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DCP-LETT-4965

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B52
Summary:

Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4993

From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 36
Summary:

Is seeking election to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4996

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 57–8
Summary:

Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.

Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.

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DCP-LETT-4997

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 106: B31–2
Summary:

Looks forward to reading Variation.

Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?

"Travels" postponed.

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DCP-LETT-4998

From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 164: 37
Summary:

Thanks CD for supporting his application to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5000

From:
Lionel Smith Beale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 101
Summary:

Sends the numbers [of periodicals?] CD wished to see, and a list of other journals in which his papers have appeared.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5003

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 77
Summary:

Sends a diet for CD’s flatulence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5003F

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 14–17
Summary:

Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.

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DCP-LETT-5004A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 79–80
Summary:

Thanks CD for Journal of researches.

Insect genus Elater is an exception to the rule that all luminous organs give out a green light.

Gives some observations on climbing plants at Itajahy.

His study of orchids has convinced him of the value of CD’s book.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5005

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 150
Summary:

Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5008

From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 212
Summary:

Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5008A

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet collection G368 (bound in part of Moggridge 1865–8)
Summary:

Is sending Ophrys plants marked as CD requested as wild or under cultivation. Discusses arrangements for a scheme planned for 1867 and his method for marking his Ophrys specimens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5009

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B53–4
Summary:

Suggests two ways of financing what Susan will owe Catherine’s estate.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5010

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B40–1
Summary:

Division of Catherine’s estate.

Arrangements for EAD’s will.

Wishes CD would pay him another visit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5011

From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 213
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s suggestions. [From CD’s notes on CC’s previous letter, these were (1) means of distribution; (2) domestic animals; (3) gestures of savages.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5013

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 59, 62–4
Summary:

Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.

Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.

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DCP-LETT-5014

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 333
Summary:

Informs CD third edition of Origin is exhausted. Proposes a new edition. Has CD any changes? Since demand is slowing up, proposes printing only 1250 copies and deferring payment of CD’s share until sales have repaid manufacturing costs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5017

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 or 27] Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 65–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156: 1048)
Summary:

Lyell wants to see JDH’s last letter [the part on glacial periods]. Lyell full of concern about astronomical causes of heat and cold on the globe.

Encloses letter from John Scott.

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DCP-LETT-5018

From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 118
Summary:

Sends papers on graft-hybrids ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80, and "Über Mischlinge, durch Pfropfen entstanden", Sitzungsber. K. Phys.-oekon. Ges. Königsberg 6 (1865): 11–21].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5021

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 209
Summary:

Has received the larva of the batrachian. Outlines its affinities. Problems of batrachian systematics.

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