From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 93–4, 97
Summary:
On the coloration of 26 species of Saharan birds.
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 217
Summary:
Has examined three races of the mouflon sheep and remarks on the extent of variation in them.
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 14
Summary:
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 209
Summary:
Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.
Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.
Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.
Contributor:
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From:
William Pole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 56
Summary:
In Variation CD mentions colour-blindness in women. WP does not believe there are any proven cases.
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From:
Frederick F. Geach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 23/2
Summary:
Answers to Expression questionnaire.
Contributor:
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From:
John Addison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 279 (Letters)
Summary:
Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.
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From:
Julia Margaret Pattle; Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 8
Summary:
On the rental by the Darwins of a house at Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.
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From:
Julia Margaret Pattle; Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 9
Summary:
More on the rental by the Darwins of a house at Freshwater Bay.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 220–1
Summary:
Sketches out subjects he intends to speak on at Norwich [BAAS meeting]: museums, CD’s work in botany, Pangenesis, early history of mankind.
Asks about CD’s "book on man" [Descent].
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 129–32; DAR 161: 285
Summary:
Offers deerhound puppy.
Asks for photograph.
Encloses letter from George Cupples of notes, with excerpts from letters from Peter Robertson and John Wright, relating to difference in size between male and female deerhounds. Reports on weight statistics of ten [deerhound] puppies being observed.
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From:
William Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July [1868-70]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 308
Summary:
Asks CD what prompts dogs of all kinds to roll themselves in decayed animal matter; inherited habit or immediate gratification?
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 15
Summary:
Corrects himself on Robinia pseud-acacia: its spines are stipules, which explains hereditary fixity.
AdeC’s observations on movement of scalp muscles.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 49
Summary:
Comments on CD’s health.
Has received gold medal from Dutch Academy of Science for Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren [1869].
His Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts [1868] has been sharply attacked by the clergy.
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 218
Summary:
Reports on newly discovered Sclater’s pea-fowl from Cochin China.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 254
Summary:
Prof. Kühne would like to visit CD.
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From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 169: 43
Summary:
Sends completed translation of vol. 2 of Variation. Thanks CD for co-operation and asks to be informed when CD is finished with additions. Comments on sale of first volume and distribution of presentation copies of the second.
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From:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: B78–9
Summary:
LA clarifies his opposition to CD’s views, which does not blind him to the great value of CD’s original researches.
Answers CD’s questions regarding sexual coloration of Amazonian fishes and the protuberances on the head of male Geophagus and Cichla during the spawning season [see Descent, pp. 520, 529].
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From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 178: 124; DAR 165: 53
Summary:
GHKT is going to procure some local smoke-coloured fowls and investigate them for CD.
Encloses letter on expression queries from S. O. Glenie.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 225–6
Summary:
Asks for information on how many languages Origin has appeared in, how many English and American editions it has gone through, and its reception abroad. Wants to disprove statement that the theory is "fast passing away".
Baby ill, scarcely any hope of recovery.
Some botanical books have come for CD.
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