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DCP-LETT-2643

From:
Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1860 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 85: 39
Summary:

Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.

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DCP-LETT-2935

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.230)
Summary:

Comments on letter from Jeffries Wyman.

Discusses reprinting reviews by Asa Gray.

Mentions views of W. S. Symonds on the geological record.

Discusses descent of turtles and tortoises.

The universality of variation.

Notes only a few species leave modified descendants.

Discusses Apteryx.

Variation among pigeons.

Comments on fertility among hybrids.

Does not agree that he makes natural selection do too much work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2936

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12)
Summary:

JW’s case of black hogs shows marvellous relation of colour and constitution.

Could JW get information about eyes of cave rat?

Was JW struck by length of hind legs of male cattle?

CD has long shared JW’s doubts that mutilations were ever inherited but Brown-Séquard’s case seems to settle question.

Is not case of cats with blue eyes being deaf very odd?

Spinal stripes on horse too common to explain in way informant supposes.

Believes Owen "goes a long way with us", though he attacked CD in Edinburgh Review.

"No one other person understands me so thoroughly as Asa Gray."

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DCP-LETT-2937

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 397
Summary:

CD would have carried the public more if he had explained adaptations by multiple causes, some unknown and some well known, i.e., natural selection.

Discusses Hooker’s views of extinction on St Helena.

Work on antiquity of man suspended.

Stopped by 11th edition of Principles of geology [1872].

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DCP-LETT-2940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.

Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.

CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.

Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.

Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.

Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.

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DCP-LETT-2938

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.231)
Summary:

Discusses views of T. V. Wollaston concerning island species related to those of mainland; possible land connection between islands and mainland.

Comments on bats of Atlantic islands.

Plant extinction on St Helena.

Experiments on Drosera.

Bronn’s objections [to the Origin] at end of his translation.

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DCP-LETT-2939

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 14 (EH 88205998)
Summary:

A poser: carbonate of soda produces inflection rather than contraction in Drosera. Possible solution: glands at end of hairs absorb as well as secrete. Fascinated by currents in cells after inflection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2940A

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 22)
Summary:

Wonders why the coracoid bone in the flightless Apteryx is so large when the clavicles are reduced. The clavicles are even separate in the ostrich. The large coracoid in reptiles is explained by the connection to the forelimbs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2944

From:
James Drummond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 162.2: 242
Summary:

Observations of Brunonia and a case of a malvaceous flower, which never opened and was self-fertilised.

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DCP-LETT-2943

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 54–7
Summary:

Thanks CD for his patience and good-nature; does not want a controversial correspondence but wishes to reply to matters in CD’s letter, and does.

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DCP-LETT-2942

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.232)
Summary:

Encloses advertisement [for C. R. Bree, Species not transmutable (1860)].

Discusses Bronn’s chapter of criticisms.

Mentions variation in rats.

Has ordered book by Bree.

Discusses suggestion that southern corners of Australia may once have been islands.

Mentions "wild speculations" about change in earth’s axes.

CL’s ideas on variation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[10 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 13 (EH 88205997)
Summary:

Delighted to try experiments on Drosera spathulata.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2945

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A79–80
Summary:

Sends further details on the movement of the red fluid substance in Drosera. Will write a paper on it.

"Dr [C. R.] Bree ""pitches"" into me handsomely."

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DCP-LETT-2947

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
12 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.82–83)
Summary:

Lyell tells CD Origin still sells "pretty well", which pleases and surprises him. If a new edition should be called for, he has a good many corrections and a historical preface for it.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
12 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 16 (EH 88206000)
Summary:

Requests DO apply carbonate of ammonia to sensitive hair of Dionaea and measure reaction time. Wants to compare Drosera and Dionaea.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2946A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
12 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Journal of researches (1860) REF COLLECTION K SMITH WOODWARD DAR)
Summary:

Wants to amend request [see 2946] if DO wants to try carbonate of ammonia experiment. Put third drop on midrib of leaf [of Dionaea] or inside upper side.

Sorry DO already has Origin. Would he like Journal of Travels [Journal of researches]?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2934

From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 15] Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 317
Summary:

Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?

Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.

Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.

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DCP-LETT-2947B

From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
13 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 4
Summary:

Has not himself experimented with delicacy of tests but sends several illustrations of what other authorities have done. Reference to James Marsh’s test for arsenic and that of Ashley Paston Price for iodine.

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DCP-LETT-2950

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
14 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 314
Summary:

Discusses letter from A. W. v. Hofmann concerning solution of iodine in water.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2949

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 17 (EH 88206001)
Summary:

Has examined nearly all British orchids.

Hooker’s error on Listera.

Change in colour and consistency of Drosera hair glands after leaf inflection. Analogous structures in Dionaea. Requests Oliver confirm these observations on live plants, of which he has none.

In a muddle over the effects of salts on insectivorous plants.

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