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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand Krauss
Date:
May 1869
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
the Deutscher Krankenverein
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
May 1869
Source of text:
Melbourne German Medical Benefit Society minute book no. 5, 1895-1905, La Trobe Manuscript Collection MS 13467, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–13] May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 181: 79
Summary:
South Down sheep: variability in colouring and patterning of lambs compared with constancy of adult coat.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[May 1869?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1527
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May] [1869]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 225]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Sedgwick, Sara
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[May 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
1869-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.257
Summary:
Comments on 'rubbish' published by Poet Laureate, EC's report of the weather of 1849, and the flowers and plants growing in JH's garden.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
2 May [1869-82]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:
"When a man has laboured hard in science & has proved that he is capable of original research, he may [some]times indulge in speculation [&] the public will indulge him. But even in this case it is a common error to speculate too largely, for speculation is far easier than observation or experiments . . ."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B176–7
Summary:
Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edmund FitzGibbon
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 May 1869
Source of text:
Unit 15, p. 153, VPRS 4025/P Town Clerk's letter press copy books, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
WR Birt
Date:
3 May 1869
Source of text:
MM/15/63, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
4 May 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 41–42)
Summary:
Discusses changes in 5th edition of Origin owing to new evidence. CD now places more value on action of external conditions; thinks lapse of time [required for development of species] not so great as some geologists have thought, and single variations [saltations] of even less importance compared with individual differences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 May [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.369)
Summary:
Asks for a photograph of CL to be used by a society [in Serbia].
Comments on article by Wallace ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", Q. Rev. 126 (1869): 359–94].
Has finished new edition of Origin [5th (1869)]
and is back at work on sexual selection [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Dean Caton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 170–1
Summary:
Females have no preference for particular males in deer and elk. Observations on sexual behaviour and characteristics of elk, deer, bison, and other animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 111: A79–80
Summary:
Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 30-31]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
Lyell 1881, 2: 441; DAR 85: A100–1
Summary:
Recalls Cuvier’s reaction to Principles of geology.
Comments on Wallace’s article in the Quarterly Review [see 6684].
Not opposed to ARW’s idea that Supreme Will might direct variation.
Quotes passage in letter from ARW arguing for causes other than selection in determining human abilities.
Discusses excavation of lakes by glaciers.
J. P. Lesley does not believe ice-sheets involved in eroding Appalachians.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1869
Source of text:
Lyell, K. M. (Ed.). (1881). In: Life Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart . Vol. 2. London: John Murray. [pp. 441-444]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Neil Arnott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.411
Summary:
Is sending a pamphlet. Has given the profits of his recent book to various universities.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
6 May [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/1)
Summary:
Dislikes the use of the term "degradation" as applied to the closed flowers of Viola species. Species with such self-fertilising flowers also have flowers adapted for crossing. The development of closed flowers adapted to ensure a sufficient stock of seed is progressive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project