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From:
Carter?, E. M. Bonham
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
8–12 September [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[26 Sept 1869?]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Would have liked to come to lunch, but has been talking so much to Hooker that he has no strength left.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Spencer Cobbold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 190
Summary:
Thanks CD for parasitic worms [see 6858] specimens. Supports "fact of succession".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
6 Sept 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks about Charles Bell’s statement concerning contraction of eye muscles. Asks whether such contraction is related to secretion of tears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 30–1
Summary:
Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.
Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".
F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Elliot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A74
Summary:
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
8 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30)
Summary:
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 38
Summary:
Sends a lower molar of fossil horse from Quito. Curious as to its species, especially in view of Owen’s findings in Mexico.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 201
Summary:
Wishes to borrow a paper by R. G. Haliburton on superstitions connected with sneezing [see 5635].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Blackwall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A80–1
Summary:
His observations on young of Theridion lineatum reveal no characteristics distinguishing one from another;
quotes N. Westring on stridulation in Theridion serratipes [see Descent 1: 339].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Jäger
Date:
9 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)
Summary:
Admires GJ’s book [Die Darwin’sche Theorie (1869)].
Asks about plumage of rejected male pheasant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 151–2
Summary:
F. C. Donders has been to lunch – a good "Darwinian"!
JDH’s speech of resignation [as BAAS President] at Exeter was charming [Rep. BAAS (1869)]. JDH should have been an ambassador.
Has received Indian census.
Is unusually well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 225
Summary:
Gives some observations and opinions on the appearance and behaviour of mandrills.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Beddoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A17–18
Summary:
Encloses last instalment of data on colour of women’s hair and conjugal selection. Fears results are inconclusive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 75
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in rats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 78
Summary:
Since March has been living in Heidelberg, where his wife is studying mathematics and physics.
The Russian translation of Variation has been printed in his absence; he will bring a copy to Down if he receives one from Russia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
14 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:
Thanks EB for his attempts to find out about the mandrills;
sorry to hear that he has been so badly treated by the manager of Land and Water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A5–6
Summary:
On stridulation of Coleoptera, Trox sabulosus, Mutilla. [See Descent 1: 380.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Date:
15 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Summary:
Thanks SHS for papers he has sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project