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DCP-LETT-6577

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 43
Summary:

Believes Portuguese habit of removing tails of pointers is responsible for birth of some tailless dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6578

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A51
Summary:

On development of horns in fawns of fallow deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
27 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360)
Summary:

Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
28 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 205–207)
Summary:

Thanks CC for two memoirs [see 6575. The other was possibly "Die Cypris-ähnliche Larve der Cirripedien", Schr. Ges. Beförd Naturw. Marburg (1869)].

Haeckel is too enthusiastic and too bold in drawing conclusions.

CD sees no reason to add to what he says on isolation, in new edition of Origin.

Lists specimens he has available for CC’s intended study of metamorphoses of Lepas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6583

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B75–6
Summary:

Argues that [general variability] of species, not single variations or sports, is basis for modification and adaptation to new conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6584

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 143–143/2
Summary:

DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
31 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.361)
Summary:

Returns book with thanks. "Joyfully accepts" idea of the warming of Southern Hemisphere during glacial period in the Northern. Lyell is unwilling.

Mentions H. N. Moseley’s study of descent of glaciers [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

CD greatly troubled by problem of age of the earth and calculations of Sir William Thomson. Asks about changes in the form of the globe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6586

From:
Charles Phipps Haussoullier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 362
Summary:

Requests authorisation to translate Journal of researches into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6608

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 8–9
Summary:

Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?

Social news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9224F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:

Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000561

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Henry Edward Armstrong
Date:
12 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/10/93, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000937

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
14 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/213, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000938

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
16 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/214, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001657

From:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To:
LC Alexander
Date:
26 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/21/102, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE331

From:
John Herschel / Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 306, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE332

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
27 Jan 1869?
Source of text:
HS 16.325, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE363

From:
Hooker
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
16 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSH 5 / 346, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE375

From:
J Gwyn Jeffreys
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
7 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSJ 1 / 24, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE440

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 145, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE483

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
25, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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