From:
Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 4
Summary:
One of his students is interested in translating Orchids into French.
Contributor:
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From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 162
Summary:
Her memorial [for civil list pension] with the signatures of CD, John Lubbock, and Charles Lyell has arrived. It is now going to W. E. Gladstone.
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From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 44
Summary:
Has been trying to get Drosophyllum lusitanicum for CD.
Intends to breed from two pointers born tailless.
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From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 177–8
Summary:
Answers CD’s letter of 15 Feb about voice of female and odour of stag red deer.
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 168
Summary:
Asks CD for references to animal breeders in order to test the hypothesis that mimicry arises through direct action of mental impressions received through the sense of sight.
Supports natural selection and Pangenesis.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 364
Summary:
There will be no objection to the French translation or difficulty about woodcuts of Orchids.
Has not yet received the information about Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 365
Summary:
Estimates cost of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin at £86 for 750 copies, less than £10 extra for 1000.
Contributor:
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From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 28
Summary:
CD’s queries on expression of aborigines were difficult to answer because he encounters mainly those touched by civilisation. Hopes CD did get answers.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 8
Summary:
Encloses a letter [from J. Croll?].
Has been unable to find a paper CD wanted.
Is leaving shortly for Paris.
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From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 54
Summary:
On hybridism between the fox and dog; asks whether CD knows of a reliable case of offspring from this cross.
Does CD want details on a white cat with blue eyes, but not deaf?
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 152–3
Summary:
Sexual differences in antelopes (Indian and African).
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From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 18a–f
Summary:
Sends a single specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum with description from F. de Avellar Brotero’s Flora Lusitanica [1804].
Discusses Portuguese ferns,
inherited mutilation,
and the earth’s geological history.
Evolution of behaviour and beauty by natural selection.
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From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 50
Summary:
Further observations on horns of fallow deer. Sends fawn’s head.
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From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 45
Summary:
Is forwarding potted specimens of Drosophyllum.
Will make inquiries about sheep.
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B77–8
Summary:
Weir’s paper on relation of protection to colour of caterpillars [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6; (1870): 337–9] confirms ARW’s hypothesis.
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From:
Henry Landor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 244
Summary:
Suggests that ground ice, in Canada and similar countries, is a mode of distribution of boulders and animal and vegetable life.
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 366
Summary:
Sends statement [missing] of cost and proceeds of publishing Facts and arguments for Darwin at 6s. Asks whether CD agrees to this price.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 317
Summary:
Nothing new in Lushington’s letter. Two paragraphs are offensive – that THH sought to stir up Scotch Presbyterian prejudices against Comte at Edinburgh and that he had not read Comte.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 10–11
Summary:
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 75
Summary:
Thanks for money, which will enable him to complete publication. Explains principles of his physiological theory.
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Correspondent
- Agassiz, Louis1
- Alglave, Émile1
- Bate, C. S.5
- Bates, H. W.1
- Beck, John1
- Becker, L. E.3
- Beddoe, John3
- Bennett, A. W.2
- Bentham, George4
- Blackwall, John2
- Blyth, Edward4
- Boardman, A. F.1
- Boccardo, Gerolamo1
- Boner, Charles2
- Bridgman, W. K.1
- Brusina, Spiridion1
- Buckler, William1
- Busk, George1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Carus, J. V.6
- Caton, J. D.1
- Claus, C. F.3
- Cobbold, T. S.1
- Cooke, R. F.7
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Croll, James3
- Cupples, George10
- D. Appleton & Co3
- Dareste, Camille2
- Darwin, C. R.282
- Darwin, E. A.4
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, G. H.5
- Darwin, W. E.4
- Dawkins, W. B.2
- Delpino, Federico3
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Donders, F. C.1
- E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung2
- Egerton, P. de M. G.-1
- Elliot, Walter2
- Engleheart, S. P.1
- Eyton, T. C.3
- Faivre, Ernest2
- Farrer, T. H.12
- Fleury, J. J.1
- Forbes, David1
- Galton, Francis2
- Glenie, S. O.1
- Gray, Asa4
- Gray, G. R.1
- Gray, J. L.1
- Günther, Albert2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Hancock, Albany1
- Hartsen, F. A. von1
- Haussoullier, C. P.1
- Hegt, J. N.1
- Hellins, John1
- Henslow, George4
- Hooker, J. D.15
- Huxley, T. H.5
- Innes, J. B.2
- John Fox & Sons1
- John Murray7
- Jones, A. H.1
- King, P. G.1
- Koch, Eduard2
- Kovalevsky, V. O.2
- Landor, Henry1
- Layton, Charles3
- Lubbock, John7
- Lyell, Charles1
- Malven, F. M.1
- Masters, M. T.3
- Maudsley, Henry1
- Maw, George4
- McNeill, Archibald2
- Merrell, S. A.1
- Meteyard, Eliza1
- Meyer, A. B.2
- Moggridge, J. T.3
- Moulinié, J. J.3
- Murray, John (b)5
- Müller, Fritz4
- Müller, Hermann2
- Newton, Alfred1
- Norman, A. M.1
- Ogle, William1
- Orange Judd & Co.1
- Orton, James2
- Preyer, William1
- Price, John1
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages1
- Ramsay, A. C.1
- Ramsey, G. M’I.1
- Reade, W. W.3
- Recht, Georg3
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Reuter, Adolf3
- Ruck, Lawrence1
- Rérolle, Louis3
- Schmidt, Max1
- Scott, John2
- Seidlitz, Karl von1
- Sinclair, J. L.1
- Smith, Frederick (a)4
- Spruce, Richard2
- St Clair, George1
- Stebbing, T. R. R.1
- Swaysland, George1
- Swinhoe, Robert1
- Tait, W. C.9
- Tegetmeier, W. B.3
- Thiel, Hugo1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tylor, E. B.1
- V. Masson et fils1
- Vogt, Carl1
- Voysey, Charles1
- Wallace, A. R.8
- Wallace, Alexander1
- Weir, H. W.2
- Weir, J. J.3
- Wilckens, Martin1
- Wilson, Edward1
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