From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
7 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 146: 377
Summary:
Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.
CD’s riding accident.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 87
Summary:
Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 328
Summary:
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Swaysland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 252
Summary:
Observations on birds entering the country in spring. Some have clods of earth on their feet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 57
Summary:
Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gerolamo Boccardo
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 234
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his new book Sismopirologia [1869]. Is sending no other copy to England because his previous book was unacknowledged.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 110: B115; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 215/175)
Summary:
FM much gratified by the appearance of Für Darwin translation.
Discusses dimorphism in Rubiaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Aitchison
To:
George Cupples
Date:
16 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A54–5
Summary:
Statistics on proportion of sexes in lambs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 44
Summary:
Carus will soon begin translating 5th ed. of Origin.
Sale of Variation is satisfying.
C. J. Dub will write popular work on CD’s theory.
Gustav Jäger has written on it [Die Darwin’sche Theorie und ihre Stellung zu Moral und Religion (1869)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Russell
To:
George Cupples
Date:
18 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 56–7
Summary:
On the proportion of sexes in lambs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
19 June 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 26 June 1869, p. 861
Summary:
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 58–9
Summary:
On proportion of sexes in litters of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 June [1869]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 19–20)
Summary:
Sends new edition of the Origin. Has made some corrections.
Has been led into dreadful blunder on p. 75 by erroneous calculations of a mathematical friend.
Opposes change of Entstehung into Ursprung [in title] even if more correct. It would make readers think it is a new book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Elliot
To:
George Cupples
Date:
21 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A60–1
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in lambs, before castration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
22 June [1869]
Source of text:
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4 o 333a. No 77, 3)
Summary:
Pleased that Julius Dub will publish with ES [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s (1870)].
Would like Gustav Jäger’s brochure [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1869)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 134–6
Summary:
The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 370
Summary:
RC has sent a copy of the new [5th] edition of Origin.
Electrotypes [of Orchids] have been sent to Bologna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512)
Summary:
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 229
Summary:
Reports having seen a very human-looking monkey on exhibit. Gives a phrenological analysis of its skull.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B81–2
Summary:
Asks whether sexual selection could produce the changing plumules or "battledore" scales on the wings of certain butterflies.
Contributor:
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Author
- Aitchison, William3
- Bates, H. W.1
- Beccari, Odoardo1
- Bentham, George1
- Boardman, A. F.1
- Boccardo, Gerolamo1
- Brewster, David1
- Buckler, William1
- Carter, E. M. Bonham1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Cooke, R. F.1
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Croll, James1
- Cupples, George2
- Darwin, C. R.20
- Darwin, Emma1
- De Morgan, Augustus1
- E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung1
- Elliot, Robert3
- Evans, Frederick J. O.2
- Garbett, E. L.1
- Griffith, George1
- Guppy, Samuel2
- Haig, James1
- Herschel, John11
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Huggins, William2
- John Murray1
- Jones, Henry Bence1
- Kindt, Hermann1
- Koch, Eduard1
- Levi, Julie Laurence1
- Lyell, Charles2
- McCoy, Frederick1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von9
- Müller, Fritz1
- Petermann, August1
- Ponderer1
- Reade, W. W.1
- Russell, Thomas1
- Schmidt, Max1
- Sedgwick, Adam1
- Sedgwick, Sara1
- Swaysland, George1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Tyndall, John2
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel4
- Wedgwood, Godfrey1
- Weir, J. J.1
- Woolner, Thomas1
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