From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 219
Summary:
Discusses peacocks and the rediscovery of the long-lost crested turkey.
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From:
Max Johann Sigismund Schultze
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 57
Summary:
CD has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bonn.
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 331
Summary:
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
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From:
Ludwig Molendo; Alexander Wilhelm Hannibal Franz (Alexander) Walther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 229
Summary:
Send their work [Die Laubmoose Oberfrankens (1868)].
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From:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 98–9
Summary:
Is writing to Australia to answer CD’s questions about resemblance of tail-feathers of young and mature female kingfishers. [See Descent 2: 188.]
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 224
Summary:
Coming on Saturday.
Baby and wife pretty well.
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From:
George Henry Lewes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 99: 31–2
Summary:
Gratified by CD’s approval of his articles, which the public has not much liked.
Clarifies the obscure sentence CD criticised – forms having a different genesis can be similar.
Calls CD’s attention to Kovalevsky’s memoir on Amphioxus [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 (1868) no.4]. K’s views are all in favour of CD’s and against GHL’s.
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 286
Summary:
Thanks for photograph.
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From:
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 220
Summary:
Sends work proving all elements formed of one substance: "Pantogen". Feels affinity with CD. His work will cause as great a stir. Has already been preached against. Asks CD for a note as a token of his sympathy.
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From:
Dyson Lacy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 49
Summary:
Answers to CD’s queries on expression in natives of Queensland, Australia.
[Forwarded by Edward Wilson to CD.]
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From:
Robert Brough Smyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 205–12
Summary:
Relates some observations on expression among Australian aboriginals and encloses answers to CD’s queries from other observers. [These include letters and observations from: J. A. Hagenauer, 28 May 1868; Archibald Grahame Lang, 17 June 1868; H. B. Lane, 24 June 1868; Templeton Bunnett, 25 June 1868; J. Bulmer (1868). (See introduction to Expression.)]
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 68
Summary:
Asks whether it would be convenient if he came to Down. JVC would be sorry to leave England without seeing and thanking CD.
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B63–4
Summary:
The problem of sterility, and its relation to natural selection.
George Bentham’s support of Darwinism.
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 August [1868]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B63-64
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 142
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 218-219]
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 22
Summary:
The material [from F. Müller] makes the translation more like a new edition.
German entomologists are becoming Darwinists.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 227–8
Summary:
Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.
Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".
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From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 41
Summary:
Sends a copy of his Osteologia avium.
Variation in pigs’ heads
and in Convolvulus.
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A34–5, DAR 160: 220
Summary:
Discusses the development of horns in antelopes. Remarks on the variation within and between the species of Cervus and on their relationship to each other.
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From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist)
Summary:
On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.
Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.
Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.
Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.
Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 229–32
Summary:
The newspapers’ pother about his mild theology.
Tyndall’s reference to JDH and CD as the two "modestest" men in science.
Huxley offended the clergy twice without cause or warrant.
William Hooker ill.
Astronomers do not like JDH’s reference to them.
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