From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
From Thomas Barbot Beale 17 December [1868 or later]
Summary
On why it is said Indian elephants do not breed in captivity; mating habits of male so violent as to require restraint.
Author: | Thomas Barbot Beale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec [1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13777 |
From William Thomas Bridges? 14 July [1868–70?]
Summary
Asks CD what prompts dogs of all kinds to roll themselves in decayed animal matter; inherited habit or immediate gratification?
Author: | William Thomas Bridges |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July [1868-70] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13782 |
From Ludwig Büchner 9 October [1868 or later]
Author: | Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig (Ludwig) Büchner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct [1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 355 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13783 |
From Asa Gray [25 February 1868 or later]
Summary
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2563 |
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 8 January [1868?]
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4971 |
From George Brown [before 1868]
Summary
Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.
Author: | George Thomas (George) Brown |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1868] |
Classmark: | Variation 1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5313F |
From William Blenkiron Jr [c. February 1868?]
Author: | William Blenkiron, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Feb 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5340 |
From John Scott 8 January [1868]
Summary
Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5351 |
From E. A. Darwin [before 11 October 1868]
Summary
C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5746 |
From J. J. Weir [before 30 May 1868]
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5748 |
From Richard Barwell [1868?]
Author: | Richard Barwell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 52a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5749 |
From Edward Blyth [after 3 February 1868]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5750 |
From B. D. Walsh [before 31 October 1868]
Summary
Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 31 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5755 |
From Osbert Salvin [1868?]
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 172–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5758 |
From W. D. Fox [before 14 May 1868]
Summary
Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.
Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5762 |
From Hermann Müller January [1868]
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5770 |
From Alfred Wrigley 2 January 1868
Summary
Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.
Author: | Alfred Wrigley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5773 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 2 January 1868
Summary
Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.
Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.
F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5774 |
From C. S. Vesselofski 3 January 1868
Summary
CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.
Author: | Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5775 |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Weir, J. J. | (22) |
Blyth, Edward | (20) |
Dallas, W. S. | (19) |
Wallace, A. R. | (17) |