From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 262
Summary:
Sends abstract of his views on change of climate and a copy of a paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E3–8
Summary:
Glacial climates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Behrens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 122
Summary:
Requests autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 20
Summary:
Full background on the difficulties of the vicarage of Down.
Contributor:
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 21
Summary:
Describes a supposed cross between a cow and a red deer or doe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 5
Summary:
Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 69
Summary:
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Contributor:
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7
Summary:
Hybrid geese.
Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.
Pairing habits of crows.
Contributor:
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From:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A39
Summary:
On spurs in peacocks. [See Descent 1: 290 n.]
Contributor:
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 22
Summary:
Will try to get more information about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
The rumours about John Robinson [curate of Down] cause JBI concern. He will seek to get the facts – will try to protect Robinson against malicious rumours, but if he is immoral he must go forthwith.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 36
Summary:
Apologises; CD is correct: the object his foreman found is not organic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 23, 23a
Summary:
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
Contributor:
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From:
John Hellins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B76–7, B84
Summary:
Results of his breeding have not borne out his opinion that females are more numerous in Lepidoptera [see Descent 1: 313]. Still convinced he is right, suggests only way to settle question is by controlled breeding of large numbers of each species.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Barbot Beale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 102
Summary:
On why it is said Indian elephants do not breed in captivity; mating habits of male so violent as to require restraint.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 316
Summary:
Sends letter [from Haeckel?] opened by mistake.
August Schleicher a great loss.
Contributor:
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 24
Summary:
Has forwarded a veterinary surgeon’s description of the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer, see 6504]. A neighbour who has seen it is convinced it is genuine.
JBI can do no more about John Robinson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 169: 77
Summary:
The first half of vol. 2 of Variation is printed.
News of his marriage.
Sends portraits of Russian scientists.
Hopes CD will write his book on man and asks permission to translate it.
Moving to Germany for two or three years.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56
Summary:
T. H. Farrer’s paper is capital.
Contributor:
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From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 159
Summary:
Observations that confirm CD’s deduction that half-bred Persian cats are fruitful one with another. Relates case of Persian characters reappearing in the offspring of a common cat which was the descendant of a half-bred Persian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 124
Summary:
Bill for electrotypes from Brehm’s Thierleben [for use in Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project