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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
WSD has been elected Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society after a sharp struggle. CD’s support was greatly in his favour.
Has finished Für Darwin. It has been a difficult job.
He and Mrs G pleased to receive CD’s letter indicating that he found their observations worthy of attention.
Hopes soon to be able to answer CD’s queries on first plumage of chickens of black-boned variety of fowl.
Delay in translating Für Darwin.
Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.
FM’s observations on stridulation.
Is doing a British Flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)], for students, more scientific and more complete than former editions.
His opinion of Bentham’s [British] Flora [1858].
On Croll’s extension of glaciers – a huge relief to get rid of simultaneous cooling of the whole globe.
Watson’s garbling of passage in JDH’s Flora Indica is unprincipled.
Asks whether the spurs in the young of Pavo muticus are developed earlier or later in life than in the young males of Pavo cristatus.
Thanks CD for advice to watch the action and not only the structure [of plants].
