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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

SOMERVILLE440

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 145, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE331

From:
John Herschel / Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 306, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

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

Herschel939

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1869-1-5 or later]
Source of text:
JHS 6.62
Summary:

Is a listing of some of JH's papers in an attempt to clarify how many were distributed, and then JH indicates how many he will send to addressee.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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

SOMERVILLE375

From:
J Gwyn Jeffreys
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
7 Jan 1869
Source of text:
MSJ 1 / 24, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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FL-0611

From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
8 January [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel6463

From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.231
Summary:

Has sent the figures accompanying his second communication to the lithographers. Thinks his letter of 22 Dec. intelligible without them. Will send the proofs of the paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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
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FL-0706

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[11 January 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 67
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-69-01-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Story
Date:
11 January 1869
Source of text:
Crowther Library, Hobart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1458

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[11 January 1869]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H723
Summary:

Requests sending of a copy of recent R.S.L. Proceedings to JH's son in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000561

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Henry Edward Armstrong
Date:
12 January 1869
Source of text:
MM/10/93, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

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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JHC1180

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
12 January 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.144, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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