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DCP-LETT-6615

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 272; DAR 193: 59–62
Summary:

Sends abstract of an article by Carrière [J. Agric. Pratique 1 (1869): 159–67] on the improvement of wild radish by selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6620

From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 179–81
Summary:

Habits of the fallow deer during the breeding season. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 803.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6621

From:
Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 4
Summary:

One of his students is interested in translating Orchids into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6619

From:
Hugo Thiel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 89
Summary:

Sends CD his pamphlet [Über Landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften (1868)];

expresses his admiration for CD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6622

From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 162
Summary:

Her memorial [for civil list pension] with the signatures of CD, John Lubbock, and Charles Lyell has arrived. It is now going to W. E. Gladstone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6623

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 44
Summary:

Has been trying to get Drosophyllum lusitanicum for CD.

Intends to breed from two pointers born tailless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6624

From:
Archibald McNeill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 177–8
Summary:

Answers CD’s letter of 15 Feb about voice of female and odour of stag red deer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6627

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 364
Summary:

There will be no objection to the French translation or difficulty about woodcuts of Orchids.

Has not yet received the information about Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6626

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 168
Summary:

Asks CD for references to animal breeders in order to test the hypothesis that mimicry arises through direct action of mental impressions received through the sense of sight.

Supports natural selection and Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6522

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 167
Summary:

Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6629

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 365
Summary:

Estimates cost of F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin at £86 for 750 copies, less than £10 extra for 1000.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6636

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 8
Summary:

Encloses a letter [from J. Croll?].

Has been unable to find a paper CD wanted.

Is leaving shortly for Paris.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6632

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A79–80
Summary:

References to works on probability;

statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6635

From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 28
Summary:

CD’s queries on expression of aborigines were difficult to answer because he encounters mainly those touched by civilisation. Hopes CD did get answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6634

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo Thiel
Date:
25 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 148: 71
Summary:

Thanks for publication applying CD’s theory to moral and social questions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0703

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[spring 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-6637

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 54
Summary:

On hybridism between the fox and dog; asks whether CD knows of a reliable case of offspring from this cross.

Does CD want details on a white cat with blue eyes, but not deaf?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6638

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 152–3
Summary:

Sexual differences in antelopes (Indian and African).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6656

From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 75
Summary:

Thanks for money, which will enable him to complete publication. Explains principles of his physiological theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6639

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 18a–f
Summary:

Sends a single specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum with description from F. de Avellar Brotero’s Flora Lusitanica [1804].

Discusses Portuguese ferns,

inherited mutilation,

and the earth’s geological history.

Evolution of behaviour and beauty by natural selection.

Contributor:
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