From John Wood 11 April 1871
Summary
Emotional states leading to contraction of the platysma. Contraction of skin muscles.
| Author: | John Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7674 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … Wood, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Wood 11 April 1871 …
- … see Duchenne 1862 , p. 36). CD cites both Duchenne and Wood in Expression , p. 181. …
- … DAR 181: 141 John Wood London, Wimpole St, 68 11 Apr 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD’s letter to Wood has not been found, but …
- … see the letter from John Wood, 6 April 1871 . CD had been making enquiries about the …
- … about to undergo surgery (see letter to Francis Darwin, 25 March [1871] ). Edith Wood , …
- … John Wood (b. …
- … 1868), Margaret Wood, …
- … Mary Wood, and …
- … Sarah Wood. …
- … Wood’s observations of the platysma myoides contracting during vomiting, nausea, and …
- … p. 302. The family has not been identified. Wood quotes Shakespeare’s Hamlet , 1.5. …
- … CD refers to Wood’s observations in Expression , p. …
- … 182. Wood describes the contraction of the scrotum in reaction …
- … to contact with cold. Wood refers to Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne and Duchenne 1862 , …
- … and remain, | Yours most truly | John Wood *The expression commonly used of “a fallen …
From S. V. Wood Sr to Charles Lyell 30 September 1873
Summary
Sends proofs of pages on shells with revised species names. Discusses Crag Moll, Sutton and Butley Red Grag, and Scrobicularia beds. Son asks him to thank Lyell for extract from Darwin’s book.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6422-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9077F |
Matches: 18 hits
- … Wood, S. V. Lyell, Charles …
- … From S. V. Wood Sr to Charles Lyell 30 September 1873 …
- … Collections (Gen.117/6422-3) Searles Valentine Wood Brentwood, Essex 30 Sept 1873 Charles …
- … that bore a resemblance to their parents. For Wood’s view, see the letter from S. …
- … V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell, 19 September 1873 . …
- … apple Yours very truly | Searles V. Wood Sir Cha s . Lyell Bar t . P.S. The four shells …
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Wood, Searles Valentine. 1848–61. A monograph …
- … vols. London: Palaeontographical Society. Wood, Searles Valentine. 1871. Supplement to the …
- … Wood’s son, …
- … Searles Valentine Wood Jr, had sent Lyell the proof-sheets of …
- … the supplement to his father’s work, Crag Mollusca ( Wood 1873 ; see letter from S. …
- … V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell, 19 September 1873 and n. …
- … fossil mollusc, is now Yoldia limatula ; Wood originally identified the species as Nucula …
- … Yoldia myalis . The Crag Mollusca ( Wood 1848–61 ) and its supplements were published by …
- … to the first supplement appeared in Wood 1871 . The red crag, a shelly sand stained red by …
- … Palaeontographical Society 25: i–xxxi, 1–98. Wood, Searles Valentine. 1873. Supplement to …
- … Pleistocene in Suffolk and Essex. S. V. Wood Jr had asked Lyell’s secretary, Arabella …
- … Variation for him (see letter from S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell, 27 September 1873 ). …
From T. W. Wood 16 June 1870
Summary
Argus pheasant.
| Author: | Thomas William Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7235 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From T. W. Wood 16 June 1870 …
- … Wood, T. W. Darwin, C. R. …
- … remain, | Dear Sir, | Yours faithfully, | T. W. Wood. Charles Darwin Esq. F.R.S. &c— &c— …
- … DAR 181: 148 Thomas William Wood London, Hampstead Rd 16 June 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Wood, Thomas W. 1870. The courtship of birds. Student and Intellectual …
- … even when the feathers were fluffed up and separated. Wood 1870 , second plate, fig. …
- … h. CD did not use Wood’s diagrams from the Field in Descent. …
- … Wood refers to the ocellated spots on the plumage of the argus pheasant; see …
- … letter from T. W. Wood, 14 June 1870 . The letter to which …
- … this is a reply has not been found. Wood’s letter to the Field , 28 May 1870, p. 457, …
- … the gold pheasant ( Chrysolophus pictus ). Wood was interested in these feathers because …
From T. W. Wood [after 26 June 1870]
Summary
Is surprised to find CD disagrees about the argus [see 7229]. TWW finds others he has consulted, including Edward Blyth, agree with him.
| Author: | Thomas William Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 26 June 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7211 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Wood, T. W. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. W. Wood [after 26 June 1870] …
- … DAR 181: 146 Thomas William Wood unstated [after 26 June 1870] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Wood, Thomas W. 1870. The courtship of birds. Student and Intellectual …
- … Sir, | Very faithfully yours, | T. W. Wood. C. Darwin Esq. F.R.S. P.S. Is not this …
- … of birds in the Student and Intellectual Observer ( Wood 1870 ; see letter from T. …
- … W. Wood, 14 June 1870) . …
- … Wood refers to the gardens of the Zoological Society of London at Regent’s Park. …
- … between this letter and the letters from T. W. Wood, 14 June 1870 and 16 June …
- … 1870 , and by the mention of Wood’s missing CD at the Zoological Gardens on Sunday. CD was …
- … that period was 26 June. See letters from T. W. Wood, 14 June 1870 and 16 June 1870 . …
- … Edward Blyth . Wood refers to his article on the courtship …
From John Wood 6 April 1871
Summary
Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].
| Author: | John Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 145–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7661 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Wood, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Wood 6 April 1871 …
- … DAR 87: 145–6 John Wood London, Wimpole St, 68 6 Apr 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD refers to Descent , but the numbers are page numbers referring to J. Wood 1869 . …
- … Descent 1: 19. The emphasis was added by Wood. See letter from Hubert Airy, 3 April 1871 , …
- … cited these remarks in Expression , p. 302. Wood refers to Giovanni Domenico Santorini . …
- … cranial nerve. See Descent 1: 109 n. 5. Wood refers to ‘On a group of varieties of the …
- … of the Royal Society of London ( J. Wood 1869 ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin …
- … these pages in his copy; see n. 7, above. Wood refers to Philip Henry Pye-Smith ( Pye- …
- … Turner 1867 ), and Descent 1: 19 n. 22. Wood did not deliver a paper at the Royal Society …
- … Royal Society of Edinburgh 6 (1866–9): 65–6. Wood, John. 1869. On a group of varieties of …
- … remain Dear Sir | Yours most truly | John Wood Cha s . Darwin Esqre FRS. Down. Beckenham | …
From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 27 September 1873
Summary
Returns CD’s books and discusses apples and Crags at Sudbury.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6330-1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9075F |
Matches: 15 hits
- … Wood, S. V. Lyell, Charles …
- … From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 27 September 1873 …
- … Collections (Gen.117/6330-1) Searles Valentine Wood Brentwood, Essex 27 Sept 1873 Charles …
- … species or permanent varieties to spread among the hedges & woods as they have done …
- … this letter CD referred to apples that Lyell had received from Wood and forwarded to CD. …
- … Wood was moving to Suffolk (see n. …
- … 6, below). Wood had sent Lyell proof-sheets of the second supplement to the Crag …
- … Mollusca (see letter from S. V. Wood to Charles Lyell, 19 September 1873 and n. 1). …
- … than the original wild crab-apple), while Wood stated that garden apples grown from seed …
- … state but became barren (see letter from S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell, 19 September …
- … 1873 ). Wood was moving from Essex to Suffolk (see letter from S. …
- … V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell, 19 September 1873 and n. …
- … 10). Searles Valentine Wood Sr died in 1880. William Whitaker published his discovery of …
- … Sir Charles | Yours faithfully | Searles V Wood Jn Sir Cha s Lyell. P.S. At Polstead in …
- … sterility was no doubt augmented by the Wood being cut occasionally to keep it down to a …
From T. W. Wood 24 April 1871
Summary
John Murray has commissioned him to redraw two birds. Hopes to re-do all of the birds taken from Brehm’s Thierleben.
| Author: | Thomas William Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 22–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7711 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From T. W. Wood 24 April 1871 …
- … Wood, T. W. Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 89: 22–3 Thomas William Wood London, Stanhope St, 221 24 Apr 1871 Charles Robert …
- … pumilum , Smith’s dwarf chameleon. CD added Wood’s observation to Descent 2d ed. , p. …
- … Field , 8 April 1871, containing a woodcut by Wood of some feathers of the Argus pheasant, …
- … Dear Sir, | Yours very truly, | T. W. Wood. P.S. I sent you the “Field” of Saturday …
- … John Murray was CD’s publisher. Wood re-drew several woodcuts for Descent 2d ed. , …
- … letter to P. L. Sclater, 4 January [1871] and n. 3. Wood refers to Descent and to Henry …
- … Walter Bates . Wood refers to Descent 2: 35–6 and to Albert Günther . Chamaeleon …
From John Wood 19 April 1871
Summary
Movement of hair; action of occipito-frontalis muscle.
| Author: | John Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7699 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Wood, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … From John Wood 19 April 1871 …
- … DAR 181: 142 John Wood London, Wimpole St, 68 19 Apr 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Expression , pp. 95–104. See letter from John Wood, 11 April 1871 and n. 1. CD compares …
- … Wood refers to Rudolf Albert von Kölliker and Kölliker 1869–72 . …
- … No letter from CD to Wood on this subject has been found, …
- … but see the letter from John Wood, 11 April 1871 , and Correspondence vol. 18, letter to …
- … remain Dear Sir | Yours very sincerely | John Wood P.S. | Will let you have bye & bye our …
From Thomas W. Wood 14 June 1870
Summary
Orange-tip butterfly at rest imitates a flower.
The argus pheasant cannot be explained by natural selection.
| Author: | Thomas William Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7229 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Thomas W. Wood 14 June 1870 …
- … Wood, T. W. Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 181: 147 Thomas William Wood London, Hampstead Rd 14 June 1870 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … resembled the flower-head of wild parsley, on which it rested at night. Wood 1870 . …
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Wood, Thomas W. 1870. The courtship of birds. …
- … remain | Sir, | Your obedient servant, | T. W. Wood. Charles Darwin Esq. F.R.S. &c. &c. …
- … the Field newspaper, 28 May 1870, p. 457, Wood argued that since when the Argus pheasant …
- … preserve the three-dimensional illusion. Wood thought that this was indeed the case. See …
From Searles Valentine Wood 18 February 1862
Summary
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3452 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … production 4.4] crossed brown crayon Top of first page : ‘S. Wood | Feb 18 | 1862’ ink …
- … From Searles Valentine Wood 18 February 1862 …
- … Wood, S. V. Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 181: 144 Searles Valentine Wood Brentwood 18 Feb 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Wood, Searles Valentine. 1861–77. A monograph …
- … me Dear Sir | Yours very truly | Searles Wood Feb. 18. 62 Chas Darwin Esq 2.1 Genus … …
- … The reference is to the first part of Wood’s monograph on Eocene bivalves, which was …
- … published in December 1861 ( S. V. Wood 1861–77 ). Evidently CD’s question concerned …
From Searles Valentine Wood 5 June 1846
Summary
Variation in Mollusca.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From Searles Valentine Wood 5 June 1846 …
- … Wood, S. V. Darwin, C. R. …
- … DAR 181: 143 Searles Valentine Wood Kentish Town 5 June 1846 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD’s query to Wood has not been located; however, CD appears to have asked about …
- … in molluscs ( Natural selection , p. 106). Wood was an expert on the fossils of the East …
- … crag of Norfolk. This observation by Wood was later cited by CD in Natural selection , …
- … me Dear Sir | Yours truly | Searles Wood June 5. 1846. crossed pencil scored pencil 4.2 …
To Charles Wood 24 May 1838
Summary
Asks for permission to have a copy of the published Admiralty chart of the Island of Ascension. The engraved chart will add value to the geological observations to be published in the natural history of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Wood, Lord Halifax, 1st Viscount Halifax |
| Date: | 24 May 1838 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (ADM 1/4548 PRO D 170) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-415A |
From Searles Valentine Wood 16 July 1866
Summary
Barley growing from old oat stalks.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5156 |
From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 19 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for proofs of the Supplement to Crag Mollusca. Sends crab apples.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6327-9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059G |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Wood, S. V. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 19 September 1873 …
- … Collections (Gen.117/6327-9) Searles Valentine Wood Brentwood, Essex 19 Sept 1873 Charles …
- … s fruit, vegetable, and flower market. The Wood family came from Melton, Woodbridge, …
- … Sir Charles | faithfully yours Searles V. Wood Jn PS. Do not return the apple specimens …
- … Arabella Burton Buckley was Lyell’s secretary. Wood’s father, …
- … Searles Valentine Wood Sr, had published A …
- … monograph of the crag Mollusca ( Wood 1848–61 ); the second part of the supplement to this …
- … 1873 and published the following February ( Wood 1873 ). Crag is the geological term given …
- … 11th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Wood, Searles Valentine. 1848–61. A monograph …
- … vols. London: Palaeontographical Society. Wood, Searles Valentine. 1873. Supplement to the …
Woods, Robin W. and Woods, Anne. 1997. Atlas of breeding birds of the Falkland Islands. Oswestry: Anthony Nelson.
To Charles Lyell 1 June 1872
Summary
Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.418); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6267-8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8366 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees. …
- … as well as my paper. I am Dear Sir Charles | yours faithfully | Searles V. Wood Jn …
- … Correspondence vol. 14, letter from S. V. Wood, 16 July 1866) . CD had discussed the …
- … 1872 My dear Lyell I am much obliged for M r Wood’s interesting letter. There is plenty of …
- … has not often been observed as in M r Wood’s cases. Sometimes the diversity is surprizing …
- … care by Decaisne. The most remarkable point in Mr Wood’s account is the sterility of his …
- … Searles Valentine Wood (1830–84). In Variation 1: 350, CD suggested that seedlings raised …
- … in Variation 1: 399. Searles Valentine Wood (1798–1880). In the most recent edition of his …
- … which was the tenth ( C. Lyell 1867–8 ). Wood refers to the eleventh edition of Lyell’s …
- … Pickworth Woodward . Searles Valentine Wood (1798–1880) had given CD information about the …
- … S. America & in Australia. I return M r Wood’s letter with many thanks & remain | yours …
- … of man ( C. Lyell 1863 , pp. 157–60). Wood also refers to Lyell’s Principles of …
From J. B. Innes 14 July 1879
Summary
Reports finding a wood pigeon’s nest on the ground, though woods are nearby.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12157 |
From George Henslow 22 November 1869
Summary
Observations on fertilisation of Lapageria rosea by E. G. Henderson, florist of St John’s Wood.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7004 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … DAR 166: 170 George Henslow St John’s Wood 22 Nov 1869 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … on fertilisation of Lapageria rosea by E. G. Henderson, florist of St John’s Wood. …
- … S t John’s Parsonage | S t John’s Wood Nov. 22 /69 Dear Sir M r Henderson Jun …
- … r . florist of S. Johns wood informed me that Lapageria rosea never sets seed unless …
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Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The …
