From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 81
Summary:
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Contributor:
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From:
William Blenkiron, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 184
Summary:
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
Contributor:
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200)
Summary:
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Contributor:
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From:
Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 177
Summary:
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Contributor:
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 186
Summary:
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 210
Summary:
Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 213
Summary:
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 122
Summary:
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 46
Summary:
Describes his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy of Variation. Comments on book.
Describes work of two protégés in Jena: Nicolas von Miklucho[-Maclay] and Anton Dohrn.
His cousin, Wilhelm Bleek, is sending an article about the origin of language.
Asks to keep book a few months longer but will return it if CD needs it [Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries, vol. 3, pt 1: Géographie botanique (1840)].
Describes research on Siphonophora.
Describes life in Jena. Mentions alpine accident during wedding trip.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 212
Summary:
Discusses the origin and characters of sheep breeds, particularly the merino.
Reports observations on reversion to wild type in canary mules
and lists some animals that show a unique development restricted to one side of their bodies.
Contributor:
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 11
Summary:
Forwards a letter from Secretary of Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Hopes CD will honour them by accepting.
Has heard nothing of Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 214
Summary:
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 354
Summary:
Advance sale of Variation has exhausted the 1500 copies printed. Murray sends note for £300 author’s payment. Wants to print 1250 more immediately.
Contributor:
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From:
William Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: 50
Summary:
Colour differences in annelids and entozoa.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 251
Summary:
Thanks for loan of Variation. "The Saturday Sadducees" do not believe there are a hundred people who understand the argument. EC fancies he does.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: B48
Summary:
Thanks for Variation.
Reports work on his travel book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 February 1868
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B48
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 103
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 193-194]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A51–4
Summary:
On the colours of the nudibranch Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 326.]
Contributor:
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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 227
Summary:
Thanks CD for copy of Variation.
Discusses Pangenesis and considers CD’s "gemmules" comparable to his own hypothetical "physiological units" ["On alleged ""spontaneous generation"", and on the hypothesis of physiological units", appendix in The principles of biology, vol. 1 (1864)].
Contributor:
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