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DCP-LETT-6521

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 21 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B65
Summary:

Discusses CD’s health and James Paget’s "verdict".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6522

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 167
Summary:

Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6535

From:
Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[after 14 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 180: 4
Summary:

Describes expression of her baby when crying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6539

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Nov 1869 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B66
Summary:

Has seen J. J. Sylvester again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
[before 21 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 262–5
Summary:

Replies to inquiries about his life and career.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6541

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 54
Summary:

Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.

Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6542

From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 37
Summary:

Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.

Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6543

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 287
Summary:

Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.

Reports six-toed pup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6547

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 102
Summary:

Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6548

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 288
Summary:

Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6549

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B34–5
Summary:

Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.

Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.

Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 94: 110–11
Summary:

Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6551

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 105, 116
Summary:

Praises Variation and Pangenesis.

Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6553

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 103
Summary:

In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6554

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 1–2
Summary:

Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6555

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 289
Summary:

Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6556

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 51
Summary:

Red tape leaves no time for botany.

New ministry laudably attempting economies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6557

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 112–13
Summary:

Finds JDH’s comments of utmost value. Answers some questions, and asks new ones. Transmission of variations. Relation of uniformity of structure to natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6558

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 165–6
Summary:

Expressions of emotions in Gold Coast tribes.

Differences between males and females in sexual characteristics.

Castrated rams lose horns and manes.

Female members of tribes have no difficulty getting the husbands they want.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6560

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 4–7
Summary:

Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.

Contributor:
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