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DCP-LETT-6503

From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 36
Summary:

Apologises; CD is correct: the object his foreman found is not organic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6504

From:
Lachlan McLean
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 16
Summary:

Describes an animal that is said to be a hybrid between a cow and a deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6505

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
16 Dec 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6506

From:
John Hellins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B76–7, B84
Summary:

Results of his breeding have not borne out his opinion that females are more numerous in Lepidoptera [see Descent 1: 313]. Still convinced he is right, suggests only way to settle question is by controlled breeding of large numbers of each species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6507

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 24
Summary:

Has forwarded a veterinary surgeon’s description of the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer, see 6504]. A neighbour who has seen it is convinced it is genuine.

JBI can do no more about John Robinson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6507F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
Date:
18 Dec 1868
Source of text:
Stadsarchief Amsterdam (395: 614)
Summary:

Thanks for information about the spurs in the young of Pavo muticus and Pavo cristatus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6509

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Dec 1868
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/21)
Summary:

Concerning death of August Schleicher.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6510

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 169: 77
Summary:

The first half of vol. 2 of Variation is printed.

News of his marriage.

Sends portraits of Russian scientists.

Hopes CD will write his book on man and asks permission to translate it.

Moving to Germany for two or three years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6511

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56
Summary:

T. H. Farrer’s paper is capital.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 105–7
Summary:

Is working on new edition of Origin [5th (1869)].

Asks JDH’s assistance on a problem posed by Nägeli on morphological differences that are of no utility to plants and hence could not be selected. CD wants to show that these differences do not support the idea of progressive development as Nägeli suggests.

Owen pitches into CD and Lyell in third volume of Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358)
Summary:

Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.

Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 108—9
Summary:

JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].

Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6516

From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 159
Summary:

Observations that confirm CD’s deduction that half-bred Persian cats are fruitful one with another. Relates case of Persian characters reappearing in the offspring of a common cat which was the descendant of a half-bred Persian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6517

From:
Sven Nilsson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A41–2
Summary:

On the development of horns in Lapland reindeer. [See Descent 1: 288.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6518

From:
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 124
Summary:

Bill for electrotypes from Brehm’s Thierleben [for use in Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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