From M. T. Masters 14 April 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4092 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1863
Summary
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4093 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
To Armand de Quatrefages [14 April 1863]
Summary
The niata is a very good case because the race is well established and must originate in South America. There is a description of the head by [Richard] Owen in the Descriptive catalogue of the osteological collection of the College of Surgeons.
Has observed modifications in the skeletons of rabbits, ducks, poultry, and pigeons. There is an extract about modifications in pigeons in the first chapter of Origin. Encloses a woodcut of crested or polish fowls; there is a change in the brain as well as in the exterior bones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | [14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 4 (1863): 378–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094F |
To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4096 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
4.14 'Fun' cartoon, 'That troubles'
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< Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles our monkey again’ by John Gordon Thomson is the only one that hints, albeit playfully, at improper behaviour. Descent of Man had been criticised for its apparent…
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- … < Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles …
1.7 Ouless replica
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< Back to Introduction Following Darwin’s death in 1882, Walter William Ouless painted a replica of the portrait that had been commissioned from him by the Darwin family in 1875. This replica is signed and dated at lower left ‘W. W. Ouless 1883…
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- … Macmillan and Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1897), p. 414, ‘replica by Ouless of the picture …
