From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
South Eastern Railway
Date:
[c. Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 49
Summary:
Wishes correspondent to investigate immediately the loss of two boxes in transit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 89–90
Summary:
Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.
Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.
Huxley’s want of judgment.
JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.
Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Surprised and pleased JBI liked his "big book" [Variation].
Luckily, naturalists do not seem to think he has committed suicide with the work.
CD wants to turn over the school accounts to John Robinson [curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news.
Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.354)
Summary:
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Would like information on the first plumage of poultry.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/46)
Summary:
Appreciates MJB’s address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7]. Has had great respect for MJB’s knowledge since his undergraduate days at Cambridge.
Agrees that Pangenesis gemmules probably do not develop into free cells, but penetrate other cells in a manner analogous to fertilisation, and modify their development.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8–10 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 91–2
Summary:
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273)
Summary:
Asks about the differences in colour of plumage of adult male, female, and young birds. Suggests pile game as subject.
Asks about relative proportion of sexes in ducks and fowls.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:
Thanks for answers to questions, but declines loan of specimens.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[13–21 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:
Sends a page to be sent on to Charles William Nunn.
Offers sympathy for the illness of THH’s son, Henry (Harry) Huxley.
Wishes he could have attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Norwich.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
15 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4)
Summary:
Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 September [1868]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 149-150
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 222-223]
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
Date:
16 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois History and Lincoln Collections (Hinrichs Papers, IHLC MS 712, Box 5)
Summary:
Acknowledges letter of 31 August and various works. Regrets he is unable to help GH with his works but will seek to interest Tyndall. Discourages GH on prospect of publication of his new book in England.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.190–191)
Summary:
B. D. Walsh has not received his copy of Variation. Several other foreign correspondents have similar complaints.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50)
Summary:
CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Syer Bristowe
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:
Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 253
Summary:
Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Higgins
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/17/8)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for gift of game and sends remembrances to his father [John Higgins]. Would like to visit Alford and Beesby, but fears he will have neither time nor strength.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
19 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 352
Summary:
Discusses papers by JC dealing with erosion. Comments on papers on the subject by J. B. Jukes, A. C. Ramsay, and William Whitaker. Formerly believed in power of the sea. Never fully realised the truth until reading JC’s papers.
Contributor:
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