From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 181: 80
Summary:
Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 309
Summary:
Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B56
Summary:
Note on proportion of sexes born in sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 71
Summary:
Will use new English edition [5th, of Origin] in preparing for [4th] German edition. Bronn’s translation of Origin in the title as "Entstehung" is not so precise as "Ursprung" would be. The publisher does not object to changing the title, but JVC is doubtful, because the Origin is so well known in Germany as Entstehung. Asks CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 14–17
Summary:
Account of his Russian trip.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 87
Summary:
Ashamed that members of the Entomological Society have almost no information on sex ratio of bred insects in response to CD’s query of months ago. One exception, William Buckler, promises results. [See Descent 1: 313.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Buckler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 June 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B127
Summary:
List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Swaysland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 252
Summary:
Observations on birds entering the country in spring. Some have clods of earth on their feet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 57
Summary:
Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gerolamo Boccardo
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 234
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of his new book Sismopirologia [1869]. Is sending no other copy to England because his previous book was unacknowledged.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 110: B115; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 215/175)
Summary:
FM much gratified by the appearance of Für Darwin translation.
Discusses dimorphism in Rubiaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 44
Summary:
Carus will soon begin translating 5th ed. of Origin.
Sale of Variation is satisfying.
C. J. Dub will write popular work on CD’s theory.
Gustav Jäger has written on it [Die Darwin’sche Theorie und ihre Stellung zu Moral und Religion (1869)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 58–9
Summary:
On proportion of sexes in litters of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 370
Summary:
RC has sent a copy of the new [5th] edition of Origin.
Electrotypes [of Orchids] have been sent to Bologna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 229
Summary:
Reports having seen a very human-looking monkey on exhibit. Gives a phrenological analysis of its skull.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 265
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Origin [5th ed.].
Clarifies his point on north and south glacial periods. Supports CD’s view that temperate plants will move up mountains during the alternation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B81–2
Summary:
Asks whether sexual selection could produce the changing plumules or "battledore" scales on the wings of certain butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B81-82
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 185
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 244-245]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 18–21
Summary:
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1869
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 103: 18-21
Summary:
Reflects how Bentham might have been more cautious had he read ARW's volumes.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project