgkin (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6834A

To Fritz Müller   18 July [1869]

Summary

Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].

Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.

The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.

Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  18 July [1869]
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6835

From Adolph Reuter   18 July 1869

Summary

Sends notes on lack of variation in seedlings of trees and shrubs

and on climbers changing their character with age.

Author:  Adolf Reuter
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 176: 125
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6836

To W. B. Dawkins   19 July [1869]

Summary

Admits that he had disobeyed his instructions and dispatched a box of bones to him by rail. Gives an account of the discovery of the bones at Perth y Chwaril on the Rhagatt estate. He has promised Miss Lloyd to obtain from WBD the English names of the principal bones.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Boyd Dawkins
Date:  19 July [1869]
Classmark:  Phillips, Son and Neale (dealers) (24 October 1985)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6836A

From E. L. Garbett to the Athenæum   19 July 1869

Summary

More on the problem of the increase of elephants (see 6806f and 6820).

Author:  Edward Lacy Garbett
Addressee:  Athenæum
Date:  19 July 1869
Classmark:  Athenæum, 24 July 1869, p. 115
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6836F

From W. B. Tegetmeier   20 July 1869

Summary

Sends C. M. Browne’s notes on transmission of colour in greyhounds [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 40]

and a letter from Major Holland.

WBT to visit America.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 178: 81
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6837

From John Lubbock   20 July [1869]

Summary

Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 July [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 170: 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6838

From James Rait to George Cupples   20 July 1869

Summary

Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.

Author:  James Rait
Addressee:  George Cupples
Date:  20 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 86: 70–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6838F

To W. B. Tegetmeier   21 July [1869]

Summary

Further queries on poultry plumage.

WBT’s visit to America.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  21 July [1869]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6839

From Jules Joseph Fleury   23 July 1869

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Wants to know whether CD is related to Edward Darwin, who married a French woman in 1823.

Author:  Jules Joseph Fleury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 164: 136
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6840

To the editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History   23 July 1869

Summary

CD passes on notes prepared for the French translation of Orchids so that his book may be brought up to date in English as well.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:  23 July 1869
Classmark:  Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 142
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6840A

To J. D. Hooker   24 July [1869]

Summary

An article in North British Review by mathematician against Hooker and Huxley and for William Thomson [P. G. Tait, "Geological time", North Br. Rev. 50 (1869): 406–39]. Feels a conviction that world will be found older than reviewer makes it.

Article on "Design" [by J. B. Mozley] in Quarterly Review [127 (1869): 134–76].

Has JDH studied Drosophyllum?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24 July [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 140–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6841

From Albany Hancock   25 July 1869

Summary

Cannot help CD with his request for calcareous sponges.

Author:  Albany Hancock
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 July 1869
Classmark:  DAR 166: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6842
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