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DCP-LETT-6605

From:
Carl Friedrich Claus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 177
Summary:

Pleased by CD’s good opinion and offer to provide material. Discusses work he would do on cirripedes.

Moritz Wagner’s views on migration of species;

his doubts about Fritz Müller’s views on developmental stages of Crustacea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6604

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 6
Summary:

Has inquired about magnetic storms. Any effect that could be produced by the sun’s energy in retarding the cooling of the earth would be utterly insignificant.

Tells of his visit to Eton.

Is uncertain about next steps to take for a legal career.

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DCP-LETT-6607

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 170: 71
Summary:

Down School funds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6609

From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 74
Summary:

Sends MS. Asks CD to recommend it to a scientific society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6610

From:
Ferdinand Maria Malven
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 35
Summary:

Librarian to the Board of Trade proposes a celebration of CD’s 60th birthday by the Vienna Free Press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6611

From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 181: 126
Summary:

Returns a book on beavers borrowed from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6613

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 72
Summary:

Down School funds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6614

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 7
Summary:

Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].

Cambridge news.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6616

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 264
Summary:

Thanks for abstract of Moseley’s paper on motion of glaciers [see 6599]. Reading it convinced him that Tyndall’s received view is wrong. Has formed a new view, which he has sent to Philosophical Magazine [4th ser. 37 (1869): 201–6].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6615

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 272; DAR 193: 59–62
Summary:

Sends abstract of an article by Carrière [J. Agric. Pratique 1 (1869): 159–67] on the improvement of wild radish by selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6620

From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 179–81
Summary:

Habits of the fallow deer during the breeding season. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 803.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6621

From:
Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 4
Summary:

One of his students is interested in translating Orchids into French.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6619

From:
Hugo Thiel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 89
Summary:

Sends CD his pamphlet [Über Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften (1868)];

expresses his admiration for CD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6622

From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 162
Summary:

Her memorial [for civil list pension] with the signatures of CD, John Lubbock, and Charles Lyell has arrived. It is now going to W. E. Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6623

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 44
Summary:

Has been trying to get Drosophyllum lusitanicum for CD.

Intends to breed from two pointers born tailless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6624

From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 177–8
Summary:

Answers CD’s letter of 15 Feb about voice of female and odour of stag red deer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6627

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 364
Summary:

There will be no objection to the French translation or difficulty about woodcuts of Orchids.

Has not yet received the information about Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6626

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 168
Summary:

Asks CD for references to animal breeders in order to test the hypothesis that mimicry arises through direct action of mental impressions received through the sense of sight.

Supports natural selection and Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6522

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 167
Summary:

Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6629

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 365
Summary:

Estimates cost of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin at £86 for 750 copies, less than £10 extra for 1000.

Contributor:
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