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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
2 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/63)
Summary:

Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.

CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 52
Summary:

Asks CD to join W. H. Flower and Huxley in signing a memorial in support of Dr Coues. He is a U.S. Army surgeon who has been working on an ornithological bibliography and needs support to complete his work in England.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
2 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/64)
Summary:

"I have signed the enclosed with pleasure."

Thanks AN for his kind expression about Frank [Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 90
Summary:

Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 48
Summary:

Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.

He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/58)
Summary:

Intends to see Adam Sedgwick.

Arranges to meet AN.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 170–1
Summary:

[Reference to Japanese nuthatch (see Descent, 2d ed., p. 410 n.) excised from letter.]

Sorry they will not have Frank Darwin with them any more.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
30 May [1871]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/59)
Summary:

Thanks AN for facts and corrections [for Descent].

The case of the gull must come out [Descent 2: 108 n. 9]. "Oh Lord, how difficult accuracy is!"

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/60)
Summary:

Asks AN to vote for CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, at the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 49
Summary:

Questions correctness of two statements in Origin: 1. That fulmar petrels are the most numerous birds in the world;

2. That the increase of one form of thrush in Scotland has been concomitant with the decline of another form.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
12 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61)
Summary:

Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.

Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".

In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 50
Summary:

Wishes CD could publish Origin with footnotes.

Increases in bird populations: starlings are increasing, but AN cannot give reason; mistletoe-thrush increasing but not ousting song-thrush. Doubts trustworthiness of [George?] Edwards, CD’s authority in Origin on this matter [see Origin, 6th ed., p. 59].

AN opposed to bird protection legislation to prohibit egging. Argues egging does not decrease number of birds.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
14 Mar 1874
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/62)
Summary:

Can give no definite information. Believes severe winters are by far the most important check on numbers of birds; the destruction of eggs is of subordinate importance.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 51
Summary:

Thanks CD for his opinion on egging. Despite the intensity of the practice sufficient eggs always remain to carry on the breed.

Contributor:
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