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DCP-LETT-6571

From:
William Kencely Bridgman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 307
Summary:

Is assembling apparatus of lenses and reflector to observe flower from opening to first shedding of pollen, and to determine whether fertilisation is by night- or day-feeders.

Will also examine reasons for absence of nectar in Polygala linaria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6572

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 42
Summary:

Is trying to determine conditions governing whether or not a salmon will rise for a fly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6574

From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 175–6
Summary:

Answer to CD’s query as to whether horns on deer are for use or ornament. [See Descent 2: 252–3.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6575

From:
Carl Friedrich Claus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 176
Summary:

Sends a paper on reproductive modes of Leptodera ["Organisation und Fortpflanzen von Leptodera", Schr. Ges. Beförd. Naturw. Marburg (1869)].

Criticises Ernst Haeckel’s work as too unripe and enthusiastic.

Asks CD for some specimens of cirripedes in pupal stage for a work in progress.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6577

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 43
Summary:

Believes Portuguese habit of removing tails of pointers is responsible for birth of some tailless dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6578

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A51
Summary:

On development of horns in fawns of fallow deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6583

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B75–6
Summary:

Argues that [general variability] of species, not single variations or sports, is basis for modification and adaptation to new conditions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6584

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 143–143/2
Summary:

DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6586

From:
Charles Phipps Haussoullier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 362
Summary:

Requests authorisation to translate Journal of researches into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6608

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 8–9
Summary:

Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?

Social news.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9224F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:

Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1912

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 January 1869
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B73-74
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 164
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 232-233]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1914

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 January 1869
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B75-76
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 167
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 234]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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