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DCP-LETT-6545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 37–38)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sven Nilsson
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers)
Summary:

Thanks SN for the trouble he has taken for him [on Lapland reindeer horns].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6546F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[6–9? Jan 1869]
Source of text:
Cupples 1894, p. 165
Summary:

Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6547F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
10 Jan 1869
Source of text:
J. C. Irons 1896 , p. 215
Summary:

Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 94: 110–11
Summary:

Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/14)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6557

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 112–13
Summary:

Finds JDH’s comments of utmost value. Answers some questions, and asks new ones. Transmission of variations. Relation of uniformity of structure to natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6559

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
17 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/15)
Summary:

Describes Drosophyllum and its habitat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6565

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kencely Bridgman
Date:
21 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 146
Summary:

Discusses fertilisation of Aucuba and Polygala.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6563

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Fairfax; Mary Greig; Mary Somerville
Date:
21 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of MS’s book [On molecular and microscopic science, (1869)]. Part on orchids is an excellent summary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1913

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 January [1869]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 165-166
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 233]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6568

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 114—15
Summary:

No paradox that unimportant characters are important systematically. This view removes heavy burden from CD’s shoulders. Relief that JDH does not object.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 165–6)
Summary:

Response to letter about dedication of Malay Archipelago and several scientific papers.

Changes in 5th ed. of Origin.

Now feels individual differences of paramount importance. Fleeming Jenkin has convinced him about "single variations".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Orton
Date:
23 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Thanks JO for intending to dedicate his The Andes and the Amazon to him.

The discovery of marine shells high up the Amazons CD finds extremely interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
24 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.359)
Summary:

Has heard that book by Alphonse M[ilne]-Edwards [? Recherches anatomiques et paléontologiques, 4 vols. (1867–71)] is excellent.

Asks when horns appear on young male fallow deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
27 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360)
Summary:

Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
28 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 205–207)
Summary:

Thanks CC for two memoirs [see 6575. The other was possibly "Die Cypris-ähnliche Larve der Cirripedien", Schr. Ges. Beförd Naturw. Marburg (1869)].

Haeckel is too enthusiastic and too bold in drawing conclusions.

CD sees no reason to add to what he says on isolation, in new edition of Origin.

Lists specimens he has available for CC’s intended study of metamorphoses of Lepas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
31 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.361)
Summary:

Returns book with thanks. "Joyfully accepts" idea of the warming of Southern Hemisphere during glacial period in the Northern. Lyell is unwilling.

Mentions H. N. Moseley’s study of descent of glaciers [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

CD greatly troubled by problem of age of the earth and calculations of Sir William Thomson. Asks about changes in the form of the globe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3426A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
31 Jan [1869?]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (pasted in Mueller 1858–82, vol. 1)
Summary:

"You are most perfectly welcome to Fragmenta [F. J. H. von Mueller Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858–64)], & I shall be delighted if they are of the slightest use to you."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1–3 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 192–193)
Summary:

Asks JM to grant permission for a French translation of his "Naturalist’s voyage" [Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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