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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Thanks correspondent for gift of game and sends remembrances to his father [John Higgins]. Would like to visit Alford and Beesby, but fears he will have neither time nor strength.
Will send THF’s paper [on scarlet runners] to Annals and Magazine of Natural History with a note recommending publication [see 6384].
Suggests books on Lobelia.
Discusses papers by JC dealing with erosion. Comments on papers on the subject by J. B. Jukes, A. C. Ramsay, and William Whitaker. Formerly believed in power of the sea. Never fully realised the truth until reading JC’s papers.
Sends an addition to Lobelia paper; admires adaptations for fertilisation.
Sends a page to be sent on to Charles William Nunn.
Offers sympathy for the illness of THH’s son, Henry (Harry) Huxley.
Wishes he could have attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Norwich.
Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].
His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.
Discusses the top-knot turkey and the occasional appearance of the top-knot in a breed of cream-coloured turkeys.
Sends addition to T. H. Farrer’s [Lobelia] paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 2 (1868): 255–63].
Lost copy of Variation sent to B. D. Walsh has been traced as far as New York.
On their differences concerning sexual selection and protection.
Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.
Sends two papers; glad CD appreciates two he has already sent. Cannot send two others on glaciers (Philosophical Magazine, 1866 and 1867).
Informs THF that Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish his paper [see 6384].
Discusses GdeS’s studies on fossil plants;
response to Origin in France.
Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.
Thanks CWN for specimen. CD has sent it to Hooker for examination.
Sends an ear of wheat with two florets of oats growing out of it. Expects it will all turn out a humbug.
Berkeley’s address in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1868): 920, also Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7] praises CD tremendously.
Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.
Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].
The wheat and oat specimen has been examined "in congress" by Oliver, Bentham, Asa Gray, and JDH. No organic connection of any kind.
The election of 1868.
Remarkable deflection of the plummet observed east of Forres.