From Alfred Newton 31 October 1863
Summary
Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4326 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … the British Museum . See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Alfred Newton, 29 March [ …
- … 1864] , and letter from Alfred Newton, 2 April 1864 . Newton gave his reasons for …
- … The reference is to Newton 1863 ; see letter from Alfred Newton, 21 March 1863 and n. 5. …
- … also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Alfred Newton, 29 March [1864] . Newton exhibited …
- … of seeds made in the 1850s (see letter from Alfred Newton, 21 March 1863 and n. 4). CD’s …
- … also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Alfred Newton, 2 April 1864 , and n. 4, below. …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 , and letter to Alfred Newton, 29 …
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 1867] and n. 5. See letter to Alfred Newton, 4 March [1867] and n. …
- … 6. See letter to Alfred Newton, 4 March [1867] and n. 3. …
- … for the young with Newton and Edward Blyth (see letter to Alfred Newton, 23 January [ …
- … and letter from Edward Blyth, 24 February 1867 ). See letter to Alfred Newton, 4 March [ …
- … Alfred Newton I asked M r . Booth, (after he had told me what I have mentioned) whether he had taken the trouble to ascertain the sexes of the birds he killed by dissection, & he said he had done so, & shewed me a very dingy looking cock bird that he had obtained while anxiously “looking after” its young. 2.1 The … cocks. 2.2] scored pencil Top of letter : ‘ …
To Alfred Newton 12 March [1874]
Summary
Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.
Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".
In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 12 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9354 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to George Warde Norman . See letter from Alfred Newton, 10 March 1874 and n. 6. Newton …
- … See letter from Alfred Newton, 10 March 1874 . In response to a letter from Newton, CD …
- … 2: 108 n. 9). See Correspondence vol. 19, letter to Alfred Newton, 30 May [1871] . …
- … See letter from Alfred Newton, 10 March 1874 and n. 5. In 1873, John Gould had published …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Alfred Newton, 10 March 1874 . …
To Alfred Newton 24 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.
Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4435 |
From Alfred Newton 7 April 1864
Summary
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4456 |
To Alfred Newton 23 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 23 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376A |
From Alfred Newton 30 October 1865
Summary
CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4927 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See letter from Alfred Newton, 27 October …
- … 1865 , and letter to Alfred Newton, 29 October [1865] . For more on Newton’s election to …
- … 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Alfred Newton, 2 April 1864 and n. 6). …
- … Newton had been an early supporter of CD’s views. Four days after the publication of the paper by CD and Alfred Russel Wallace on the tendency of species to form varieties (C. Darwin and Wallace 1858), he communicated his favourable impression in a letter …
To Alfred Newton 14 March 1874
Summary
Can give no definite information. Believes severe winters are by far the most important check on numbers of birds; the destruction of eggs is of subordinate importance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 14 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9359 |
From Alfred Newton 2 April 1864
Summary
Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4446 |
From Alfred Newton 15 March 1874
Summary
Thanks CD for his opinion on egging. Despite the intensity of the practice sufficient eggs always remain to carry on the breed.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9364 |
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 Alfred Newton 2 April [1879]
Summary
"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."
Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 2 Apr [1879] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11970 |
To Alfred Newton 30 May [1871]
Summary
Thanks AN for facts and corrections [for Descent].
The case of the gull must come out [Descent 2: 108 n. 9]. "Oh Lord, how difficult accuracy is!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 30 May [1871] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7781 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 24 January 1866]
Summary
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4979 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
From Alfred Newton 27 October 1865
Summary
Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4925 |
Matches: 3 hits
From Alfred Newton 13 March 1874
Summary
Wishes CD could publish Origin with footnotes.
Increases in bird populations: starlings are increasing, but AN cannot give reason; mistletoe-thrush increasing but not ousting song-thrush. Doubts trustworthiness of [George?] Edwards, CD’s authority in Origin on this matter [see Origin, 6th ed., p. 59].
AN opposed to bird protection legislation to prohibit egging. Argues egging does not decrease number of birds.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9358 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See letter to Alfred Newton, 12 March [1874] . In his letter to Newton of 12 March [ …
- … Edward 1856 , pp. 5201–2. See letter from Alfred Newton, 10 March 1874 and n. 4. Newton …
- … two letters from Edward, a Scottish shoemaker, dated 1872 and 1879, in the Alfred Newton …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] , and letter to John Murray, 31 March [1859] ). However, he never returned to the longer exposition of his theory that he had worked on from 1856 to 1858, and which contained footnotes (see Natural selection ). CD had mentioned the increase of starlings in Kent in his letter to Alfred Newton, …
To Alfred Newton 29 March [1864]
Summary
Eighty-two plants have germinated from earth on wounded partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 29 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4440 |
From Alfred Newton 21 January 1867
Summary
Suggests that, in some birds, plumage of males is less colourful than that of females; the reason is that the males perform the duties of incubation [see Descent 2: 204 n.].
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 22–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5374 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … snipe; now Rostratula ), see the letter to Alfred Newton, 19 January [1867] ; CD wrote …
- … and black-necked swan, see the letter to Alfred Newton, 19 January [1867] and n. 5. CD …
- … Alfred Newton C. Darwin, Esq. F.R.S. 1.1 If … respects— 2.4] crossed pencil 2.4 I had some reason … Lobipes 2.5] scored pencil ; ‘had some reason’ underl pencil 2.4 my own … that there 3.8] crossed ink 3.1 the female of … two sexes— 3.2] scored pencil 3.4 the male … female did— 3.6] scored pencil 3.8 was in … plumage of 3.14] crossed pencil 3.14 the female … others— 3.17] crossed ink 3.14 the male has … incubation 3.15] double scored pencil 4.1 Of … killed 4.2] double scored pencil 4.2 (snared … Cambridge, 4.6] crossed ink 4.6 & can … see it. 4.7] double scored pencil 5.1 It … to you, 7.2] crossed pencil End of letter : ‘ …
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