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DCP-LETT-3970

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 176
Summary:

Hopes they might meet as WDF has to come to town.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Victor Naudin
Date:
7 Feb 1863
Source of text:
Progressus rei botanicæ 4 (1913): 94
Summary:

Thanks for informative letter of 2 February. CD is glad to have CVN’s opinion on the crossing of varieties of melons,

has made use of his memoir on the Cucurbitaceae ["Cucurbitacées cultivées au Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle en 1862", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 18 (1863): 159–208]

and anticipates with great interest his work on hybridisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3971

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 174: 4
Summary:

Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3897F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 Feb 1863 or earlier]
Source of text:
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (Paul Philemon Kies Autograph Collection, 1533–1970: 1 Autograph letters, 1533–1970 box 1, folder 55)
Summary:

Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3974

From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 42
Summary:

Has read Origin with satisfaction. He had long ago come to consider the fixity of species as contrary to the facts, but could see no suitable alternative. The Origin has brought the light to guide him.

Sends CD a copy of his latest work ["Mémoire sur la production artificielle des monstruosités", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 243–76]. Hopes to explain a great number of anomalies by his experimental work on artificially produced monstrosities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[8 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19)
Summary:

On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[10 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 136)
Summary:

Invites WDF to Down.

His stomach now so bad he cannot stay, even with close relations, for more than half an hour at a time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3959

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 243
Summary:

Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.

Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3976

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 281
Summary:

Sends some tickets so that CD’s son might see [an unspecified] model.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3979

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 177
Summary:

Plans to meet CD in town.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3977

From:
Henrietta Grace Smyth; Henrietta Grace Powell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 13
Summary:

Invites CD to visit on Sunday afternoon, for a quiet discussion with Huxley, the Bishop of Natal [J. W. Colenso], and herself. Will not trouble him with any eating.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3978

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 196
Summary:

Has been unable to find a book [unspecified] wanted by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
[12 Feb 1863?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76
Summary:

Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3980

From:
Ludolph Christian Treviranus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 182
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Über Dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Ch. Darwin", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 1–7, 9–16].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3985

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 63
Summary:

On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3985A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 24
Summary:

Agreement to cancel the bond of D. T. Ansted, dated 19 April 1855. Prof. Ansted is arranging to pay CD what he can.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3983

From:
Edwin Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 325
Summary:

Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].

On tactics of his opponents.

He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3982

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
[14 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988)
Summary:

Delighted by curious case of inheritance in the weeping ash [cited in missing letter from TR] "which produced weeping seedlings and itself lost the weeping peculiarity!" Wishes he could get authentic information on the weeping elm.

What TR says of seedlings conquering each other well illustrates struggle for existence and natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3984

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 154
Summary:

Points out some errata in the Origin.

Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.

Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 181
Summary:

Asa Gray on democracy of plants.

Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.

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