From Charles Lawford Acland 17 August 1870
Summary
Is studying Variation, especially Pangenesis. Reports earlier notion of Dr Robert Lee, that resemblance between husband and wife may be partly owing to her having man’s blood circulating in her during pregnancies; thus spouses most resemble each other in large families.
Author: | Charles Lawford Acland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: A7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7303 |
From G. H. Darwin [4 February 1870]
Summary
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7096 |
To George Cupples 3 November [1870]
Summary
Will collect the "precious animal" [deerhound puppy] from King’s Cross.
Thanks GC for information on the perch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 3 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7355 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Cupples, George …
- … r Cupples A servant shall be at King’s Cross on Tuesday 8 th . at 9 a.m. ready to receive the precious animal. He shall then take him to some inn & give him water & let him loose for a short time in a stable, & then bring him here at once. So please direct C. Darwin “ …
From John Michels 3 May 1870
Summary
Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?
Author: | John Michels |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10495 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 February 1870
Summary
Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.
RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7095 |
To Gustav Jäger 17 February 1870
Summary
Encloses his letter to GJ [6885], which was returned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
Date: | 17 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7111 |
From George Henslow 3 March 1870
Summary
Experiments with Lapageria.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7126 |
From Francis Galton 17 March 1870
Summary
Experiments are not going well, but the quantity of blood transfused was small.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7139 |
From Francis Galton 22 March 1870
Summary
Variety in rabbits less than he hoped for; will try a new mode of transfusion.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7143 |
To Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell 20 April 1870
Summary
Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell |
Date: | 20 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7168A |
From W. T. Preyer 9 May 1870
Summary
Sends his "Charles Darwin, eine biographische Skizze" [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7181 |
To W. T. Preyer 15 May 1870
Summary
Comments on WP’s biographical article on CD. Asks him to thank O. F. Peschel for his present of the publication [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 15 May 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 256–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7190 |
To Adam Sedgwick 1 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks AS for his kindness towards himself and his family. Looks back with great satisfaction to his last visit ("as it will probably prove") to Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 1 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Stanford University Department of Special Collections (Stephen Jay Gould Collection, M1437, Box 958) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7213F |
To James Paget 4 June [1870]
Summary
Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7217 |
From Francis Galton 25 June 1870
Summary
Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: A21–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7245 |
To Frederick Bates 26 June [1870?]
Summary
Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
Date: | 26 June [1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7245A |
From William Farr 16 July 1870
Summary
Discusses the Census Bill and CD’s attempt to get questions on consanguineous marriage added to the census.
Author: | William Farr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7279 |
From William Farr 6 August 1870
Summary
Is glad John Lubbock made the fight he did [to amend Census Bill to enable insertion of questions on consanguineous marriages].
Author: | William Farr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7296 |
To Robert Main 6 October 1870
Summary
Regrets he is unable to correct his "little manual" ["Geology" in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)]. Recommends that John Phillips revise it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Main |
Date: | 6 Oct 1870 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.384) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7335 |
To Alexander Stuart Strahan 29 November 1870
Summary
A recommendation for George Cupples who has applied for a government pension: "I have corresponded with him on scientific subjects during several years. On some very intricate points he has been so kind as not only to collect, at the cost of much trouble, information from various sources, but has likewise made for me valuable observations".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stuart Strahan |
Date: | 29 Nov 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 280v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7385 |
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