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DCP-LETT-2936

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12)
Summary:

JW’s case of black hogs shows marvellous relation of colour and constitution.

Could JW get information about eyes of cave rat?

Was JW struck by length of hind legs of male cattle?

CD has long shared JW’s doubts that mutilations were ever inherited but Brown-Séquard’s case seems to settle question.

Is not case of cats with blue eyes being deaf very odd?

Spinal stripes on horse too common to explain in way informant supposes.

Believes Owen "goes a long way with us", though he attacked CD in Edinburgh Review.

"No one other person understands me so thoroughly as Asa Gray."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12)
Summary:

"You cannot tell how much your paper on Gestation has interested me" ["On some unusual modes of gestation in batrachians and fishes", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 27 (1859): 5–13].

Robert McDonnell has made curious discoveries on electrical organs of rays.

Is giving JW’s hog case in corrected ed. [3d] of Origin.

Would like account of tip of tail of young rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12)
Summary:

Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.

Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.

Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?

Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4912

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
8 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12)
Summary:

Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.

Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?

Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4994

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
2 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Jeffries Wyman Jr (private collection)
Summary:

Obliged for JW’s information on variability of size of bees’ cells. Hexagonal cells not always work of several insects. W. H. Miller found great variability in thickness of cell walls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2901

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 15] Sept 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 165–6
Summary:

Cases of monstrosities becoming transmissible.

Comments on passages in Origin on the blindness of the tucu-tucu (Ctenomys) and Mammoth Cave rats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3045

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:

Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4897

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 190
Summary:

Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4974

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 181: 191
Summary:

Has made observations on bees’ cells. Their dimensions are not constant, nor do single bees make single cells; each one is a result of co-operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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