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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 172: 39
Summary:

Sends tuber of Chilean wild potato, requested through Hooker and P. L. Sclater.

Plans to exhibit a bird’s foot with a large ball of clay attached. This phenomenon supports CD on seed dispersal.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
24 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53)
Summary:

Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.

Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 172: 40
Summary:

Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/54)
Summary:

Eighty-two plants have germinated from earth on wounded partridge’s foot.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 172: 41
Summary:

Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
6 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/55)
Summary:

CD has thrown away injured partridge’s foot.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 172: 42
Summary:

CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 43
Summary:

Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
29 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/56)
Summary:

Declines writing testimonial for AN for the Cambridge Professorship in Zoology. The post requires expertise in comparative anatomy and histology, whereas AN’s work is on habits and colours of birds.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 45
Summary:

CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 172: 46
Summary:

Thanks for new edition of Origin [4th ed.].

Has met CD’s son [George] at Trinity College.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
19 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 87
Summary:

Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.

Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 22–5
Summary:

Suggests that, in some birds, plumage of males is less colourful than that of females; the reason is that the males perform the duties of incubation [see Descent 2: 204 n.].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
23 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 88
Summary:

Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 28–9
Summary:

Male dotterels take care of young and are less brilliantly coloured than females.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
4 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 89
Summary:

Thanks for information about the dotterel.

CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 186: 50
Summary:

Thanks CD for present [of Variation].

Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
27 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/57)
Summary:

Thanks for corrections of errors [in Variation].

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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 172: 47
Summary:

Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.

Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 90
Summary:

Was gratified "beyond measure" by AN’s comments on his pigeon chapter [in Variation] in the [Zoological] Record [5 (1868): 94–6]. AN is the first man capable of forming a judgment who seems to have thought anything of this part.

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