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DCP-LETT-6683

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Wilckens
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67r
Summary:

Thanks MW for two publications [see 6682].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6684

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

Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].

CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6685

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
Summary:

Pleased to come on 17th.

Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.

Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.

Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].

Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6686

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 175: 5
Summary:

Comments on their differences regarding evolution. Acknowledges that CD alone has produced an evolutionary theory that is scientific and all-embracing. Appreciates grandeur of CD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 254–6
Summary:

Congratulates WP on the success of his lectures.

Discusses the phrase "struggle for existence".

Sends a list of his papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 121–2
Summary:

Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.

Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.

Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
31 Mar 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 208–209)
Summary:

Williams and Norgate inform CD that they dispatched the small parcel to Leipzig on 23 February. CD fears it may not be worth the trouble to CC.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6690

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 241
Summary:

Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].

Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
1 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Spruce 1908 , 2: 385
Summary:

RS’s facts are remarkable. A year or two ago CD would not have believed ants could produce an inherited effect, but he has "lately come to believe rather more in inherited mutilations". However, CD is not satisfied that the sacs are inherited and urges RS to produce any other evidence he might have.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.364)
Summary:

Discusses wear and tear due to glaciation and significance of this evidence for dating the glacial period. Mentions views of James Croll and Archibald Geikie on the issue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6692F

From:
George M’Ilvaine Ramsey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 3
Summary:

Describes the work he is writing, Cosmology (Ramsay 1870).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
7 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/10)
Summary:

Drosophyllum plants recovering [from trip]. Describes experiments on them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6694

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 172: 47
Summary:

Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.

Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6696

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 46
Summary:

Insectivorous plants; Drosophyllum lusitanicum.

Descriptions of the local sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6697

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 242
Summary:

Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;

discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6698

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

Wants information on plumage of chickens

and table of sex ratios in greyhounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6699

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 224
Summary:

Will attempt to provide CD with the information requested as soon as he can.

Gives references to some recent papers and articles which might interest CD.

Is currently reviewing Wallace’s new book [Malay Archipelago].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6700

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B29–33
Summary:

Numerical proportion of males to females in greyhound puppies.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6701

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
18 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.374)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot come to London to be photographed [for GCW’s Eminent men of the day (1870)]. Invites GCW to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6702

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

Thanks for greyhound table; interested in transmission of colour in greyhounds and relationship to sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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