From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 170: 71
Summary:
Down School funds.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 8–9
Summary:
Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?
Social news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 74
Summary:
Sends MS. Asks CD to recommend it to a scientific society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Maria Malven
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 35
Summary:
Librarian to the Board of Trade proposes a celebration of CD’s 60th birthday by the Vienna Free Press.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 181: 126
Summary:
Returns a book on beavers borrowed from CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 13 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 70
Summary:
Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 72
Summary:
Down School funds.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 7
Summary:
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
Contributor:
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From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 264
Summary:
Thanks for abstract of Moseley’s paper on motion of glaciers [see 6599]. Reading it convinced him that Tyndall’s received view is wrong. Has formed a new view, which he has sent to Philosophical Magazine [4th ser. 37 (1869): 201–6].
Contributor:
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From:
Hugo Thiel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 89
Summary:
Sends CD his pamphlet [Über Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften (1868)];
expresses his admiration for CD’s work.
Contributor:
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From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 179–81
Summary:
Habits of the fallow deer during the breeding season. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 803.]
Contributor:
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From:
Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 4
Summary:
One of his students is interested in translating Orchids into French.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 162
Summary:
Her memorial [for civil list pension] with the signatures of CD, John Lubbock, and Charles Lyell has arrived. It is now going to W. E. Gladstone.
Contributor:
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From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 44
Summary:
Has been trying to get Drosophyllum lusitanicum for CD.
Intends to breed from two pointers born tailless.
Contributor:
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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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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:
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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:
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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
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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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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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.33
- Farrer, T. H.12
- Tait, W. C.12
- Cupples, George10
- Lubbock, John9
- Wallace, A. R.9
- Cooke, R. F.8
- John Murray8
- Huxley, T. H.7
- Weir, J. J.7
- Carus, J. V.6
- Darwin, G. H.6
- Bate, C. S.5
- Darwin, W. E.5
- Murray, John (b)5
- Bentham, George4
- Blyth, Edward4
- Darwin, E. A.4
- Delpino, Federico4
- Gray, Asa4
- Henslow, George4
- Maw, George4
- Moggridge, J. T.4
- Müller, Fritz4
- Reuter, Adolf4
- Smith, Frederick (a)4
- Becker, L. E.3
- Beddoe, John3
- Caton, J. D.3
- Claus, C. F.3
- Crichton-Browne, James3
- Croll, James3
- D. Appleton & Co3
- Dareste, Camille3
- Eyton, T. C.3
- Günther, Albert3
- Layton, Charles3
- Masters, M. T.3
- Meyer, A. B.3
- Moulinié, J. J.3
- Preyer, William3
- Reade, W. W.3
- Recht, Georg3
- Rérolle, Louis3
- Tegetmeier, W. B.3
- Bennett, A. W.2
- Blackwall, John2
- Boner, Charles2
- Bridgman, W. K.2
- Dawkins, W. B.2
- E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung2
- Elliot, Walter2
- Faivre, Ernest2
- Galton, Francis2
- Gray, G. R.2
- Haeckel, Ernst2
- Innes, J. B.2
- Koch, Eduard2
- Kovalevsky, V. O.2
- McNeill, Archibald2
- Müller, Hermann2
- Ogle, William2
- Orton, James2
- Ramsay, A. C.2
- Schmidt, Max2
- Scott, John2
- Spruce, Richard2
- Thiel, Hugo2
- V. Masson et fils2
- Weir, H. W.2
- Wilckens, Martin2
- Agassiz, Louis1
- Alglave, Émile1
- Baily, W. H.1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Beck, John1
- Boardman, A. F.1
- Boccardo, Gerolamo1
- Brusina, Spiridion1
- Buckler, William1
- Busk, George1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Cobbold, T. S.1
- Darwin, Francis1
- Dohrn, Anton1
- Donders, F. C.1
- Dub, Julius1
- Egerton, P. de M. G.-1
- Engleheart, S. P.1
- Fleury, J. J.1
- Forbes, David1
- Glenie, S. O.1
- Gray, J. L.1
- Hancock, Albany1
- Hartsen, F. A. von1
- Haussoullier, C. P.1
- Hegt, J. N.1
- Hellins, John1
- John Fox & Sons1
- Jones, A. H.1
- King, P. G.1
- Landor, Henry1
- Lankester, E. R.1
- Lushington, Vernon1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Malven, F. M.1
- Maudsley, Henry1
- Merrell, S. A.1
- Meteyard, Eliza1
- Newton, Alfred1
- Norman, A. M.1
- Orange Judd & Co.1
- Price, John1
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages1
- Ramsey, G. M’I.1
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Ruck, Lawrence1
- Seidlitz, Karl von1
- Sinclair, J. L.1
- Smith, E. A.1
- St Clair, George1
- Stebbing, T. R. R.1
- Swaysland, George1
- Swinhoe, Robert1
- Thompson, T.1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tylor, E. B.1
- Vogt, Carl1
- Voysey, Charles1
- Wallace, Alexander1
- Wilson, Edward1
Document type
Repository
- Cambridge University Library
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College2
- Sotheby's (dealers)2
- The British Library2
- American Philosophical Society1
- English Heritage, Down House, Downe1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1