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DCP-LETT-4365

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B17
Summary:

Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4375F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian
Date:
[c. 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629)
Summary:

[No informatiion about content.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4375

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Summary:

JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4376

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Jan 1864
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31)
Summary:

Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4377

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 36
Summary:

Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].

Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4378

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 106: B8–11
Summary:

Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells

and Origin.

Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.

Work problems.

His butterfly collection.

Problems with book on Malay journey.

Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.

Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.

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DCP-LETT-4379

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B21–2
Summary:

Calls CD’s attention to an article by Paul Janet.

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DCP-LETT-4380

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 53
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion on the accuracy of stating that barley and wheat are different varieties of the same species.

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DCP-LETT-4382

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant , 19 December 1863, p. 8.
Summary:

Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].

Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
8 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Glad correspondent’s paper went well.

Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4383

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
9 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 93: B29–30
Summary:

CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.

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DCP-LETT-4389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 and 12 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 115: 216
Summary:

CD very ill.

Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.

CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.

Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.

[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]

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DCP-LETT-4384

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 44
Summary:

JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4385

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 99
Summary:

Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.

Sends promised Linum seeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4388

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 300
Summary:

Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4387

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 3
Summary:

Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4391

From:
Mary Hardcastle; Mary Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 255
Summary:

On his deathbed her husband [Francis] expressed admiration for CD.

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DCP-LETT-4392

From:
Robert Goodwin Mumbray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 318–318/1
Summary:

Has verified J. M. Bechstein’s contention that species of finches hybridise.

Quotes Thomas Bewick’s observations on hybrids between pheasants and common fowl. RGM had often noticed so-called "pheasant fowl", but thought it was a foreign bird.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4393

From:
Charles Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 17
Summary:

Collecting subscriptions for a school at Ford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4394

From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 278
Summary:

Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.

CD was right about Catasetum sexes.

Ficus experiments fail.

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