To W. E. Darwin 21 and 22 April [1861?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 21 and 22 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3124 |
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 Samuel Birch 21 April [1861]
Summary
Regrets having troubled SB during his illness. His thanks for the assistance already given.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
Date: | 21 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, Correspondence, 1826–67: 1493 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3124A |
To Daniel Oliver 23 April [1861]
Summary
Congratulations on DO’s marriage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 23 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Newcastle University Special Collections (Spence Watson/Weiss Archive GB186 SW/6/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3125F |
To Oswald Heer? 20 April [1861?]
Summary
Thanks for correspondent’s Untersuchungen [? Über das Klima und die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject interesting and important.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 20 Apr [1861?] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765 |
To [Robert Chambers?] 13 April [1861]
Summary
Since his previous letter, has unexpectedly arranged to go to London next Tuesday.
Hopes to call on recipient.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | 13 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (item 25007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3117F |
From George Rolleston 16 April 1861
Summary
Index of Origin does not refer to variability of rudimentary organs mentioned at pp. 149, 168. Offers references to Rudolf Leuckart and to Franz von Leydig to support CD’s point.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3120 |
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 John Crawfurd 7 April 1861
Summary
Thanks JC for pamphlets.
"I do not believe in Metempsychosis nor in Genesis – & you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel–."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Crawfurd |
Date: | 7 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3114 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Crawfurd, John …
- … r . Crawfurd Very many thanks for your note & kind present of the two pamplets I felt sure the one I asked about, was by you: but I did not know whether you acknowledged it. I can now refer to it as read at Oxford in 186– I will look to Book about Indian dates. — I do not believe in metempsychosis nor in Genesis—& you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel— With sincere thanks | Yours very sincerely | C Darwin …
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 |
To the Field [before 27 April 1861]
Summary
Requests facts concerning the colour of the parents of true dun horses. His interest also in the colour and presence of spinal stripes of dun horses or ponies before they lose their first hair.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | The Field |
Date: | [before 27 Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3128A |
To Daniel Oliver 9 April [1861]
Summary
Asks DO to identify enclosed Fumaria or Corydalis flower, with springing hood adaptation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 9 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 6 (EH 88205990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3499 |
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 J. D. Hooker 11 April [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3116 |
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 |
To Robert Chambers 30 April [1861]
Summary
Thanks RC for "Ice and water" [in RC’s Edinburgh papers (1861)].
Comments on problem of scientific accuracy.
Discusses views of Thomas Davidson on the genealogy of brachiopods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | 30 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3130 |
From John Innes [before 6 April 1861]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3074 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [April 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3119 |
To Charles Lyell 12 April [1861]
Summary
Discusses progress of CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
CD had not thought of subsidence in connection with "roads" of Glen Roy.
Discusses habits of ants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.244) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3117 |
To Thomas Davidson 26 April 1861
Summary
Asks TD to carry out research on brachiopods to see whether the forms in one formation are intermediate between those above and below.
Describes unpublished study of spirifers by J. W. Salter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Davidson |
Date: | 26 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 372 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3128 |
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