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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [Dec] 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 207
Summary:

Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.

Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.

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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 25)
Summary:

William asks what to do about a complication in settling Aunt Catherine’s estate.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
[before 10 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10)
Summary:

Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].

Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.

Haeckel has visited Down.

FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 120
Summary:

Asks CD to send W. R. Grove titles and place of publication of the Müller [Für Darwin (1864)] and Walsh (Walsh 1864–5) papers he referred to in his address [BAAS lecture at Nottingham, see 5135].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.322)
Summary:

Thanks CL for copy of his "grand book" [Principles of geology, 10th ed., vol. 1 (1867)]. Congratulates him on additions.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell
Date:
1 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.323)
Summary:

Mentions visit to E. A. Darwin.

Encloses note for Mr Corbet.

Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Hanbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 93
Summary:

Wishes to consult Fritz Müller on pharmacological matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 387)
Summary:

Thanks JBEB for Papaver seeds. Has long wished to see some of the closely allied subspecies and hopes to make some crossing experiments with them.

Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 99–102.
Summary:

Gives observations on orchid ovules ripening long after blooming.

Infertility with own pollen sometimes does and sometimes does not indicate dimorphism; gives observations on Ximenia, Eschscholtzia and Oncidium flexuosum.

Describes some striking seeds eaten by birds,

and some new dimorphic species.

Variation in Thillia.

Confirms CD’s suspicion that the lancet-fish [Amphioxus] lives in competition with invertebrates: it shares its habitat with a similar-looking Ophelia, which is quite unlike other annelids, just as the lancet-fish is unlike other fishes.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.

Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 114–17
Summary:

Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.

"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."

Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.

Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].

Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.

Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.

Balfour Stewart on sunspots.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 307
Summary:

Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.

Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
7 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (5)
Summary:

Asks to have author’s spare copies of F. Müller’s article on climbing plants [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344] sent to him for forwarding to FM.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Behrens
Date:
7 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Michael Silverman (dealer) (Catalogue 13, 1994)
Summary:

Sends his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 234
Summary:

Sending annual Down charities cheque.

Contributor:
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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 77
Summary:

WBT interested in ancestors of domestic guinea-fowl, ducks, and geese.

Egg colours in fowls.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 308, 308b
Summary:

A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?

A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.

Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.

On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.

Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
12 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Gives his opinion on the ancestry of domestic ducks, geese, and guinea-fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 118–19
Summary:

Plants arrived.

Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.

Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.

Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.

Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.

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