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From William Erasmus Darwin   [January 1869]

Summary

A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [Jan 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6541A

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  • … 8 . 16 . 3 Monmouth 54 . 9 . 7 Shrewsbury } 11 . 14 . Street mortgage Castle Morton tithes …

From George Cupples   [4–10 November 1869]

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Weight statistics on deerhound puppies born 23 Sept 1869.

Author:  George Cupples
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [4–10 Nov 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 83: 147
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6970

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  • … First weighed Oct r 7 h .  when 14 days old Bitch—— 3 lbs 7 oz Dog —— 3 – 11 – Dog —— …
  • … 3 – 11 – Dog —— 3 – 5 Dog —— 3 – 3 3 4 Weighed again Oct r 14 when 3 weeks old— Bitch —– …

To A. R. Wallace   21 October 1869

Summary

Anticipates that all their differences are fated to find expression in projected book on man.

Offers his early MS with useful references related to the distribution of animals. Hopes ARW’s book will not be "little".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  21 Oct 1869
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 46434: 189–90); Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6951

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  • … manuscript is in DAR 14; see also Natural selection , chapter 11. CD refers to his stay in …

To Fritz Müller   8 September [1869]

Summary

Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.

Experiments on self-sterility.

Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].

Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  8 Sept [1869]
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6881

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  • … see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 March 1869  and n.  11). See letter to Fritz Müller, 18  …

To Fritz Müller   18 July [1869]

Summary

Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].

Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.

The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.

Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  18 July [1869]
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6835

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  • … see letter to Fritz Müller, 14 March 1869  and n.  11. ) )See letter to George Bentham, …

To J. D. Hooker   19 November [1869]

Summary

Glad to know about C.B.

Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.

Likes Academy.

Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].

The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.

Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  19 Nov [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 159–61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6997

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  • 14 November 1869 . For more on Hooker’s and CD’s use of ‘Murchisonian’, see Correspondence vol.  11, …

From Anton Dohrn   30 December 1869

Summary

He has gone through the whole embryology of the Crustacea and has arrived at a pretty well-established genealogy of the whole class; has even tried to write a history of the whole tribe. Finds he cannot adopt the old separation of Orders in the Class; the limits between them are indistinct.

Would like to study embryology of Limulus. Asks CD’s help in obtaining a female specimen.

Outlines his proposal to establish a marine zoological station.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Dec 1869
Classmark:  DAR 162: 204
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7038

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  • … larval stage ( ibid. , pp.  14–15; Müller 1864a , pp.  9–11). Entomostraca is a former …

From John Beddoe   [22 August – 12 September 1869]

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Results of CD’s examination of data subvert JB’s former inferences. Will send abstracts from the data for his paper on colour of hair of single and married women 35 to 45 years old ["On the supposed increasing prevalence of dark hair in England", Anthropol. Rev. 1 (1863): 310–12].

Author:  John Beddoe
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Aug – 12 Sept 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 85: A13–14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6809

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  • … 2 13 5 14 1 2 28 1 2 95 1 2 60 26 1 2 Total 32 Total 225 Women between 25 and 45 11 1 2 17 …

From A. W. Bennett to Nature   8 November 1869

Summary

Discusses cross-fertilisation in Vinca.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Nature
Date:  8 Nov 1869
Classmark:  Nature 1 (1869): 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6978F

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  • 14 September 1861]. Species in the genus Vinca are usually called periwinkles. Bennett 1869 , p.  11. …

To George Bentham   10 May [1869]

Summary

Sends a letter (and seeds) from Fritz Müller about a strange monstrous form of Begonia found wild in Brazil. Asks GB whether it is worth communicating to Linnean Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Bentham
Date:  10 May [1869]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 680)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6743

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  • 14 March 1869 . Müller’s letter was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 3 June 1869, and appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 11 ( …

From J. D. Hooker   24 June 1869

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Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.

Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.

F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 103: 18–21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6800

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  • … June [1869] and nn.  10 and 11. See letter to A.  R.  Wallace, 14 April 1869  and n.  12. …

From Fritz Müller   18 October 1869

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Describes experiments to test the fertility of Abutilon, which appears self-sterile,

and briefly mentions dichogamy in Eschscholzia.

Author:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Oct 1869
Classmark:  DAR 76: B178, Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6943

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  • 11). Müller may refer to seeds of Eschscholzia californica sent by CD with his letter of 3 April [1868] ( Correspondence vol.  16). CD sent more seeds of E.  californica shortly after his letter of 14  …

From William Buckler   [after 8 June 1869]

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List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].

Author:  William Buckler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 8 June 1869]
Classmark:  DAR 85: B127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6766

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  • 14 Xanthia cerago 4 4 12 Xanthia silago 4 3 1 Cosmia trapezina 1 4 Epunda nigra 1 1 4 Cucullia Scrophulariæ 1 27 Cucullia Lychnitis 3 6 11

To Samuel Hubbard Scudder   15 September [1869]

Summary

Thanks SHS for papers he has sent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Date:  15 Sept [1869]
Classmark:  Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6893

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  • 14. Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. 1868. Supplement to a list of the butterflies of New England. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 11: …

From Max Schmidt   14 June 1869

Summary

Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.

Author:  Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 177: 57
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6781

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  • 14 Juni 1869. Sehr geehrter Herr! Mehrfache geschäftliche Reisen und Überhäufung mit Arbeiten haben mich bis jetzt verhindert Ihre geehrte Zuschrift vom 29 April zu beantworten und ich bitte dies freundlichst entschuldigen zu wollen. Leider bin ich auch jetzt nicht in der Lage, Ihnen die gewünschte Auskunft zu geben, da unser Garten nicht ein Paar ausgewachsene Mandrillen sondern nur einen männlichen Drill (Mormon leucophaeus) besitzt, welcher sich bereits seit 11  …

From Orange Judd & Co   21 April 1869

Summary

Reports on the sales of Variation; discusses the difficulties of inserting additions and corrections.

Author:  Orange Judd & Co.
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Apr 1869
Classmark:  DAR 173: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6709

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  • 14, letters to Asa Gray , 16 April [1866] and 4 August [1866] ). Later editions of Origin in the United States continued to be published by D.  Appleton & Co mpany ( Freeman 1977 ). CD recorded the receipt of £50  in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS) for 11  …

From George Cupples   11 March 1869

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Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.

Author:  George Cupples
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Mar 1869
Classmark:  DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6657

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  • 14 3 — 3 9* Weight June 24 th . Dogs { N o 1 — 10 6 3 4 5 6 weeks old 2 — 10 6 1 2 3 — 10 6 1 4 4 — 10 6* Bitches { N o 1 — 7 1 2 oz 2 — 7 3 4 3 — 3 12* Weight July 2 d . Dogs { N o . 1 — 11lbs 2oz 6 when fully 7 weeks old 2 — 11

From L. E. Becker   29 December 1869

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Asks CD to which journal she should send her Lychnis paper and whether she may quote extracts from his letters to her.

Author:  Lydia Ernestine Becker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Dec 1869
Classmark:  DAR 160: 118
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7037

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  • 14 October 1869 ). A summary of Becker’s work on Lychnis , as reported at the Exeter meeting of the British Association, appeared in the 1869 volume of Journal of Botany ( Becker 1869b ); a quotation is included from a letter of CD’s to Becker that must have been written on 26 or 27 May 1863 ( Calendar no.   4185g, to be published in next supplement; see also Correspondence vol.  11, …
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