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DCP-LETT-7101

From:
George P. Bissell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 261 (Letters)
Summary:

Sends information on the distribution of various species in the U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7102

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 334
Summary:

Asks who the gentleman is who is studying cattle skulls; RS has some that he would like examined.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7103

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 172: 48
Summary:

Is glad to hear that CD is pleased with AN’s notice of his work on pigeons.

He will not soon forget the pleasure of his visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6611F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 Feb [1870-82]
Source of text:
Erbengemeinschaft Alberts (private collection)
Summary:

Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7105

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 165: 173
Summary:

Louis Agassiz’s ill health means AG will not get an answer to CD’s query from him. Suggests CD ask Agassiz’s son, Alexander.

Has no details about the origin of the cat-like behaviour of his dog.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7104

From:
Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: 162–3
Summary:

About a dog she supposes was suckled by a cat, since it washes its face with its paws.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7106

From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 228
Summary:

Draws CD’s attention to a paper by Maurice Girard containing observations on the fertilisation of Orchidaceae by two species of Longicornia [Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 9 (1869): xxxi–xxxii].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7107

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 190
Summary:

Hopes CD is coping with the very hard winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6617

From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 142
Summary:

Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7108

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1870
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends specimens of Passiflora and seeds for T. H. Farrer [letter enclosed with 7188].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7109

From:
William Swale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 324
Summary:

Sends CD some notes on the habits of the "American Blight Bird" in New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7110

From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 21 (EH 88206073)
Summary:

Notes the differences in haemoglobin between species; this proves, to WP, that natural selection does not act only on morphological development.

Remarks on the differences and similarities in the effects of prussic acid on different groups of animals.

Questions CD on his early education and influences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7039F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 17 Feb 1870]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 36)
Summary:

Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustav Jäger
Date:
17 Feb 1870
Source of text:
Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection)
Summary:

Encloses his letter to GJ [6885], which was returned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
17 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
Ralph Colp Jr (private collection)
Summary:

Comments on effects of prussic acid on different individuals of the same species and other physiological research by WP.

Provides information about his studies in Edinburgh and Cambridge and qualifications he had for Beagle voyage. Describes influence of R. E. Grant and J. S. Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7113

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
Isle of Wight Record Office (Ac 2008/79)
Summary:

Invites WDF to visit.

Describes activities of his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7114

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 60
Summary:

Moritz Wagner is going to attack selection theory in his new book on his travels in America [Naturwissenschaftliche Reisen im tropischen Amerika (1870)].

K. G. Semper may attack CD’s theory of coral islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 164–6
Summary:

Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.

A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7115F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Garner
Date:
22 Feb [1870-1]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections (bound into Garner 1844 )
Summary:

Thanks for sending him a hybrid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
22 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (17 March 1995); Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1 October 1953)
Summary:

"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.

I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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