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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B73–4
Summary:
Dedication of Malay Archipelago to CD.
Comments on scientific papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 79
Summary:
Sends CD another piebald potato and a spray of holly, from Mr Fish, discussed in Gardeners’ Chronicle of 22 Jan [1869, p. 83].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A43–4
Summary:
On development of horns in merino sheep. Encloses reports from herdsmen he has approached.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Kencely Bridgman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 307
Summary:
Is assembling apparatus of lenses and reflector to observe flower from opening to first shedding of pollen, and to determine whether fertilisation is by night- or day-feeders.
Will also examine reasons for absence of nectar in Polygala linaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 42
Summary:
Is trying to determine conditions governing whether or not a salmon will rise for a fly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 175–6
Summary:
Answer to CD’s query as to whether horns on deer are for use or ornament. [See Descent 2: 252–3.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Friedrich Claus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 176
Summary:
Sends a paper on reproductive modes of Leptodera ["Organisation und Fortpflanzen von Leptodera", Schr. Ges. Beförd. Naturw. Marburg (1869)].
Criticises Ernst Haeckel’s work as too unripe and enthusiastic.
Asks CD for some specimens of cirripedes in pupal stage for a work in progress.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
