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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.
Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.
Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.
Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.
"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."
Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.
Reports six-toed pup.
Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.
Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.
Asks JVC to ascertain the age at which merino rams develop horns, and whether they grow faster or more slowly than in other breeds of sheep in which both sexes have horns.
Asks how JVC’s translation [of Variation] has sold.
Thanks SN for the trouble he has taken for him [on Lapland reindeer horns].
Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.
Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?
Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.
Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].
Thanks GM for offer of observations. Would be interested to know when the horns of merino rams first appear,
and has long wished for living specimens of Drosophyllum.
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.
Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].
Red tape leaves no time for botany.
New ministry laudably attempting economies.