From Henry Walter Bates 17 January 1870
Summary
Returns CD’s MS [of entomological section of Descent] marked with suggested alterations.
Suggests qualifications about rudimentary horn in female Onitis furcifer [See Descent 1: 372].
Sends additional data on colour differences in sexes of longicorn Coleoptera [See Descent 1: 367–8].
Suggests a modification of CD’s view of female coloration that would bring him "nearly into harmony" with Wallace.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A44–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7082 |
To Charles Boner 20 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks CB for Transylvania [1865].
CD’s health has declined steadily. He must now be content to read about nature as described by CB and others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Boner |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 203–204) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7083 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 21 January 1870
Summary
Refers to "Devonshire Man"’s attack on him ["Professor Huxley’s last new theory", Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Jan 1870, p. 6]. His intention to answer – a waste, except for political bearing of Celt question ["Professor Huxley on Celts and Teutons", Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan 1870, p. 6].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 323 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7084 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1870
Summary
Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B90–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7085 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 January [1870]
Summary
Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7086 |
From John Brodie Innes 28 January 1870
Summary
JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7087 |
From William Turner 3 January 1870
Summary
On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].
| Author: | William Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B158–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088 |
To ? [1870s?]
Summary
Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [1870s?] |
| Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW Dolaucothi L 5984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7088F |
To James Crichton-Browne 31 January [1870]
Summary
Asks JC-B to return copy of Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] and sends some notes "as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 329 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7089 |
To Richard Kippist 10 January [1870 or 1871]
Summary
Is sending some books for the Linnean Society Library.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7434 |
| letter | (30) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Boner, Charles | (1) |
| Bonham-Carter, Alice | (1) |
| Child, G. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Boner, Charles | (2) |
| Günther, Albert | (2) |
| Linnean Society | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Boner, Charles | (3) |
| Günther, Albert | (3) |
| Unidentified | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
