From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Summary:
A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:
Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 54
Summary:
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
Paget ed. 1901 , p. 408
Summary:
"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 287
Summary:
Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.
Reports six-toed pup.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 37
Summary:
Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 102
Summary:
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 288
Summary:
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B34–5
Summary:
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 105, 116
Summary:
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Jan] 1869
Source of text:
DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3
Summary:
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 103
Summary:
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 289
Summary:
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 51
Summary:
Red tape leaves no time for botany.
New ministry laudably attempting economies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 1–2
Summary:
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 165–6
Summary:
Expressions of emotions in Gold Coast tribes.
Differences between males and females in sexual characteristics.
Castrated rams lose horns and manes.
Female members of tribes have no difficulty getting the husbands they want.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 4–7
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B73–4
Summary:
Dedication of Malay Archipelago to CD.
Comments on scientific papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 January 1869
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B73-74
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 164
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 232-233]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 290; DAR 86: A81–2
Summary:
Forwards reply from [Peter Robertson] head forester for Marquis of Breadalbane on development of horns in Scottish deer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project