From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1869
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 4–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6560 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 20 January 1869
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6561 |
From William Kencely Bridgman to John Gwyn Jeffreys [before 21 January 1869]
Summary
Gives observations on the coincidence of nectar secretion and the opening of the anthers in Aucuba.
Author: | William Kencely Bridgman |
Addressee: | John Gwyn Jeffreys |
Date: | [before 21 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6562 |
To Mary Somerville 21 January [1869]
Summary
Thanks for copy of MS’s book [On molecular and microscopic science, (1869)]. Part on orchids is an excellent summary.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Fairfax; Mary Greig; Mary Somerville |
Date: | 21 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6563 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 21 January 1869
Summary
Sends CD another piebald potato and a spray of holly, from Mr Fish, discussed in Gardeners’ Chronicle of 22 Jan [1869, p. 83].
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6564 |
To W. K. Bridgman 21 January [1869]
Summary
Discusses fertilisation of Aucuba and Polygala.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kencely Bridgman |
Date: | 21 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6565 |
From George Cupples 21 January 1869
Summary
Forwards reply from [Peter Robertson] head forester for Marquis of Breadalbane on development of horns in Scottish deer.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 290; DAR 86: A81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6566 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 January [1869]
Summary
Response to letter about dedication of Malay Archipelago and several scientific papers.
Changes in 5th ed. of Origin.
Now feels individual differences of paramount importance. Fleeming Jenkin has convinced him about "single variations".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 165–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6567 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 January 1869]
Summary
No paradox that unimportant characters are important systematically. This view removes heavy burden from CD’s shoulders. Relief that JDH does not object.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 114—15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6568 |
From J. V. Carus 22 January 1869
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A43–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6569 |
To James Orton 23 January [1869]
Summary
Thanks JO for intending to dedicate his The Andes and the Amazon to him.
The discovery of marine shells high up the Amazons CD finds extremely interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Orton |
Date: | 23 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6570 |
From W. K. Bridgman 23 January 1869
Summary
Is assembling apparatus of lenses and reflector to observe flower from opening to first shedding of pollen, and to determine whether fertilisation is by night- or day-feeders.
Will also examine reasons for absence of nectar in Polygala linaria.
Author: | William Kencely Bridgman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6571 |
From T. C. Eyton [before 23 January 1869]
Summary
Is trying to determine conditions governing whether or not a salmon will rise for a fly.
Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 23 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6572 |
To T. C. Eyton 24 January 1869
Summary
Has heard that book by Alphonse M[ilne]-Edwards [? Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques, 4 vols. (1867–71)] is excellent.
Asks when horns appear on young male fallow deer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 24 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.359) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6573 |
From Archibald McNeill 24 January 1869
Summary
Answer to CD’s query as to whether horns on deer are for use or ornament. [See Descent 2: 252–3.]
Author: | Archibald McNeill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 175–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6574 |
From C. F. Claus 24 January 1869
Summary
Sends a paper on reproductive modes of Leptodera ["Organisation und Fortpflanzen von Leptodera", Schr. Ges. Beförd. Naturw. Marburg (1869)].
Criticises Ernst Haeckel’s work as too unripe and enthusiastic.
Asks CD for some specimens of cirripedes in pupal stage for a work in progress.
Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6575 |
From William Chester Tait 26 January 1869
Summary
Believes Portuguese habit of removing tails of pointers is responsible for birth of some tailless dogs.
Author: | William Chester Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6577 |
From T. C. Eyton 26 January [1869]
Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6578 |
To John Phillips 27 January 1869
Summary
Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 27 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6580 |
To C. F. Claus 28 January 1869
Summary
Thanks CC for two memoirs [see 6575. The other was possibly "Die Cypris-ähnliche Larve der Cirripedien", Schr. Ges. Beförd Naturw. Marburg (1869)].
Haeckel is too enthusiastic and too bold in drawing conclusions.
CD sees no reason to add to what he says on isolation, in new edition of Origin.
Lists specimens he has available for CC’s intended study of metamorphoses of Lepas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Date: | 28 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 205–207) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6581 |
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