To [?] 21 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6952 |
From T. S. Cobbold 1 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks CD for parasitic worms [see 6858] specimens. Supports "fact of succession".
Author: | Thomas Spencer Cobbold |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6876 |
From William Bowman 3 September [1869]
Summary
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6877 |
To Frans Cornelis Donders 6 September 1869
Summary
Asks about Charles Bell’s statement concerning contraction of eye muscles. Asks whether such contraction is related to secretion of tears.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 6 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6878 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1869
Summary
Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.
Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".
F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 30–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6879 |
From Walter Elliot 7 September 1869
Summary
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
Author: | Walter Elliot |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6880 |
To Fritz Müller 8 September [1869]
Summary
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 8 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6881 |
From James Orton 8 September 1869
Summary
Sends a lower molar of fossil horse from Quito. Curious as to its species, especially in view of Owen’s findings in Mexico.
Author: | James Orton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6882 |
From Edward Burnett Tylor 8 September 1869
Summary
Wishes to borrow a paper by R. G. Haliburton on superstitions connected with sneezing [see 5635].
Author: | Edward Burnett Tylor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6883 |
From John Blackwall 8 September 1869
Summary
His observations on young of Theridion lineatum reveal no characteristics distinguishing one from another;
quotes N. Westring on stridulation in Theridion serratipes [see Descent 1: 339].
Author: | John Blackwall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A80–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6884 |
To Gustav Jäger 9 September 1869
Summary
Admires GJ’s book [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1869)].
Asks about plumage of rejected male pheasant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
Date: | 9 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6885 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 September [1869]
Summary
F. C. Donders has been to lunch – a good "Darwinian"!
JDH’s speech of resignation [as BAAS President] at Exeter was charming [Rep. BAAS (1869)]. JDH should have been an ambassador.
Has received Indian census.
Is unusually well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 151–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6886 |
From Edward Blyth 13 September 1869
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6887 |
From John Beddoe 13 September 1869
Summary
Encloses last instalment of data on colour of women’s hair and conjugal selection. Fears results are inconclusive.
Author: | John Beddoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A17–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6888 |
From George Cupples 13 September 1869
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6889 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 13 September 1869
Summary
Since March has been living in Heidelberg, where his wife is studying mathematics and physics.
The Russian translation of Variation has been printed in his absence; he will bring a copy to Down if he receives one from Russia.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6890 |
To Edward Blyth 14 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks EB for his attempts to find out about the mandrills;
sorry to hear that he has been so badly treated by the manager of Land and Water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 14 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6891 |
From Frederick Smith 14 September 1869
Author: | Frederick Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6892 |
To Samuel Hubbard Scudder 15 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks SHS for papers he has sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Hubbard Scudder |
Date: | 15 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6893 |
From J. T. Moggridge 16 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Although Thomas Meehan’s paper ["Variations in Epigaea repens", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868): 153–6] shows great variability in this genus, JTM sees a need to qualify the generalisation that there is as much variation in the wild as under domestication. He knows no evidence for a constant proportion between variability in the wild and under cultivation.
Observations on correlation between leaf size and exposure to sun and shade.
Has evidence for two varieties of Ophrys apifera in England, which live in mutually exclusive colonies.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6894 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
Beddoe, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Günther, Albert | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Donders, F. C. | (1) |
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Günther, Albert | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
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Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Reuter, Adolf | (2) |
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Blackwall, John | (1) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
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Cobbold, T. S. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Donders, F. C. | (1) |
Elliot, Walter | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Henslow, George | (1) |
Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
Jäger, Gustav | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Orton, James | (1) |
Scudder, S. H. | (1) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
Tait, W. C. | (1) |
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