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From:
Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 129
Summary:

EF is seeking a French editor for Orchids [1870]. Introduces L. Rérolle, his student. [See 6667.]

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 318
Summary:

Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 118–20
Summary:

Envies JDH’s Russian trip.

Thanks for information on Aucuba. Urges him to experiment – case "has highest physiological importance, not to mention Pangenesis".

Has heard that Huxley has been attacking views of Sir W. Thomson.

Has received 12 plants of Drosophyllum lusitanicum from Oporto.

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From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 129
Summary:

LR undertakes translation of Orchids [1870]. Awaits CD’s new footnotes and intends to look at every flower CD mentions.

Contributor:
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From:
Carl Friedrich Claus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 178
Summary:

The cirripede material mentioned in CD’s letter of 10 Feb has not arrived. [Asks CD to inquire of Williams and Norgate, who forwarded it.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christoph Julius (Julius) Dub
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 62, 64
Summary:

CD will supply the sheets of the new edition of the Origin [5th ed. (1869)] if JD goes ahead with his work [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Arten der Organismen (1870)]. Has no objection to JD’s quoting him, but wonders whether the German publisher of Origin might not feel injured.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 254
Summary:

Asks about coat colour of elk,

the mane of American bison,

and about sexual preferences of female deer.

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From:
Samuel Owen Glenie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 56
Summary:

His observations of the chickens hatched from eggs of an isolated pair of pure-bred black-boned fowl. Nine were black-boned, two were like ordinary fowl.

Quotes a Mr Holdsworth on unusual expressions of Singhalese and Tamils in pointing and beckoning.

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From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 174: 67
Summary:

Has given a lecture series on Darwinism which was attended by 200–500 students.

Would like to compile a list of CD’s works.

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From:
Karl Johann (Karl) von Seidlitz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 132
Summary:

Mentions his publication [Die Bildungsgesetze der Vogeleier (1869)].

Comments on importance of heredity for evolution.

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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 291
Summary:

Will look for sex ratio statistics.

Will weigh pups.

Deerhound breeding;

wolves.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 112–15
Summary:

Comments on Fritz Müller’s book [Facts and arguments for Darwin].

Responds to CD’s corrections of his work [Malay Archipelago].

Plumage of birds of paradise.

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From:
Martin Wilckens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67v
Summary:

Sends two of his publications ["Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte der Thierzucht", Jahrb. Landwirtsch. (1869) and "Die Aufgaben der landwirtschaftlicher Biotechnik", Landwirtsch. Wochenbl. (1869)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Wilckens
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67r
Summary:

Thanks MW for two publications [see 6682].

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From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 175: 5
Summary:

Comments on their differences regarding evolution. Acknowledges that CD alone has produced an evolutionary theory that is scientific and all-embracing. Appreciates grandeur of CD’s work.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 121–2
Summary:

Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.

Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.

Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.

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From:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 248
Summary:

Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 264)
Summary:

Apologises for passing on what he agrees were offensive remarks in V. Lushington’s letter. Has told VL he had no right to make them. Asks THH to make allowance for red-hot disciples defending the master.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
12 and 16 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 541; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Summary:

Thanks for specimen of Drosophyllum.

Describes capacity of various plants to catch flies.

Cannot name fern specimen.

Laugher pigeon descended from Columba livia.

Discusses tailless dogs.

Believes astronomical phenomenon responsible for oscillation of level of earth’s crust.

Would WCT like copy of Orchids?

Expected plants [Drosophyllum] have arrived.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
Summary:

Pleased to come on 17th.

Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.

Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.

Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].

Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.

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