To P. L. Sclater 23 March [1861]
Summary
Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 23 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3096 |
To Daniel Oliver 23 March [1861]
Summary
CD will publish on Primula [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Will DO ask W. H. Fitch to make woodcuts of "pin" and "non-pin" primroses [i.e., long-styled and short-styled forms]? Encloses a sketch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 23 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 4 (EH 88205988); Christie’s Images (Christie’s (dealers) 11 November 1998, lot 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3097 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
To William Samuel Symonds 26 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3099 |
To H. W. Bates 26 March [1861]
Summary
Comments on the great extent of variations and on the acknowledgment of the new idea of greater female variety.
Expresses belief that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded him.
Poses a series of questions concerning sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3100 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3101 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [March 1861]
Summary
H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".
H. C. Watson’s hostility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Mar 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3102 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 March [1861]
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to read MS.
Outlines poultry breeding experiment he would like to see tried.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 28 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3103 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [28 March – 14 April 1861]
Summary
Asks for some unspecified items to be sent to him. The Half-lop [rabbit] should be killed, but without damaging the skull. Has not opened the box with skulls yet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [28 Mar – 14 Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | Max Rambod (dealer) (February 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3103F |
From H. W. Bates 28 March 1861
Summary
Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.
Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.
Sexual selection.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3104 |
To Daniel Oliver 1 April [1861]
Summary
CD never dreamed primroses did not abound with DO; apologises for trouble and sends flowers.
Will repay DO for cost of Cypripedium and for the Dionaea, if any can be got.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.243) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3106 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 April [1861]
Summary
Does not think much of the arguments of the Duke [of Argyll], though liberal and complimentary to himself.
THH’s Athenæum letter ["Man and the apes", 30 Mar 1861, p. 433] almost too civil. What a thorn THH must be to Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 162) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3107 |
To B. P. Brent 1 April [1861]
Summary
Thanks for informatiion about birds and for copies of the Cottage Gardener (26 March 1861). Discusses ancestor of domestic fowl.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Date: | 1 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Richard Brent (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3107F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 April [1861]
Summary
Details of peculiarities in poultry.
Is examining wild varieties of rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3108 |
To H. W. Bates 4 April [1861]
Summary
CD urges HWB to write on his travels;
asks for facts on domestic variations;
is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.
He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.
Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3109 |
To Daniel Oliver 4 April [1861]
Summary
Primula sibirica seems to be the only non-dimorphic species. Has made over one hundred Primula crosses.
Regrets Henslow’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 29 (EH 88206012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3110 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3111 |
To George Busk 5 April [1861]
Summary
Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 5 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.704A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3112 |
From John D. Glennie Jr 6 April 1861
Author: | John David Glennie, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 70–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3113 |
To Samuel Birch 6 April [1861]
Summary
Requests information about Japanese and Chinese encyclopedias,
about the rarity of fowls with black feathers,
and about date of the king Thouthmosis III.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
Date: | 6 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, Correspondence 1826–67: 1493 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3113A |
Darwin, C. R. | (62) |
Hooker, J. D. | (57) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Lubbock, John | (14) |
Lyell, Charles | (14) |
Darwin, C. R. | (373) |
Hooker, J. D. | (60) |
Darwin, W. E. | (18) |
Oliver, Daniel | (17) |
Lyell, Charles | (16) |