From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
22 May [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/17)
Summary:
Thanks GM for specimens of Drosophyllum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
24 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 255
Summary:
Discusses secondary hoofs in antelope and deer.
Mentions tuft of hair on turkey hen.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
27 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 323
Summary:
Thanks for information about bird migration.
Comments on canary hybridisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
27 May 1869
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £263 13s. 8d.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
Date:
[29 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 65
Summary:
Asks MS whether he will examine adult mandrills and describe the sexual differences in colouring.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 June [1869]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a)
Summary:
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
1 June [1869]
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:
WCT should send specimens to Orpington Station.
Invites him to visit, but afraid conversation "would quite knock me up".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after June 1869]
Source of text:
Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (2013)
Summary:
Wishes Cupples had said something about health. Sends regards to Mrs Cupples.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Stephen Paul Engleheart
Date:
2 June [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.398)
Summary:
Asks about orbicular muscles in eyes of women suffering in labour.
Inquires about treatment for dyspeptic weakness involving "Volta-Electric Chain bands".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
2 June 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 222–223)
Summary:
Thanks AR for his offer to send his observation notes, but since CD will not pursue the subject of variation under domestication, and his German is poor, he urges him to publish them in some periodical.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
3 June [1869]
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL9.6)
Summary:
Declines invitation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
7 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 146: 377
Summary:
Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.
CD’s riding accident.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 328
Summary:
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
19 June 1869
Source of text:
Athenæum , 26 June 1869, p. 861
Summary:
Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 June [1869]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 19–20)
Summary:
Sends new edition of the Origin. Has made some corrections.
Has been led into dreadful blunder on p. 75 by erroneous calculations of a mathematical friend.
Opposes change of Entstehung into Ursprung [in title] even if more correct. It would make readers think it is a new book.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
22 June [1869]
Source of text:
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4 o 333a. No 77, 3)
Summary:
Pleased that Julius Dub will publish with ES [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s (1870)].
Would like Gustav Jäger’s brochure [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1869)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 134–6
Summary:
The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512)
Summary:
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 203–4)
Summary:
He told Giovanni Canestrini that stereotypes [for Variation] would cost £10.
Reminds RC of his suggestion that a copy [of Origin, 5th ed.] be sent to Scientific Opinion for review.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
24 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 408
Summary:
Asks AGM to observe fertilisation of Epipactis palustris. Has found that E. latifolia is fertilised by wasps.
Making revisions for French edition of Orchids.
Contributor:
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