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DCP-LETT-5353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 3–4
Summary:

Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5354

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 343
Summary:

CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.

Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5355

From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A113–14
Summary:

Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.

Has now an extensive collection of insects.

Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.

Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.

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DCP-LETT-5356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 166)
Summary:

Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5357

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 288
Summary:

Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].

BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5359

From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 47: 181–9
Summary:

MS essay "On esculent fruits" [apparently enclosed in a missing letter].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5358

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 131–4
Summary:

Responds to CD’s criticisms. JDH is sometimes confused as to what he has borrowed from CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5360

From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 235
Summary:

Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5364

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 76
Summary:

Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 5–6
Summary:

More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5363

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 161)
Summary:

Approves of type [for Variation]. Pleased to hear from Hooker that he is not surprised that MS is big.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5365

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks BJS for W. H. Stirling’s answers [to queries about expression]

and for information on cattle and breeding of dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:

Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5366

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 170: 54
Summary:

JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5367

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 64 (EH 88206508)
Summary:

Encloses note of introduction to Murray.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5370

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 56
Summary:

Asks CD questions relating to the revised translation of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
19 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 87
Summary:

Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.

Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5372

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 135–7
Summary:

His view of CD’s hypothesis that Atlantic island genera are descended from extinct European plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5341

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Middleton
Date:
20 [Jan-Dec] 1867
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (in Middleton’s copy of Origin 4th ed., BB.5.6)
Summary:

Sorry he cannot remember where S. Filippe [San Felipe?] is.

Doubts that bones of ox, sheep, and horse could have been deposited in guano [on coast of Chile], but they would be worth examination.

[Tipped in copy of Origin (1866) with CHM’s bookplate.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 7
Summary:

On recent instalment of "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 50]. Approves of JDH’s abstract of argument for transport of species [i.e., migration, as opposed to continental extension hypothesis].

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