From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
21 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 149
Summary:
Thanks HGB [for his Morphologische Studien (1858)].
Pleased at quickness of translation.
Contributor:
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From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1860
Source of text:
DAR 91: 82
Summary:
W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.
Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
30 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 284
Summary:
Comments on QdeB’s [Études sur les maladies actuelles du ver à soie (1860)].
Has failed to find French publisher for Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A65–6
Summary:
Reminds JSH to send "sketch & account of the wasp’s comb in transitional state from horizontal to vertical, & the country whence procured".
Asks for information on spread of Anacharis [Elodea].
Sedgwick [in criticism of Origin] was not very fair, but Murray says it is splendid for selling copies to "the unfortunate students".
Contributor:
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From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 177 (fragile)
Summary:
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.6: 5 (EH 88205922)
Summary:
Comments enthusiastically on WBC’s review ["The theory of development in nature", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 25 (1860): 367–404].
Contributor:
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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 166.1:180 [diagram here]
Summary:
Sketch and description of a [wasp’s] nest from Cuba. [Notes by CD on wasps’ nests and comb-building habits of hive-bees.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Marshall
Date:
9 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 336
Summary:
Asks for information about Anacharis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
10 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 150
Summary:
Has received copies of translation of Origin. Thanks HGB for undertaking it.
Comments on review by F. J. Pictet ["Sur l’origine de l’espèce, par Charles Darwin: analyse et critique",Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 7 (1860): 231–55].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 48
Summary:
Sends a letter concerning priority [of Patrick Matthew] for JDH to read and post.
Angered at Owen’s review.
Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture ends well.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
13 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 338
Summary:
Discusses crosses in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses peloric flowers.
Thanks for correction about furze.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Stewardson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1860
Source of text:
DAR 229: 3, 230: 4
Summary:
CD elected correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 49
Summary:
What a base dog Owen is for praising his own work in reviewing Origin [anonymously].
J. H. Balfour is narrow-minded.
CD cannot understand pollination of Goodenia.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 139–40
Summary:
CD’s observations on curved styles read well. JDH seeks morphological rationale of curvature in the position of nectaries.
He has avoided lecturing to Royal Family’s children at Buckingham Palace.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 50
Summary:
CD intrigued by the pollination mechanism of Leschenaultia formosa.
CD interested in Thomas Bell’s rumour that Owen avows his review.
Curved styles and their relation to pollination.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 67 (EH 88206050)
Summary:
Sends list of plants with asymmetry in nectar-secreting surfaces and pistils bent in that direction. Shows insect agency so important that structure has changed. Asks for contrary or confirming examples and that request be passed on to Daniel Oliver.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 51
Summary:
JDH has settled the Leschenaultia case, but it remains a difficulty to CD.
Goodenia, like bee orchid, seems a case of a structure with an evident function, which is not carried out. Is curvature of styles an incidental result of growth or a pollination adaptation?
Contributor:
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From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 297
Summary:
Cannot supply a case of atavism in canaries.
Will lend CD back issues of Cottage Gardener.
Cites case of bird (tumbler hen) laying egg in another’s nest.
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 153–153a
Summary:
Responds to CD’s comments on his review of the Origin. Regrets lack of space often causes him to do injustice to CD and to himself. Agrees to alter some of his statements
and offers some evidence for his opinions on plant hybridising.
Sends references to papers mentioning cave insects. Paussi are not blind, as CD thinks, though some other insects that live in ants’ nests are. Each country over the world has its peculiar species of Paussi, though they all live in ants’ nests. "Physical condition I say – Natural Selection you say".
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 162.2: 237
Summary:
Has read Origin with pleasure.
Has performed many experiments which confirm his opinion that primrose, oxlip, and cowslip are three distinct species.
Contributor:
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