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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 March [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 50
Summary:
Further observations on horns of fallow deer. Sends fawn’s head.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 248
Summary:
Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 45
Summary:
Is forwarding potted specimens of Drosophyllum.
Will make inquiries about sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 116-17
Summary:
Transmits letter [from Fritz Müller].
Has been asked to permit a French translation of Orchids and Journal of researches.
At work on sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 366
Summary:
Sends statement [missing] of cost and proceeds of publishing Facts and arguments for Darwin at 6s. Asks whether CD agrees to this price.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Landor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 244
Summary:
Suggests that ground ice, in Canada and similar countries, is a mode of distribution of boulders and animal and vegetable life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B77–8
Summary:
Weir’s paper on relation of protection to colour of caterpillars [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6; (1870): 337–9] confirms ARW’s hypothesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282
Summary:
Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 10–11
Summary:
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 317
Summary:
Nothing new in Lushington’s letter. Two paragraphs are offensive – that THH sought to stir up Scotch Presbyterian prejudices against Comte at Edinburgh and that he had not read Comte.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 367
Summary:
Book [Facts and arguments for Darwin] is being bound; it is probably too late to alter lettering.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 264)
Summary:
Apologises for passing on what he agrees were offensive remarks in V. Lushington’s letter. Has told VL he had no right to make them. Asks THH to make allowance for red-hot disciples defending the master.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vernon Lushington
Date:
[12 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 74
Summary:
Huxley has acknowledged receipt of VL’s letter. Both he and CD feel that some of VL’s statements were a little offensive although CD is sure this was not intended. Was glad to read the condensed statement of Comte’s claims in VL’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
12 and 16 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 541; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Summary:
Thanks for specimen of Drosophyllum.
Describes capacity of various plants to catch flies.
Cannot name fern specimen.
Laugher pigeon descended from Columba livia.
Discusses tailless dogs.
Believes astronomical phenomenon responsible for oscillation of level of earth’s crust.
Would WCT like copy of Orchids?
Expected plants [Drosophyllum] have arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 129
Summary:
EF is seeking a French editor for Orchids [1870]. Introduces L. Rérolle, his student. [See 6667.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 118–20
Summary:
Envies JDH’s Russian trip.
Thanks for information on Aucuba. Urges him to experiment – case "has highest physiological importance, not to mention Pangenesis".
Has heard that Huxley has been attacking views of Sir W. Thomson.
Has received 12 plants of Drosophyllum lusitanicum from Oporto.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 318
Summary:
Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 129
Summary:
LR undertakes translation of Orchids [1870]. Awaits CD’s new footnotes and intends to look at every flower CD mentions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Friedrich Claus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 178
Summary:
The cirripede material mentioned in CD’s letter of 10 Feb has not arrived. [Asks CD to inquire of Williams and Norgate, who forwarded it.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Document type
Repository
- Cambridge University Library
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College2
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond2
- Sotheby's (dealers)2
- The British Library2
- American Philosophical Society1
- English Heritage, Down House, Downe1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Taylor Library, Shrewsbury School1