To Hugh Falconer 23 November 1857
Summary
Can HF ask Col. E. Dickie [probably Col. Edward John Dickey] enclosed questions about Indian horses? [Questions relate to striped markings on the Kutch breed of horses.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 23 Nov 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2175 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Col. Edward John Dickey] enclosed questions about Indian horses? [Questions relate …
- … to striped markings on the Kutch breed of horses. ] …
- … the above stripes, strongly inherited, when such coloured horses are crossed with others. …
- … 7. Are all the horses, whatever their colour may be, when striped , small and built like …
- … upon Smith’s work for information on Indian horses ( Natural selection , pp. 329–30). …
- … In Variation 1: 58–9, CD discussed the striped horses of India but did not mention either …
- … Hamilton. 1843. The natural history of horses. The Equidæ or genus equus of authors. Vol. …
- … the colours and markings of some Indian horses, from the very best authority, namely Col. …
- … speaking of the Kutch or Kahleawar breed of horses, says “Kutch is the country where the …
- … from Major Gwatkin that the Grey Kutch horses have a dorsal stripe and zebra-like marks on …
- … heard of this before. 4. Are any Kutch horses cream-coloured; and have such the dorsal, or …
- … shoulder, or leg stripes? 5. Chesnut horses often have a dorsal stripe: in India have they …
From J. Knightly Ince [1857–61?]
Summary
Translates some German terms describing colour of horses.
Author: | J. Knightly Ince |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1857–61?] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 20 (EH 88206072) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6538 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Translates some German terms describing colour of horses. …
- … from the subject matter, colours of horses. Most of CD’s letters on this subject were …
- … Ince about German words for the colours of horses. He may have been reading Hofacker …
- … German work on inheritance including a discussion of colour in horses. CD cited Hofacker …
- … his discussion of inheritance of colour in horses in Variation 1: 59, and in a letter on …
To T. C. Eyton 26 [June 1857]
Summary
Ill.
Comments on TCE’s study of birds’ bones.
His work on variation progresses.
Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 26 [June 1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2113 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … bones. His work on variation progresses. Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass. …
- … varieties. As you are a great man for Horses, you might aid me, if not irksome to you, by …
- … in Ireland or elswhere for any cases of Horses or Ponies with transverse bars on legs like …
- … occur in duns, & mouse-coloured & chesnut horses; & I sh d . be infinitely obliged for any …
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857]
Summary
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2140 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of varieties. Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway. Has been writing …
- … the case, do the leg- or shoulder-stripes ever quite disappear when the horse grows old? …
- … Any other information on Horses of this colour would be very valuable to me. — C. Darwin …
- … plants appeared. — Dun or Mouse-coloured Horses are said to be common in Norway. Have they …
To T. C. Eyton 9 June [1857]
Summary
Comments on TCE’s work [Catalogue of the species of birds in his collection (1856)].
Mentions African dog’s skin.
Asks about colours of horses
and about variation in tracheae of male birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 9 June [1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.146) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2103 |
To Laurence Edmondston 2 August [1857]
Summary
Thanks for rabbit.
Are there dun-coloured ponies in Shetlands? Are they striped?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
Date: | 2 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2131 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s request for information on dun-coloured horses (see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [ …
- … In most parts of N. Europe, small horses or ponys are common (Eel-backs) of a Dun or …
- … colour generally transmit it, when two horses of different colours, one being dun, are …
- … analogous occurs in cream- & roan & chesnut horses; though in the two latter colours I …
To [W. E. Darwin] [1857?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [1857?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2029 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1857]
Summary
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2102 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1857]
Summary
Does JDH’s Wahlenbergia confirm CD’s law? Variations of one species assume the character of a distinct but allied species or genus.
Seed-salting: old ones float and germinate.
Owen’s "grand paper" [? J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2117 |
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- … a Chimpanzee, as an ornithorhynchus from a Horse: I wonder what a Chimpanzee w d . say to …
To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … w d . investigate a little point on colouring of Horses in Norway for me, about Zebra-like …
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 June 1857]
Summary
Requests information from readers on breeding of dun or mouse-coloured ponies with a dark stripe down their backs. Must one or both parents be dun?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 13 June 1857] |
Classmark: | Gloucestershire Archives (T. C. Morton deposit D1021/8/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2105 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in relation to the origin of the domestic Horse. Is this peculiar colour thrown from Ponys …
From Henrietta Emma Darwin [2 August 1857]
Summary
Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Aug 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 245: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2131A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Press. 1985–. Reid, Mayne. 1857. The war-trail; or, the hunt of the wild horse. London. …
To T. H. Huxley 5 July [1857]
Summary
Asks THH’s opinion on embryological views of G. A. Brullé [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 (1844): 484–6] and F. M. Barnéoud [Ann. des Sci. Nat. ser. 3, Bot. 6 (1846): 268–96] and on Milne-Edwards’ classification.
Has been reading John Goodsir ["On the morphological constitution of the skeleton of the vertebrate head", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 5 (1857): 123–78].
Has embryology of bats ever been worked out?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 July [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2118 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … more vertebræ in it, than the head of a Horse or Ox. Many thanks for your last Lecture. …
From T. V. Wollaston [12 April 1857]
Summary
Lists groups of insects absent from the Madeiran fauna.
Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Apr 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2076 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … posterity upon, than a mere “devil’s coach-horse”, stercoraceous tho’ he be). However even …
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Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
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Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
Summary
The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
Matches: 3 hits
- … a neighbouring farmer to the RSPCA in 1852 for working horses with sore necks (see letter from Emma …
- … It is a common observation that cases of brutality to horses, asses, and other large quadrupeds, are …
- … treatment of cattle, 1822, prohibited the ill-treatment of horses, asses, sheep, and cattle, …
Earthworms
Summary
As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
Matches: 1 hits
- … a Century and all Seasons" reprinted in Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes. In an …
3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback
Summary
< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…
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- … Darwin himself was very solicitous over the treatment of horses. His erstwhile friend, Frances Power …
- … living in Down village in 1852 on a charge of cruelty to his horses, securing a conviction and fine …
- … he wrote a warning letter to another local farmer, whose horses’ necks were ‘badly galled’, saying …
- … letter to a local farmer, c.1866, about the state of his horses, DAR-LETT-4963. Emma Darwin’s diary …
5873_1488
Summary
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … might be effected in man, as are now seen in our horses, dogs, and cabbages? ’ We …
The expression of emotions
Summary
Darwin’s work on emotional expression, from notes in his Beagle diary and observations of his own children, to questionnaires, and experiments with photographs, was an integral part of his broad research on human evolution. It provided one of the main…
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- … illustrators to produce drawings and engravings of monkeys, horses, dogs, and cats. He acquired …
Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
Summary
The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…
Matches: 1 hits
- … asses of the Tartarian deserts cannot equal in numbers the horses of the more luxuriant prairies and …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Lucy, provides observations on the expression of emotion in horses and babies. She also reports …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Smith 1839–40] /on Ruminants [Jardine ed. 1835–6]// on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841]// Exotic Moths …
- … last series on Nat: Hist: [Waterton 1844] tailess horses. Read “Bronn’s Geschicte der Natur.” …
- … of Rural & Domestic Improvement ] Col: Ham: Smith on Horses [C. H. Smith 1841] …
- … Catalogue. Ungulates Grey [J. E. Gray 1843–52]. Much on Horses & Hybrids [DAR *128: 157 …
- … 8a, 11a ——. 1841. The natural history of horses. Vol. 12 in Jardine, William, ed., …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … on your Farm, you may not be aware that the necks of your horses are badly galled … Darwin …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
Matches: 5 hits
- … of the mammoth, of a rhinoceros now extinct, and along with horses and cattle unlike any now …
- … though they be, were the remote progenitors of our own horses and cattle. In all candor we must at …
- … of the world now offers more suitable conditions for wild horses and cattle than the pampas and …
- … and megatherium, at the dawn of the present period, wild-horses—certainly very much like the …
- … is a heavy blow and great discouragement to dogs, horses, elephants, and monkeys. Thus stripped of …
Frank Chance
Summary
The Darwin archive not only contains letters, manuscript material, photographs, books and articles but also all sorts of small, dry specimens, mostly enclosed with letters. Many of these enclosures have become separated from the letters or lost altogether,…
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- … Pallas states, that in Siberia domestic cattle and horses become lighter-coloured during the winter; …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Matches: 4 hits
- … ‘To assert that we could not breed our cart and race horses, long and short horned cattle, and …
- … of the rate of increase of slow-breeding cattle and horses in South America, and latterly in …
- … most curious instance of this; for here neither cattle, nor horses, nor dogs, have ever run wild, …
- … in Paraguay, the flies would decrease—then cattle and horses would become feral, and this would …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … information on the proportion of the sexes in sheep, cattle, horses, and dogs, and circulating …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … An unidentified correspondent offered facts on Clydesdale horses, Chillingham cattle, Leicester …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … on most of the common domesticated animals, among them horses, rabbits, pigeons, and poultry. As he …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … the hope of finding more cases of striping in dray and cart horses, of inheritance in fowls, of the …