From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 36, 30
Summary:
Sends a letter he wrote in 1862 [see 3482].
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 352
Summary:
Sends Dallas’ specimen of indexing [for Variation].
Asks CD’s opinion of likelihood of a hybrid of ass and bull, reported in a MS of a journey to Asia Minor he is reading.
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 71
Summary:
Will send proto-Lamarckian pamphlet [1799] by Charles White, if CD wishes. It has a graduated scale of types from snipe to man.
Contributor:
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 261
Summary:
Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
Contributor:
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 2
Summary:
WSD is pleased that CD approves his index draft [for Variation]; notes his objection to long list of references under "Dogs" and will try to find a principle for shortening it. He has not indexed all authors’ names; is this practice satisfactory?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 37
Summary:
Remarks on Darwinism’s reception. The radical press shies away, out of ignorance, because CD may be made out to be a Tory. He has met a Darwinian Marchioness.
The mystery of sex is the origin of all religion.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 120
Summary:
Has sent CD’s queries on expression to some friends; encloses one set of replies [missing].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Elliott Kitchener
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 39
Summary:
Sends Swiss Aquilegia flowers in which insects have eaten away the spurs.
Suggests fetid smell of Stapelia attracts carrion flies.
Contributor:
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 3
Summary:
Thanks CD for his two notes [on indexing references to authors]; will increase the scope of his citations by including those quoted in footnotes in support of statements in the text.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 65
Summary:
Is not writing prospectus [of Variation] – merely sketch of contents and tenor of first volume for advertisement to booksellers.
Questions on details for the translation.
Publisher anxious to get volume out.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 80: B154–5
Summary:
Distribution of plants.
Removal of posterior molars a common dental practice in America [see Descent 1: 27].
Contributor:
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From:
Isabella Elinor Darling; Isabella Elinor Aylmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 135
Summary:
Writing article on Chillingham Park and its wild cattle; requests information on CD’s observations on their character and original breed. Was referred to CD by Lord and Lady Tankerville.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 159
Summary:
Is reading sheets of Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1867
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 31)
Summary:
Suggests his father lend him the money to pay WED’s succession duty and thereby secure a discount.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191
Summary:
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
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From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 249
Summary:
Sends references to books by Charles Lebrun.
Contributor:
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 4
Summary:
Has adopted CD’s plan of giving every author’s name in index [of Variation], but it causes delay.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 236
Summary:
Sends cheque for Down charities.
Contributor:
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From:
Samuel James Augustus Salter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 15
Summary:
Has read CD’s queries in the Field regarding the markings of dun-coloured horses. JS has for some years been working on and observing the occurrence of ass-like striped markings in horses and wonders whether CD received any response to his queries.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 212
Summary:
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
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