To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 5 March [1867?]
Summary
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867?] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1394 |
From Edward Blyth [2–30 March 1867]
Summary
Discussion of origin of domestic sheep races. Some comments on the yak and the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2–30 Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5337 |
From E. A. Darwin 22 [March 1867]
Summary
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5342 |
To E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung [19 March 1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | [19 Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5425 |
From Alfred Newton 1 March 1867
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5426 |
From E. A. Darwin 3 March 1867
Summary
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5428 |
From Fritz Müller 4 March 1867
Summary
Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5429 |
To Alfred Newton 4 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about the dotterel.
CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5430 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 March [1867]
Summary
Asks whether WBT can carry out poultry mating experiments for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5431 |
To Frederic William Farrar 5 March 1867
Summary
Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 5 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5432 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 6 March [1867]
Summary
Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5433 |
From F. W. Farrar 7 March [1867]
Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5434 |
From Francis Trevelyan Buckland 9 March 1867
Summary
Has been hunting for an otter-hound for CD.
Hopes CD will visit his museum at the Horticultural [Society].
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 362 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5435 |
From A. R. Wallace 11 March [1867]
Summary
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5437 |
From Henry Walter Bates 11 March 1867
Summary
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5438 |
From Benjamin Clarke 12 March 1867
Summary
Requests CD’s subscription to his On systematic botany and zoology [1870]. "Progressive development" is a leading principle of his work.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 157/1, 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5439 |
To A. R. Wallace [12–17] March [1867]
Summary
Asks to be kept informed on gaudy caterpillars.
Problems of his work on man; scope and role of sexual selection.
Indulgence of interest in expression is simply a "hobby-horse". Will see whether he can get queries inserted in an Indian newspaper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [12–17] Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 80–83v) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5440 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 March 1867
Summary
Has been persuaded to accept BAAS Presidency.
On Charles Naudin’s discovery of seeds of Chamaerops fertilised by the date-palm.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 145–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5441 |
From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 15 March 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for permission to translate Variation into Russian. The translation will be guided by his brother Alexander, a follower of Darwin,
whose articles on the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates he forwards.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5443 |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Clarke, Benjamin | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (61) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (3) |