To Anton Dohrn 4 January 1870
Summary
The Zoological Garden has only one old adult male of Limulus. When there were females, eggs were never observed.
Encloses a separate letter [7071] about AD’s scheme [for a zoological station].
Suggests AD be cautious [in his work]. "Caution is almost the soul of science."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 697); Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 2188, ff. 296-7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7070 |
From Adolf Reuter 11 January 1870
Summary
Sends monstrous oranges,
red grape leaves,
and a bean with blue fruits (a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Dolichos species).
| Author: | Adolf Reuter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7075 |
To Richard Kippist 10 January [1870 or 1871]
Summary
Is sending some books for the Linnean Society Library.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1870-1] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7434 |
From Gilbert William Child 26 January [1870]
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
| Author: | Gilbert William Child |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6579 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 5 January [1870]
Summary
Thanks ADB for Limulus.
Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7072 |
To James Crichton-Browne 31 January [1870]
Summary
Asks JC-B to return copy of Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] and sends some notes "as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 329 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7089 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 21 January 1870
Summary
Refers to "Devonshire Man"’s attack on him ["Professor Huxley’s last new theory", Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Jan 1870, p. 6]. His intention to answer – a waste, except for political bearing of Celt question ["Professor Huxley on Celts and Teutons", Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan 1870, p. 6].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 323 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7084 |
From John Brodie Innes 28 January 1870
Summary
JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7087 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
From Henry Walter Bates 17 January 1870
Summary
Returns CD’s MS [of entomological section of Descent] marked with suggested alterations.
Suggests qualifications about rudimentary horn in female Onitis furcifer [See Descent 1: 372].
Sends additional data on colour differences in sexes of longicorn Coleoptera [See Descent 1: 367–8].
Suggests a modification of CD’s view of female coloration that would bring him "nearly into harmony" with Wallace.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A44–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7082 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 January [1870]
Summary
Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].
Groans over [what is said about] man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 198–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7086 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Boner, Charles | (1) |
| Child, G. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Boner, Charles | (2) |
| Günther, Albert | (2) |
| Linnean Society | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Boner, Charles | (3) |
| Günther, Albert | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
| Linnean Society | (2) |
