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To A. D. Bartlett   14 February [1865]

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CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.

The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:  14 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4771

To J. D. Hooker   15 [February 1865]

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Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.

How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?

Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.

A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.

Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 [Feb 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 261
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4772

From J. D. Hooker   [17 February 1865]

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Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.

Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [17 Feb 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 10–11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4773

From George Busk   20 February 1865

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On a proposed meeting of friends of the deceased Hugh Falconer to decide on a memorial to him. Invites CD’s support.

Author:  George Busk
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1865
Classmark:  DAR 160: 380
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4774

To Charles Lyell   21 February [1865]

Summary

Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.

Also mentions account of Heer’s work

and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.

Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  21 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4775

To William Bernhard Tegetmeier   27 February [1865]

Summary

Wants his fowl MS.

Will shortly return WBT’s skulls.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  27 Feb [1865]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4776

From J. D. Hooker   [27 February 1865?]

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Will arrive Saturday [4 Mar] on afternoon train.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [27 Feb 1865?]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4777

From Benjamin Dann Walsh   1 March 1865

Summary

Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].

Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].

Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.

Author:  Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Mar 1865
Classmark:  Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4778

To W. B. Tegetmeier   6 [March 1865]

Summary

Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  6 [Mar 1865]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4779

From Frederick Ransome   6 March 1865

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Requests a postponement of payment on a note for £100.

Author:  Frederick Ransome
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Mar 1865
Classmark:  DAR 99: 19–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4780

From Frederick Ransome   9 March 1865

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Thanks CD for his consideration in meeting his convenience respecting the payment of the £100.

Author:  Frederick Ransome
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Mar 1865
Classmark:  DAR 99: 22–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4781

From J. D. Hooker   [10 March 1865]

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Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [10 Mar 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 13–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4782

From Rudolph Heine   10 March 1865

Summary

Admires Origin, but CD does not consider hereditary law of use and disuse.

Author:  Rudolph Heine
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Mar 1865
Classmark:  DAR 166: 134
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4783

From W. B. Tegetmeier   13 March 1865

Summary

Will return page on pigeons.

Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.

The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Mar 1865
Classmark:  DAR 178: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4785

To W. B. Tegetmeier   14 March [1865]

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Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  14 Mar [1865]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4786

To Rudolph Heine   16 March [1865]

Summary

Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Rudolph Heine
Date:  16 Mar [1865]
Classmark:  Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4786F

From W. B. Tegetmeier   [28 February – 5 March 1865]

Summary

Encloses some poultry feathers.

Will read over and return CD’s MS on fowls. Has been delayed by an eye injury.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Feb – 5 Mar 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4787

To J. D. Hooker   16 [March 1865]

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Thanks for Thomson’s and JDH’s views on Scott’s paper. Will send it back with advice and explanations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  16 [Mar 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 264
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4788

From Francis Trevelyan Buckland   18 March 1865

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Introduces Cholmondely Pennell of the Admiralty, who wants to speak to CD about a literary matter.

Author:  Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Mar 1865
Classmark:  DAR 160: 359
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4789

From George Stewardson Brady   19 March 1865

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CD’s statement in Origin that clover is utterly dependent on humble-bee for fertilisation has been questioned by his friend’s evidence of visits by other insects. Asks CD’s opinion.

Author:  George Stewardson Brady
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Mar 1865
Classmark:  DAR 160: 276
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4790
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