From:
Edward Jones
To:
Mary Anne Matthews; Mary Anne Ruck
Date:
28 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 182–3
Summary:
Horns of sheep [see Descent 1: 289 n. 26].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 76
Summary:
GR regarded as a dreamer in Bavaria. Laments local social and political conditions.
Describes his ideas of mechanics in nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Orange Judd & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 36
Summary:
Reports on the sales of Variation; discusses the difficulties of inserting additions and corrections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 137
Summary:
Sends paper on mechanisms of cross-fertilisation in flowers ["Note on Parnassia palustris", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 24–31].
Studying how fertilisation takes place without the aid of insects in winter varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A40
Summary:
The peacocks mentioned in his last letter as yet show no differences in development of spurs. [See Descent 1: 290 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 248
Summary:
Has experimented with some success in growing twigs with buds
and a grass plant from which a ptarmigan had extracted the core.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Gidley King
Date:
24 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2, Item 2, pp. 5–8)
Summary:
Thanks PGK for his aid in reporting the curious case of the parrot.
Will consult John Gould about rosella [Australian parakeet].
Recalls with pleasure their friendship on board the Beagle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A107–8
Summary:
Has found no difference between male and female rhesus monkeys at the Zoological Gardens in amount of facial hairiness. Observations on other monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
27 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/16)
Summary:
Thanks GM for specimens of Drosophyllum; by a strange coincidence CD has also received plants from a correspondent in Oporto [W. C. Tait].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
Date:
27 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Stadsarchief, Amsterdam (395: 614)
Summary:
Arranges to send a copy of Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 368
Summary:
Has sold 400 copies of Facts and arguments for Darwin. It is a poor time for bookselling.
Last Quarterly Review has best exposition of Darwinism he has met with [A. R. Wallace, "Geological climates, and origin of species", Q. Rev. 126 (1869): 359–94].
Proposes to print 2000 copies of a new [5th] edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Autogr. b. 4, fol. 119a)
Summary:
Has made a wonderful recovery [from riding accident].
Asks for information on blushing and screaming [for Expression].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 70
Summary:
A new edition [4th German] of Origin to be published by Schweizerbart. JVC asks CD to send any changes or additions.
Variation has sold two-thirds of the first printing [1868].
Hopes he may do translation of CD’s new work [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2)
Summary:
Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.
Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.
Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].
Slow progress on Descent.
His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 369
Summary:
Confirms a request by CD that Murray’s supply electrotypes of Orchids at most reasonable possible price.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Spiridion Brusina
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 354
Summary:
SB is founding a natural history society to study the flora and fauna of the southern Slavic countries.
Plans to print portraits of the four most distinguished naturalists and asks for a photograph of CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 80
Summary:
Sends paper on the "Origin of genera".
J. Decaisne, in last week’s Gardeners’ Chronicle, on the apple, cannot mean there are no intermediates between Malus and Pyrus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Anne Matthews; Mary Anne Ruck
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[29 Apr – 27 May 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 190, DAR 84.2: 211
Summary:
Sends message to CD about development of horns in sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
Date:
[29 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 65
Summary:
Asks MS whether he will examine adult mandrills and describe the sexual differences in colouring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lawrence Ruck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 29 Apr 1869?]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 134–5
Summary:
On the horns of castrated lambs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
