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DCP-LETT-5405

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75
Summary:

Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]

discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,

abnormal habits shown by birds,

behaviour of cuckoos,

and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.

Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.

[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]

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DCP-LETT-5418

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 83: 34, 150–1, DAR 84.1: 26–7, 138
Summary:

Discusses sexual and seasonal differences in the plumage of birds and coats of mammals.

Remarks upon variations in the form of the canine tooth between the sexes in mammalian groups.

Plumage of allied species of plover.

Asks CD’s help with work on unimproved domestic animals.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5376

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 117, DAR 111: A91
Summary:

Position as Curator allows no time for experiment.

Describes plans for vast new layout of Calcutta Botanic Garden according to natural orders.

Himalayan and Scottish plants are doing well.

Hopes to experiment on temperate plants in tropics, to test CD’s views of migration during glacial periods.

Sends observations on acclimatisation of English cultivated plants.

Leersia CD sent are growing and fertile.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5433

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47
Summary:

Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5480

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 110: B111–12; DAR 81: 167
Summary:

Cites cases of difference in coloration between the sexes of some species of Crustacea, annelids, and spiders.

Discusses dimorphic plants and self-sterility.

Outlines some experiments involving the crossing of different species of orchids.

Encloses extract from Carl Claus, Die freilebenden Copepoden [1863].

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DCP-LETT-5512

From:
Carl Vogt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 180: 12; DAR 176: 90
Summary:

Asks whether his former pupil, J. J. Moulinié, might translate Variation into French for Reinwald. CV would provide a preface. Encloses letter from Moulinié to Reinwald.

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DCP-LETT-5596

From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 267 (fragile)
Summary:

Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].

Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.

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DCP-LETT-5616A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
26 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 79
Summary:

Thanks for information on Galloway cattle. [See 5614.]

Interested in WBD’s work on descent of the rhinoceros; is pleased to learn that he does not consider species to be immutable.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5630

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 350, 524
Summary:

Sends CD cheque for £250, two-thirds of the profits on the sale of 700 copies of Origin, 4th ed.

Hopes he has found a suitable indexer for Variation.

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DCP-LETT-5683

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191
Summary:

Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.

Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).

Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.

Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],

is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],

and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].

Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.

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DCP-LETT-5705

From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 12; DAR 177: 243
Summary:

JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].

Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7059

From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 46, DAR 189: 140
Summary:

The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7060

From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 47, DAR 195.1: 52
Summary:

Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].

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FL-0606

From:
Wedgwood?, S. E.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
19 January 1867
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0689

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[14 April 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 50
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0691

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[c. 15 April 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 52
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0692

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[c. 20 April 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 53
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0693

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[28 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 54
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0950

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
[illeg]
Date:
[5-8 September 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 20
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0951

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Wedgwood, H. E.
Date:
1 August 1867
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 21
Summary:

No summary available.

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