From:
Stephen Paul Engleheart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1869 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 19
Summary:
Blushing begins as early as the fifth year.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A3
Summary:
Both sexes of Mononychus pseudacori and other Coleoptera stridulate.
Contributor:
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From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 144
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Nectar-sucking birds fertilise tropical flowers.
Writing a "Dualistic apologia for Pangenesis" [see translation in Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8].
Homology of the orchid rostellum.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 56
Summary:
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.
Contributor:
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From:
John Fox & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 61v
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s cheque in payment of his account.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 57
Summary:
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
Contributor:
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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 117, 119
Summary:
Sends abstract of her BAAS paper on the role of a parasitic fungus in producing bisexual flowers in Lychnis.
Contributor:
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 167: 25
Summary:
R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.
JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 332
Summary:
Has a book of photographs of Japanese that CD might be interested in for his work on expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 58
Summary:
Sends notes on observations of Passiflora and Tacsonia; Hooker thinks they would be worth reading at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 10
Summary:
Asks for some money for his fees.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B178, Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12)
Summary:
Describes experiments to test the fertility of Abutilon, which appears self-sterile,
and briefly mentions dichogamy in Eschscholzia.
Contributor:
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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 124
Summary:
Reports on his findings in Denbighshire caves ["The Denbighshire caves", Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc. 9 (1869–70): 31–7].
Sends his paper ["On the prae-historic Mammalia in Great Britain", Intellect. Obs. (1868): 403–10].
Has changed his view on the descent of British cattle from the wild aurochs. No evidence that aurochs survived into historic times in Britain.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 72
Summary:
Koch [of Schweizerbart’s, publisher of German translations of CD’s works] has inquired when CD’s new book on man will be out. JVC assures CD that the book should be translated into German, and offers his services.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 171
Summary:
Has sent CD some Drosera specimens.
Returns to U. S. on 9 November.
Contributor:
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 167: 26
Summary:
Sends Guardian containing Hutton’s paper on CD.
Discusses Henry Powell, the new vicar of Down, and plans for the parsonage.
Contributor:
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From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 273
Summary:
Wishes to translate CD’s forthcoming work on man into French.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B86–7
Summary:
Looks forward to Descent, though he expects to find more to differ with than in any other of CD’s books.
Problems of usefulness of incipient organs and of the independent origin of similar complex organs are real difficulties.
Plans a little book on "Distribution of animals".
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 October 1869
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B86-87
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 188
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 246-247]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: A35
Summary:
Has learned CD will soon publish a new work, in three parts: I. "Descent of man", II. "On sexual selection", and III. "Expression of the emotions"; would like to translate one part for inclusion in Revue des Cours [Littéraires et] Scientifiques, and at the same time translate and publish the complete work for France.
Contributor:
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