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DCP-LETT-6624

From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 177–8
Summary:

Answers CD’s letter of 15 Feb about voice of female and odour of stag red deer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6624F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Spring 2014, lot 188)
Summary:

Gives his opinion of Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, who is tutoring Horace Darwin in mathematics.

Has not heard that Horace has a chance of a minor scholarship.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6625

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
22 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 9–10)
Summary:

Thanks JJM for translating long paper [by Carrière, J. Agric. Pratique 48 (1869): 159–67]. Paper interesting especially for showing variation has been different under different conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6626

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 168
Summary:

Asks CD for references to animal breeders in order to test the hypothesis that mimicry arises through direct action of mental impressions received through the sense of sight.

Supports natural selection and Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6627

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 364
Summary:

There will be no objection to the French translation or difficulty about woodcuts of Orchids.

Has not yet received the information about Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
23 [Feb 1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 194–197)
Summary:

Agrees to printing 1000 copies of Fritz Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin though he fears it is foolish. Lists seven publications for review copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6629

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 365
Summary:

Estimates cost of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin at £86 for 750 copies, less than £10 extra for 1000.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
24 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.271)
Summary:

Thanks JC for his proofs of article on the movement of glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6631

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
24 Feb 1869
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses method for shipping Drosophyllum specimens.

Asks about inheritance in tailless dogs;

the growth of horns in merino sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6632

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A79–80
Summary:

References to works on probability;

statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Inquires about colour and development of plumage of poultry breeds. Is endeavouring to trace sexual differences throughout the animal kingdom.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6634

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo Thiel
Date:
25 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 148: 71
Summary:

Thanks for publication applying CD’s theory to moral and social questions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6635

From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 28
Summary:

CD’s queries on expression of aborigines were difficult to answer because he encounters mainly those touched by civilisation. Hopes CD did get answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6636

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 8
Summary:

Encloses a letter [from J. Croll?].

Has been unable to find a paper CD wanted.

Is leaving shortly for Paris.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6637

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 54
Summary:

On hybridism between the fox and dog; asks whether CD knows of a reliable case of offspring from this cross.

Does CD want details on a white cat with blue eyes, but not deaf?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6638

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 152–3
Summary:

Sexual differences in antelopes (Indian and African).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6639

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 18a–f
Summary:

Sends a single specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum with description from F. de Avellar Brotero’s Flora Lusitanica [1804].

Discusses Portuguese ferns,

inherited mutilation,

and the earth’s geological history.

Evolution of behaviour and beauty by natural selection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:
3 Mar 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.362)
Summary:

Thanks TRRS for copy of his lecture [Darwinism (1869)]. Praises his "admirable example of liberality".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6641

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 50
Summary:

Further observations on horns of fallow deer. Sends fawn’s head.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6642

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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