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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.
Will finish translation of Für Darwin in a week.
Asks CD to use his influence to get him appointed Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society [London].
On local black-boned fowls,
CD’s new book [Variation], and Pangenesis.
Thanks CD for his promise of support and his flattering opinion of his qualifications for the position of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society.
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
Describes departure of expedition to China, Japan, and South America.
Copy of CD’s queries provided to expedition.
Invites CD to make suggestions for scientific work to be carried out.
Fears copy of AW’s publication [Über die Berechtigung der Darwin’schen Theorie (1868)] lost in mail. Asks for another.
Glad AW approves of his work
and objects to Nägeli’s law of perfection.
Thinks Moritz Wagner overrates necessity for emigration and isolation.
Describes Lappago aleina, a species of South African grass,
and reports his observations on locusts and their feeding habits.
His correspondents in Lapland will provide CD with the information on reindeer horns. Refers him to Linnaeus, Amoenitates academicae, vol. 4.
Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?
Congratulates CD on success at Cambridge [of George Darwin].
Would like CD to study the anomalous Cardamine pratensis.
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Relates some observations on the expression of elephants; they do not cry unless the eye is hurt or struck. "Perhaps Mr Darwin will like to know the above."
Information on proportion of sexes born in sheep.
Note identifying insects and remarking on stridulation.
Lists stridulating organs of various Coleoptera.
Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.
Enjoyed JJW’s visit.
Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.
Still at work on sexual selection in birds.