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DCP-LETT-6673

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christoph Julius (Julius) Dub
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 62, 64
Summary:

CD will supply the sheets of the new edition of the Origin [5th ed. (1869)] if JD goes ahead with his work [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Arten der Organismen (1870)]. Has no objection to JD’s quoting him, but wonders whether the German publisher of Origin might not feel injured.

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DCP-LETT-6672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.367)
Summary:

Discusses views of Wallace, H. N. Moseley, and Croll on the mechanics of glacier movement.

Comments on Wallace’s new book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].

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DCP-LETT-6540

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
[before 21 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 262–5
Summary:

Replies to inquiries about his life and career.

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WCP1918

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 March 1869
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 173-177
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 237-239]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6677

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

Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6683

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Wilckens
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67r
Summary:

Thanks MW for two publications [see 6682].

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WCP1919

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 March [1869]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 178-180
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 240-241]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].

CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.

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DCP-LETT-6687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 254–6
Summary:

Congratulates WP on the success of his lectures.

Discusses the phrase "struggle for existence".

Sends a list of his papers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 121–2
Summary:

Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.

Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.

Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
31 Mar 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 208–209)
Summary:

Williams and Norgate inform CD that they dispatched the small parcel to Leipzig on 23 February. CD fears it may not be worth the trouble to CC.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
1 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Spruce 1908 , 2: 385
Summary:

RS’s facts are remarkable. A year or two ago CD would not have believed ants could produce an inherited effect, but he has "lately come to believe rather more in inherited mutilations". However, CD is not satisfied that the sacs are inherited and urges RS to produce any other evidence he might have.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
3 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17)
Summary:

Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.

Interested in galls

and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6098A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
6 Apr [1869-71]
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21)
Summary:

"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .

I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
7 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/10)
Summary:

Drosophyllum plants recovering [from trip]. Describes experiments on them.

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WCP1920

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 April 1869
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 181-183
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 96: 71-72
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 242-243]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6706

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 Apr 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 181–3)
Summary:

ARW’s review of 10th ed. of Lyell’s Principles [see 6684] is admirable.

But he differs "grievously" with ARW on man. CD sees no necessity for an additional and proximate cause.

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DCP-LETT-6698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants information on plumage of chickens

and table of sex ratios in greyhounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6705

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
18 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:

Not well owing to fall from horse.

[Drosophyllum] plants going on very well.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6702

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for greyhound table; interested in transmission of colour in greyhounds and relationship to sex.

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