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DCP-LETT-5376

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 117, DAR 111: A91
Summary:

Position as Curator allows no time for experiment.

Describes plans for vast new layout of Calcutta Botanic Garden according to natural orders.

Himalayan and Scottish plants are doing well.

Hopes to experiment on temperate plants in tropics, to test CD’s views of migration during glacial periods.

Sends observations on acclimatisation of English cultivated plants.

Leersia CD sent are growing and fertile.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7059

From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 46, DAR 189: 140
Summary:

The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.

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DCP-LETT-7060

From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 47, DAR 195.1: 52
Summary:

Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].

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FL-0606

From:
Wedgwood?, S. E.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
19 January 1867
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0955

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Wedgwood, H. E.
Date:
1867
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 25
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1159

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1867]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 277
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1322

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 610
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1323

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 611
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1327

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[29 Jan 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 615
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1328

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[c. 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 616
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-13645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred James Woodhouse
Date:
25 Jan [1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 14 (EH 88206066)
Summary:

Two queries on teeth: 1. Is there evidence of inherited peculiarities in milk teeth?

2. Are male incisors longer than female?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13856

From:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72?]
Source of text:
DAR 195.4: 104
Summary:

Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4969

From:
John William Salter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 11
Summary:

Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.

Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.

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DCP-LETT-5343

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 134a–d
Summary:

On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5344A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1867
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 104–9; DAR 157a: 104
Summary:

Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.

Has been examining Catasetum.

Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.

Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5345

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 342
Summary:

William Clowes [printer for J. Murray] estimates that Variation will come to a first volume of 648 pages and a second volume of 624 pages – which is too much for volumes the same size as Origin. Murray proposes a larger size.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 3–4
Summary:

Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5354

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 343
Summary:

CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.

Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5355

From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A113–14
Summary:

Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.

Has now an extensive collection of insects.

Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.

Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.

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DCP-LETT-5357

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 288
Summary:

Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].

BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.

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