To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 26 January [1863]
Summary
Asks FB’s help in identifying an article in The Field about the fins of fishes growing again after being cut off, and inquiring whether he has heard of the re-growth of organs in the mammalia or birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (23 June 1993, lot 146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948F |
To John Lubbock 5 April [1863]
Summary
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4075 |
From Francis Boott 23 January 1863
Summary
His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.
Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.
| Author: | Francis Boott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3938 |
To F. T. Buckland 1 February [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for information; will write about the fins.
His health is weak and he is "almost smothered" with facts and inquiries, so is trying to restrict the scope of his present work, on variation under domestication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3961 |
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- … Buckland, [before 1 February 1863] . CD had received information from Brian Houghton Hodgson that dog and fox crosses had occurred in India (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 October 1848 ; see also Correspondence vol. 2, Questions for Mr Wynne, [February–July 1838]). In reviewing the evidence for the intercrossing of dogs with other species in Variation , CD repeated two further anecdotes indicating that some breeds of dog might interbreed with foxes (see Variation 1: 31–3). William …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Buckland, Frank | (2) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
