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 E. A. Darwin [1870–81]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1870–81] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12379 |
From Benjamin Clarke 1 November [1870]
Summary
Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.
Writes of a recent book.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 26 (EH 88206077) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5662 |
From St G. J. Mivart [25 June 1870?]
Summary
Sets a time for CD to call.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5927 |
From Francis Darwin [before 4 January 1870]
Summary
Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Jan 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6520F |
From Gilbert William Child 26 January [1870]
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6579 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
From G. W. Child 16 February [1870]
Summary
Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6617 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 May 1870]
Summary
Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.
Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 May 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6964 |
From W. E. Darwin [c. 17 February 1870]
Summary
Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1870] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7039F |
From G. H. Darwin [20 April 1870]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Apr 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7046 |
From Federico Delpino [1870]
Summary
Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7055 |
From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
From E. A. Darwin 21 [December 1870]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 [Dec 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7067 |
From Charles Ottley Groom Napier January 1870
Summary
COG-N sends, at the request of the late Lord Brougham, a copy of his work, The book of nature and the book of man [1870].
Author: | Charles Ottley Groom Napier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7068 |
From William Winwood Reade [c. 8 or 9 April 1870]
Summary
Brief observations on expression in Africa.
Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.
The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 or 9] Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7069 |
From Charles Boner 8 January 1870
Summary
Is glad CD liked Chamois hunting [in Bavaria (1853, 1860)].
Regrets CD’s poor health.
Sends his book, Transylvania [1865].
Author: | Charles Boner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7074 |
From Adolf Reuter 11 January 1870
Summary
Sends monstrous oranges,
red grape leaves,
and a bean with blue fruits (a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Dolichos species).
Author: | Adolf Reuter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7075 |
From Anton Dohrn 13 January 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for his support and for his cautionary advice.
Will send his work on embryology of arthropods as soon as it is finished [Bau und Entwicklung der Arthropoden (1870)].
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7076 |
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