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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[June? 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 818
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 838
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 839
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[5 May 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 608
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Barbot Beale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 102
Summary:
On why it is said Indian elephants do not breed in captivity; mating habits of male so violent as to require restraint.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July [1868-70]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 308
Summary:
Asks CD what prompts dogs of all kinds to roll themselves in decayed animal matter; inherited habit or immediate gratification?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig (Ludwig) Büchner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct [1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 355
Summary:
Thanks CD for letter of 3 Oct [missing] about LB’s publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 102
Summary:
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 69
Summary:
Has seen CD’s "carte" offered for sale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Blenkiron, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 184
Summary:
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 116
Summary:
Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 116v
Summary:
Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B59
Summary:
C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 54
Summary:
Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 73
Summary:
Reversion of tamed animals to wild behaviour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Barwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 52a
Summary:
Crying and the action of the orbicularis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 210
Summary:
Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 81: 145
Summary:
Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Langton; Charles Langton
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 9 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A95
Summary:
Some observations by EL on moths visiting flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 172–3
Summary:
Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- , Leonard Darwin1
- Allen, Fanny1
- Bates, Frederick1
- Bell, Marion1
- Belt, Thomas1
- Blyth, Edward1
- Bowman, William1
- Bryceson Brothers & Co.1
- Caspary, Robert1
- Cassell, Petter, & Galpin1
- Caton, J. D.1
- Child, G. W.2
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Croll, James2
- Cupples, George1
- Dallas, W. S.2
- Darwin, C. R.462
- Darwin, Emma9
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, G. H.21
- Darwin, H. E.16
- Darwin, Horace3
- Darwin, W. E.5
- Doubleday, Henry1
- Gray, Asa1
- Günther, Albert1
- Hewitt, Edward1
- Hooker, J. D.28
- Horsman, S. J. O’H.1
- Inland Revenue1
- Innes, J. B.2
- Jenkins, H. M.1
- Lewes, G. H.4
- Lubbock, John1
- Müller, Hermann2
- Newton, Alfred1
- Ogle, William1
- Price, John1
- Rouse, R. C. M.1
- Saporta, Gaston de1
- Schultze, M. J. S.1
- Scott, John1
- Shaw, Marion1
- Smith, E. A.1
- South Eastern Railway1
- Staudinger, Otto2
- Stokes, G. G.3
- Tegetmeier, W. B.3
- Thwaites, G. H. K.2
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tyndall, John2
- Unidentified2
- Wagner, Moritz1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wedgwood, Elizabeth2
- Wedgwood, Emma6
- Weir, J. J.3
- Weismann, August1
- Wrigley, Alfred3
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- Cambridge University Library
- Natural History Museum and Archives3
- American Philosophical Society2
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden1
- Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library1
- Field Museum of Natural History1
- Geological Society of London1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond1
- Royal College of Physicians of London1
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1
- The Argyll Papers, Inveraray1
- The British Library1