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DCP-LETT-6723

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–13] May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 181: 79
Summary:

South Down sheep: variability in colouring and patterning of lambs compared with constancy of adult coat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5994

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May] [1869]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 225]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6724

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B176–7
Summary:

Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6729

From:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 170–1
Summary:

Females have no preference for particular males in deer and elk. Observations on sexual behaviour and characteristics of elk, deer, bison, and other animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6727

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 111: A79–80
Summary:

Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6728

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
Lyell 1881, 2: 441; DAR 85: A100–1
Summary:

Recalls Cuvier’s reaction to Principles of geology.

Comments on Wallace’s article in the Quarterly Review [see 6684].

Not opposed to ARW’s idea that Supreme Will might direct variation.

Quotes passage in letter from ARW arguing for causes other than selection in determining human abilities.

Discusses excavation of lakes by glaciers.

J. P. Lesley does not believe ice-sheets involved in eroding Appalachians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5937

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
Lyell, K. M. (Ed.). (1881). In: Life Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart . Vol. 2. London: John Murray. [pp. 441-444]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6519F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 8 May 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 12
Summary:

Reports what he must pay for university courses. Forgets what CD wants to know about vermiform appendage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6734

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 162
Summary:

The Linnean Society Council wants CD to review two papers, with reference to their value for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6732

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 319
Summary:

H. M. S. Nassau, surveying Magellan Straits, has found fossils at Gallegos River. They have been sent to THH by R. O. Cunningham [naturalist of H. M. S. Nassau]. Skull of entirely new ungulate mammal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6733

From:
Harrison William Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 181: 71
Summary:

Daisies.

A tame rabbit with a litter of 18.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6736

From:
Asa Gray; Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 and 9 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 167—8
Summary:

Sorry to hear of CD’s accident.

Recounts his travels.

Jane Gray writes a description of the Arabs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6739

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 52
Summary:

Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6744

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 163
Summary:

Will have Fritz Müller’s letter ["On the modification of the stamens in a species of Begonia", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 472–4] read at next Linnean Society meeting [read 3 June 1869].

Has given the seeds to Daniel Oliver.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6745

From:
John Hellins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 138
Summary:

Notes sex ratios in Lepidoptera he is breeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6741

From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 130
Summary:

French translation of Orchids will be published by Reinwald. Asks for CD’s new footnotes to be sent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6742

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 19–20, DAR 178: 47
Summary:

Development of the horns of local sheep.

Results of breeding tailless pointers: of six puppies, three had stumps like parents.

Observations on Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6747

From:
John Beck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 104
Summary:

Sends his MS "The real presence" [on transubstantiation] for CD’s comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6748

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 105
Summary:

He is managing to salvage a few Andalusian Drosophyllum plants from the voyage and will send some to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6752

From:
Henry Maudsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 308, 323/6–9; DAR 171: 93
Summary:

He forwarded CD’s queries on the insane to James Crichton-Browne who has now answered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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