From:
Thomas Spencer Cobbold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 190
Summary:
Thanks CD for parasitic worms [see 6858] specimens. Supports "fact of succession".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Walter Elliot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A74
Summary:
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 30–1
Summary:
Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.
Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".
F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.
Contributor:
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From:
John Blackwall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A80–1
Summary:
His observations on young of Theridion lineatum reveal no characteristics distinguishing one from another;
quotes N. Westring on stridulation in Theridion serratipes [see Descent 1: 339].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 38
Summary:
Sends a lower molar of fossil horse from Quito. Curious as to its species, especially in view of Owen’s findings in Mexico.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 201
Summary:
Wishes to borrow a paper by R. G. Haliburton on superstitions connected with sneezing [see 5635].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Beddoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A17–18
Summary:
Encloses last instalment of data on colour of women’s hair and conjugal selection. Fears results are inconclusive.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 225
Summary:
Gives some observations and opinions on the appearance and behaviour of mandrills.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 75
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in rats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 78
Summary:
Since March has been living in Heidelberg, where his wife is studying mathematics and physics.
The Russian translation of Variation has been printed in his absence; he will bring a copy to Down if he receives one from Russia.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A5–6
Summary:
On stridulation of Coleoptera, Trox sabulosus, Mutilla. [See Descent 1: 380.]
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 212
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Although Thomas Meehan’s paper ["Variations in Epigaea repens", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868): 153–6] shows great variability in this genus, JTM sees a need to qualify the generalisation that there is as much variation in the wild as under domestication. He knows no evidence for a constant proportion between variability in the wild and under cultivation.
Observations on correlation between leaf size and exposure to sun and shade.
Has evidence for two varieties of Ophrys apifera in England, which live in mutually exclusive colonies.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 32–3
Summary:
Will come to Down on 25 Sept.
Thanks CD for supplementaries ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56] which he will quote in the British flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)].
F. A. W. Miquel could not come.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 55
Summary:
Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 213
Summary:
Leaflet variation at the tip of Lathyrus stems.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 371
Summary:
JM is about to start a new monthly literary review [the Academy]. Would like to publish in first number a short notice of the new work upon which CD is engaged [Descent].
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 81
Summary:
Robert Fenn exhibited potatoes at the Horticultural Society which showed general failure of graft-hybrids and provided an example of reversion to a wild Peruvian tuber resulting from cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 294
Summary:
Thanks CD for the English edition of his brother’s book [Fritz Müller, Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)]
and for CD’s memoir on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 243
Summary:
Mr Ford is attending to CD’s drawings [for Descent].
Death of AG’s wife.
Contributor:
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