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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
23 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.120)
Summary:

Interested by HD’s information on aperea; CD had concluded that it was not the progenitor of domestic guinea-pigs.

Is unsure what HD means by "stock-dove"; properly this is Columba oenas and the domestic pigeon is C. livia.

Suggests that the Zoological Society might arrange for some specimens [unspecified] to be supplied from the Gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1865
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Summary:

Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].

Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].

Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 [Mar 1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 99: 19–20
Summary:

Requests a postponement of payment on a note for £100.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 99: 22–3
Summary:

Thanks CD for his consideration in meeting his convenience respecting the payment of the £100.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Mar 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 13–14
Summary:

Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.

Contributor:
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From:
Rudolph Heine
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 134
Summary:

Admires Origin, but CD does not consider hereditary law of use and disuse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 63
Summary:

Will return page on pigeons.

Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.

The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rudolph Heine
Date:
16 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992)
Summary:

Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Mar 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 264
Summary:

Thanks for Thomson’s and JDH’s views on Scott’s paper. Will send it back with advice and explanations.

Contributor:
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From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 359
Summary:

Introduces Cholmondely Pennell of the Admiralty, who wants to speak to CD about a literary matter.

Contributor:
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From:
George Stewardson Brady
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 276
Summary:

CD’s statement in Origin that clover is utterly dependent on humble-bee for fertilisation has been questioned by his friend’s evidence of visits by other insects. Asks CD’s opinion.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
21 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (8–9 April 2011)
Summary:

Has heard from Mr Pennell, and written to say too ill to see him. Would like to hear about skin between toes of otter hounds in comparison with other hounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 and 26 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 170: 50
Summary:

JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Apologises for failure to post letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 80
Summary:

Expresses pleasure at signs of CD’s recovery.

HWB’s work on the identification of species of the genus Colobthea; relates the large number of modifications that occur in the sexual organs of closely allied species. Does not doubt that this contributes greatly to multiplication of species in nature.

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From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 174
Summary:

Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.

Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
26 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Malmö Museer (MM 031992)
Summary:

Thanks for fact about the buffalo diving.

Asks whether the animal was a Bos or a Bubalus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307)
Summary:

Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].

Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.

Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.

Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.

Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.

Remarks on his health

and forthcoming work [Variation].

Contributor:
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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 65
Summary:

Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].

Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project