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DCP-LETT-13864F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1861–82]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3040F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[1861]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134)
Summary:

Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6)
Summary:

Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.

THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.

Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].

In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3041A

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Summary:

Comments on the travels of JDH.

Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.

Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 5 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 5 January 1861, pp. 4–5
Summary:

Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
7 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3045

From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:

Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
9 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.

Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3046F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 117
Summary:

Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3047

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 85
Summary:

CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.

H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3048

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.98–99)
Summary:

Thinks third edition of Origin should advertise "additions and corrections", for the additions are important. They will add 30 pages to the book; there will also be a short historical sketch. Asks for some copies for friends.

Also curious to know how Journal of researches has sold. The new issue seemed a rash venture to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
22 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (MS 29)
Summary:

Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2661

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
22 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989)
Summary:

Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 [Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12)
Summary:

Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 61
Summary:

Writes of Henrietta’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3052

From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 173–4
Summary:

Physiological changes in Shetland ponies and seagulls resulting from change in diet.

Reports on the discovery of eyeless beetles in cellar [i.e., not caves]. How did they get there, and whence?

Contributor:
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