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DCP-LETT-13864F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1861–82]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3040F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[1861]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134)
Summary:

Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6)
Summary:

Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.

THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.

Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].

In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3041A

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Summary:

Comments on the travels of JDH.

Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.

Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 5 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 5 January 1861, pp. 4–5
Summary:

Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
7 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3045

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:

Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
9 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.

Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3046F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 117
Summary:

Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3047

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 85
Summary:

CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.

H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.98–99)
Summary:

Thinks third edition of Origin should advertise "additions and corrections", for the additions are important. They will add 30 pages to the book; there will also be a short historical sketch. Asks for some copies for friends.

Also curious to know how Journal of researches has sold. The new issue seemed a rash venture to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
22 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (MS 29)
Summary:

Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2661

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
22 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989)
Summary:

Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 [Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12)
Summary:

Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 61
Summary:

Writes of Henrietta’s illness.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3052

From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 173–4
Summary:

Physiological changes in Shetland ponies and seagulls resulting from change in diet.

Reports on the discovery of eyeless beetles in cellar [i.e., not caves]. How did they get there, and whence?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3053

From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1861
Source of text:
DAR 46.2 (ser. 3): 54–5
Summary:

Identifies two dipterous species of parasites [chalcidites].

Was not able to attend to the aphids last year, but will make use of CD’s suggestions and "study as much as I can the inquiry as to species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238)
Summary:

Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.

Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3055

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is obliged for WBT’s "curious case". Discusses the effects of castration on development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12)
Summary:

Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.

Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.

Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?

Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.

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