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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
, Leonard Darwin
Date:
[July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1868-7 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.452
Summary:
Has received his translation of Inferno safely, and it has been greatly admired by competent judges. Weather has been very bad. He can keep the extract from the Examiner.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 93–4, 97
Summary:
On the coloration of 26 species of Saharan birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[after July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v
Summary:
Questions from CD related to bird plumage and sexual differences, with answers by EB.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 217
Summary:
Has examined three races of the mouflon sheep and remarks on the extent of variation in them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 14
Summary:
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Reale Accademia dei Fisiocritici
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 July 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M197, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.See also A. Tassi to M, 1 August 1868
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.42
Summary:
Has just found that the bands of light from the comet are resolved by the spectroscope into bands that constitute a modified form of carbon. The spectrum of the comet was compared directly with a current of olefiant gas.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1–52/18)
Summary:
Thanks for two small works.
Will read essay on man [Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts] with much interest.
Generelle Morphologie reviewed by G. Bentham ["Anniversary Address", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1867–8): lviii–c].
Extremely sceptical of hare–rabbit hybrid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 209
Summary:
Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.
Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.
Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Pole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 56
Summary:
In Variation CD mentions colour-blindness in women. WP does not believe there are any proven cases.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
MM/19/47, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Smith, Elder & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 July 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.213
Summary:
Note accompanying shipping of a specially bound volume of JH's Cape Results. JH has noted on back of letter that volume will be returned as it arrived without plates or frontispiece.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Euphemia Henderson
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M41, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 331-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Frederick F. Geach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 23/2
Summary:
Answers to Expression questionnaire.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter. ‘How very curious the case of the bright-coloured birds which conceal themselves in holes!’
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Lindberg
Date:
5 July 1868
Source of text:
Sign. 630.1.1. 4, (1868-1881), Arkivet, Svenska Literatursällskapet i Finland, Universitetsbibliotek, Helsinki
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Addison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 279 (Letters)
Summary:
Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
6 July 1868
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks AdeC for his long letter full of interesting facts, which will be of great use if a new edition [of Variation] is demanded.
As for when CD will publish on variation in a state of nature: he has had the MS almost ready for several years but Variation fatigued him so much
that "I determined to amuse myself by publishing a short essay on the Descent of Man".
AdeC will have plenty of time to publish his views. Asks permission to quote AdeC on a case of inheritance of scalp-muscles [see Descent 1: 20].
Hooker has expressed a view, similar to AdeC’s, "that morals & politics would be very interesting if discussed like any branch of Natural History".
Agrees with AdeC on acclimatisation
and on graft-hybrids.
CD is repeating Hildebrand’s method in producing graft-hybrid potatoes.
As for Pangenesis, very few people approve of it though it has some enthusiastic friends and CD has much faith in its vitality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project