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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:
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:
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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.

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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.

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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:
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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.

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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.

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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 9
Summary:

University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.

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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 81
Summary:

He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.

He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.

Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].

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From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 175
Summary:

It is Bos arni which dives for herbage and in so doing it also swallows many freshwater shrimps.

Contributor:
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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 62, 66
Summary:

WBT’s eye is getting on very well.

Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.

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