To George Maw 13 January 1869
Summary
Thanks GM for offer of observations. Would be interested to know when the horns of merino rams first appear,
and has long wished for living specimens of Drosophyllum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 13 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6552 |
From George Maw 14 January 1869
Summary
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6553 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1869
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6554 |
From George Cupples 15 January 1869
Summary
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6555 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 January [1869]
Summary
Finds JDH’s comments of utmost value. Answers some questions, and asks new ones. Transmission of variations. Relation of uniformity of structure to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 112–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6557 |
From William Winwood Reade 17 January 1869
Summary
Expressions of emotions in Gold Coast tribes.
Differences between males and females in sexual characteristics.
Castrated rams lose horns and manes.
Female members of tribes have no difficulty getting the husbands they want.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 165–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6558 |
To George Maw 17 January [1869]
Summary
Describes Drosophyllum and its habitat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 17 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6559 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1869
Summary
Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 4–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6560 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 20 January 1869
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6561 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 21 January 1869
Summary
Sends CD another piebald potato and a spray of holly, from Mr Fish, discussed in Gardeners’ Chronicle of 22 Jan [1869, p. 83].
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6564 |
To W. K. Bridgman 21 January [1869]
Summary
Discusses fertilisation of Aucuba and Polygala.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kencely Bridgman |
Date: | 21 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6565 |
From George Cupples 21 January 1869
Summary
Forwards reply from [Peter Robertson] head forester for Marquis of Breadalbane on development of horns in Scottish deer.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 290; DAR 86: A81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6566 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 January [1869]
Summary
Response to letter about dedication of Malay Archipelago and several scientific papers.
Changes in 5th ed. of Origin.
Now feels individual differences of paramount importance. Fleeming Jenkin has convinced him about "single variations".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 165–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6567 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 January 1869]
Summary
No paradox that unimportant characters are important systematically. This view removes heavy burden from CD’s shoulders. Relief that JDH does not object.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 114—15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6568 |
From J. V. Carus 22 January 1869
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A43–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6569 |
To James Orton 23 January [1869]
Summary
Thanks JO for intending to dedicate his The Andes and the Amazon to him.
The discovery of marine shells high up the Amazons CD finds extremely interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Orton |
Date: | 23 Jan [1869] |
Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6570 |
From W. K. Bridgman 23 January 1869
Summary
Is assembling apparatus of lenses and reflector to observe flower from opening to first shedding of pollen, and to determine whether fertilisation is by night- or day-feeders.
Will also examine reasons for absence of nectar in Polygala linaria.
Author: | William Kencely Bridgman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6571 |
From T. C. Eyton [before 23 January 1869]
Summary
Is trying to determine conditions governing whether or not a salmon will rise for a fly.
Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 23 Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6572 |
To T. C. Eyton 24 January 1869
Summary
Has heard that book by Alphonse M[ilne]-Edwards [? Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques, 4 vols. (1867–71)] is excellent.
Asks when horns appear on young male fallow deer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 24 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.359) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6573 |
From Archibald McNeill 24 January 1869
Summary
Answer to CD’s query as to whether horns on deer are for use or ornament. [See Descent 2: 252–3.]
Author: | Archibald McNeill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 175–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6574 |
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