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DCP-LETT-6541A

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193)
Summary:

A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9224F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:

Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6541

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 54
Summary:

Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.

Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6533

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869]
Source of text:
Paget ed. 1901 , p. 408
Summary:

"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6543

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 287
Summary:

Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.

Reports six-toed pup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6542

From:
James Orton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 173: 37
Summary:

Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.

Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-6547

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 102
Summary:

Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?

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-6548

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 288
Summary:

Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6549

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 76: B34–5
Summary:

Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.

Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.

Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6551

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 105, 116
Summary:

Praises Variation and Pangenesis.

Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.

Contributor:
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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-5729

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Jan] 1869
Source of text:
DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3
Summary:

Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6553

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 103
Summary:

In Gibraltar he will make notes on merino lambs and Drosophyllum as CD requests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6555

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 289
Summary:

Forwards A. McNeill’s letter on deer horns. McNeill wrote portion on deerhounds in William Scrope’s book [The art of deer-stalking (1838)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6556

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 51
Summary:

Red tape leaves no time for botany.

New ministry laudably attempting economies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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