To William Thierry Preyer [before 21 March 1869]
Summary
Replies to inquiries about his life and career.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | [before 21 Mar 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 262–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6540 |
From C. S. Bate 1 March 1869
Summary
On hybridism between the fox and dog; asks whether CD knows of a reliable case of offspring from this cross.
Does CD want details on a white cat with blue eyes, but not deaf?
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6637 |
From Edward Blyth 1 March 1869
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6638 |
From W. C. Tait 2 March 1869
Summary
Sends a single specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum with description from F. de Avellar Brotero’s Flora Lusitanica [1804].
Discusses Portuguese ferns,
inherited mutilation,
and the earth’s geological history.
Evolution of behaviour and beauty by natural selection.
Author: | William Chester Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 18a–f |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6639 |
To Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing 3 March 1869
Summary
Thanks TRRS for copy of his lecture [Darwinism (1869)]. Praises his "admirable example of liberality".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Date: | 3 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.362) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6640 |
From T. C. Eyton 4 March 1869
Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6641 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 March [1869]
Summary
Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6642 |
From T. R. R. Stebbing 5 March 1869
Summary
Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".
Author: | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6643 |
From W. C. Tait 5 March 1869
Summary
Is forwarding potted specimens of Drosophyllum.
Will make inquiries about sheep.
Author: | William Chester Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6644 |
To T. C. Eyton 6 March [1869]
Summary
Thanks TCE for fawn’s head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 6 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.366) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6645 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 6 March 1869
Summary
Wishes to introduce his son, George Howard Darwin.
Has glanced at the second of AdeQ’s articles on natural history in Revue de deux mondes; ordered first article but second is already out of print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 6 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 72–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6645F |
To J. D. Hooker 8 March [1869]
Summary
Transmits letter [from Fritz Müller].
Has been asked to permit a French translation of Orchids and Journal of researches.
At work on sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 116-17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6647 |
To R. F. Cooke 9 March [1869]
Summary
Suggests best form of lettering for spine of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 198–199) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6648 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 March 1869
Summary
At writer’s request, forwards long letter on Comte by Vernon Lushington.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 262) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6649 |
From A. R. Wallace 10 March 1869
Summary
Weir’s paper on relation of protection to colour of caterpillars [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6; (1870): 337–9] confirms ARW’s hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6651 |
From Henry Landor 10 March 1869
Summary
Suggests that ground ice, in Canada and similar countries, is a mode of distribution of boulders and animal and vegetable life.
Author: | Henry Landor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6652 |
From T. H. Huxley 11 March 1869
Summary
Nothing new in Lushington’s letter. Two paragraphs are offensive – that THH sought to stir up Scotch Presbyterian prejudices against Comte at Edinburgh and that he had not read Comte.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6654 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 March 1869
Summary
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6655 |
From Georg Recht 1 March 1869
Summary
Thanks for money, which will enable him to complete publication. Explains principles of his physiological theory.
Author: | Georg Recht |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6656 |
From George Cupples 11 March 1869
Summary
Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6657 |
letter | (53) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
John Murray | (2) |
Caton, J. D. | (1) |
Claus, C. F. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Dub, Julius | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Lushington, Vernon | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Preyer, William | (2) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Stebbing, T. R. R. | (1) |
Tait, W. C. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Wilckens, Martin | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
Wallace, A. R. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Cupples, George | (3) |