From J. J. Weir 31 July 1872
Summary
On variegated leaves; a feature not inherited consistently.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8440 |
From G. R. Gray 8 April 1868
Author: | George Robert Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6105 |
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From Charles Pritchard 24 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on success of CD’s son [George].
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5797 |
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- … Darwin, Accept my most hearty congratulations on your Son’s grand Success. Your delight & that of M rs Darwin must indeed be enviably great. Omnes omnia bona dicere. May your Son’s entire career be after the model of this beginning Believe me | My dear M r Darwin | Yours sincerely | C. Pritchard Jan 24. 1868 | …
From F. F. Hallett 21 May 1875
Summary
Insists that he, not Le Couteur, was the first to recognise and exploit variation within wheat varieties. Disturbed he was not acknowledged in Variation.
Author: | Frederic Francis Hallett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9988 |
From E. L. Layard [September–October 1856]
Author: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept–Oct 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 185–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1897 |
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From A. R. Wallace 4 October 1868
Summary
Sexual differences in coloration. Sexual selection versus natural selection as explanations. ARW continues to argue against sexual selection, saying that natural selection, in keeping the female dull for protection, would account for differences in sexual colouring more effectively than inheritance and partial transmission of sexually selected male colours. Colours of female birds of paradise. Protective coloration. Disagrees with CD on coincidence of hidden nests and bright colours of females.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B68–69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6408 |
From William Masters 8 May 1860
Author: | William Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 166–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2792 |
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From Thomas Hutton 8 March 1856
Summary
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
Author: | Thomas Hutton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 283 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1838 |
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From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
From B. P. Brent 15 June 1861
Summary
On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.
On his breeding of guinea-pigs.
Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3184 |
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From J. V. Carus 14 November 1871
Summary
News of progress of German editions of Origin
and Descent.
Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8067 |
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- … Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Settegast, Hermann Gustav. 1868. …
From Leonard Blomefield 12 March 1877
Summary
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10889 |
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letter | (12) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Gray, G. R. | (1) |
Hallett, F. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Gray, G. R. | (1) |
Hallett, F. F. | (1) |
Hutton, Thomas | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Layard, E. L. | (1) |
Masters, William | (1) |
Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (1) |