From W. B. Tegetmeier [16–20 February 1868]
Summary
Encloses information on sex ratios in thoroughbred horses.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16–20 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5882 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Encloses information on sex ratios in thoroughbred horses. …
- … instalment relating the Thoroughbred horses. If you will return the Coursing Calendar I …
- … have sent CD the information on thoroughbred horses that he published in the Field , 22 …
- … behalf for facts on the proportion of the sexes in horses and other domesticated animals. …
- … Tegetmeier’s notice on horses was as follows: ‘By referring to the Racing Calendar for the …
From J. E. Gray 17 February 1868
Summary
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5886 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … on pigs is being printed [ Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49]. Colouring in horses. …
- … Gray 1868 . CD discussed the coloration of horses in Variation 1: 55–61 and 2: 305. On the …
- … I do not see that you make any observation on the colour of the Horse, I consider that the …
- … normal colour of the Horse, differs from that of asses in being Pomelet or coppered that …
- … spots, on a dark ground, these spots are to be seen in grey Black, & bay horses indeed …
- … in all horses more or less distinctly, they look like the hammer mark on …
- … copper & hence the french & English name I saw a dappled grey horse defined the …
- … other day as horses with round black spot, but that is a mistake the spot or at least …
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 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Variation , including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness …
- … to Variation. The reference is to the horse breeds Cleveland Bay and Clydesdale (see …
- … the prosecuting of it. First with regard to dun horses. About 1854 or 55 I was visiting a …
- … with him I saw in a field with other young horses a dun cob two & a half years old he …
- … for he was got by so & so’s bay coaching horse out of that little dapple grey mare you saw …
- … he could tell me little about them but the horse would doubtless be a cock tail with about …
- … assistance. I have often heard breeders of horses say that when they had a mare that was …
- … she would afterwards hold when put to a horse and I remember an instance in which this was …
- … were over she was tried with several blood horses but would not hold to any of them her …
- … since had I believe more than one foal to horses. Red Wheat is undoubtedly more hardy than …
From B. J. Sulivan 19 March 1868
Summary
Writes of his son’s affairs.
Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 292 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6026 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … affairs. Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses. …
- … cited Sulivan for information about wild horses on the Falkland Islands scraping away snow …
- … quite understand me in. You appear to think it is the wild horses only, but …
- … an English Horse, and Mares direct from the Pampas, did just the same & kept in good …
- … Sheep seem to have the same habit as the Horses & scrape [ up ] feed as they go though …
- … There is one point connected with the Horses feeding under snow that I think you did not …
From William Blenkiron Jr [c. February 1868?]
Summary
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
| Author: | William Blenkiron, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Feb 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5340 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Bibliography Craig, Dennis. 1982. Horse-racing: the breeding of thoroughbreds and a short …
- … In the second letter, CD enquired about horses’ fighting. In Descent 2: 268, CD wrote that …
- … trainers and breeders and been assured that horses invariably tried to seize one another …
- … what little experience I have had amongst horses I should say the mane of the stallion is …
- … of nature as is possible— In the case of horses fighting, they invariably endeavour to …
From B. J. Sulivan 13 February [1868]
Summary
Sends photo of four Fuegians, including Jemmy Button’s son.
Reports incident of two wild stallions on the Falklands acting together in an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241].
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 188–9, DAR 177: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5873 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … an attempt to take a troop of mares from an introduced English horse [see Descent 2: 241]. …
- … think you may like to hear a fact about the horses if I have not told you it before. There …
- … each other without fighting— The young English Horse I took out was running under those …
- … with eight mares, & several times these wild horses had singly tried to fight him for his …
- … him. our Capitain saw it from the house and when he rode to the spot one horse was …
- … keeping our horse engaged while the other was driving away the mares and had got four of …
From John Wright 11 June 1868
Summary
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
| Author: | John Wright; John Osmaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 163–4, DAR 85: B38, DAR 86: A95–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6240 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … exists occasionally. On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs. …
- … namely “on the preference of female dogs horses or other animals for particular males …
- … the case, occasionally in breeding horses, a mare will sometimes evince particular dislike …
- … had 7 foals & every time by a different horse except in one instance, but every foal she …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WBT for tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5906 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … received & thank you most sincerely for the Horse returns: they are very interesting to …
- … if you will undertake cattle as well as Horses & Dogs. — I presume that no materials exist …
- … proportion of the sexes in thoroughbred horses using the record of births in the Racing …
- … and n. 5). Tegetmeier’s memorandum on horses has not been found; see, however, the letter …
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 15 February 1868]
Summary
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5878 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to reply to this as I shall be writing again with the race horse returns— As there are …
- … about 1500 or 1600 race horse births a year I suppose 20 years returns will be amply …
- … one year are not sufficient for you Race horses are given in the racing Calendar. — In the …
- … of the yearly accounts of the thorough bred horses for some twenty years. I will also look …
From Alphonse de Candolle 2 July 1868
Summary
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6264 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … a spineless Robinia pseudo-acacia suitable for horse fodder, and a sugar beet with high …
- … The stripes which often appear on hybrid horses have reminded me that on coats of arms, a …
- … the idea for this sign from observing horses, which they certainly must have known well? …
- … have to run about. We know how small the horses from some islands (Corsica, Shetland etc) …
- … is rarely timid and never vicious. Among horses it rather resembles what English gentlemen …
- … are among men. The horses of the Pyrenees have small feet and run fast, like their …
- … one says run like a Basque). The Swiss horses have large feet and go slowly, like the …
- … towards the defects that he shares. The horse adapts more than most to the rider. The …
- … Calendar no. 7557). CD discussed stripes in horses in Variation 1: 56–61. See Variation …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”. …
To B. J. Sulivan 18 February [1868]
Summary
CD thanks BJS for photographs of Jemmy [Button]’s son
and for the curious case about stallions, which leads him to ask whether BJS has observed that horses when fighting try especially to bite each other’s necks.
Does he know anything about male seals fighting?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5889 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 October 1868
Summary
Encloses copy of H. Barkly’s answer to JDH’s inquiry on the Seychelles Island crocodile.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 238–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6410 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … marks of whose teeth were shown me after the Horse arrived at the capital The groom jumped …
- … by a kick in its jaws from the wounded horse— Disgusted with this reception, the crocodile …
- … amongst other presents to the King an Arab horse. Whilst crossing one of the small marshy …
- … depth of which could not exeed 4 feet, the Horse was attacked on his left flank by a huge …
From John Price 5 March 1868
Summary
Visiting W. D. Fox.
Sends specimen of Cardamine pratensis,
and an account of a striped horse.
Discusses Pangenesis.
Has returned to religion and has been reflecting on God’s mercies, one of which CD should remember from about 1828 at Bodnant.
| Author: | John Price |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5982 |
From Fritz Müller 3 April 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him copy of Variation.
Describes results of his brother’s [August Müller] experiments on effect of climate on maize.
Like ancestors of horses, young tapir is also striped.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 137–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089A |
From J. E. Gray 2 March 1868
Summary
Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970 |
From Alexander Wallace 28 February 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in insects, captured and bred. [see Descent 1: 313.]
| Author: | Alexander Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B41–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5953 |
From Friedrich Rolle 28 May 1868
Summary
Questions CD’s view in Variation that Torfschwein formerly ranged from Europe to China.
Cites numerous German publications relating to CD’s theory.
| Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 204 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6213 |
From Alexander Wallace 14 March 1868
Summary
On proportion of sexes [of moths?] raised from larvae: AW does not select largest exclusively.
Account of lambing in 1864 after unusual drought.
| Author: | Alexander Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A26–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6011 |
From J. B. Innes 31 August 1868
Summary
JBI has been charmed with Variation. Does not think there is really any theological difficulty in the "predestination of variation".
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6335 |
| letter | (48) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Cupples, George | (3) |
| Gray, J. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (5) |
| Cupples, George | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
'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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lucy, provides observations on the expression of emotion in horses and babies. She also reports …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on your Farm, you may not be aware that the necks of your horses are badly galled … Darwin …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
Summary
—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,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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
Summary
[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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … information on the proportion of the sexes in sheep, cattle, horses, and dogs, and circulating …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … An unidentified correspondent offered facts on Clydesdale horses, Chillingham cattle, Leicester …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on most of the common domesticated animals, among them horses, rabbits, pigeons, and poultry. As he …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the hope of finding more cases of striping in dray and cart horses, of inheritance in fowls, of the …
