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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.
Crying and the action of the orbicularis.
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.
Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.
Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]
HCW’s criticisms of CD’s theory.
Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.
Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.
F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.
CD seeks information on the variation of ocelli within species of butterflies.
Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.
CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.
Discusses mule canaries which show a tendency to revert to wild plumage colours.
Sends portion of his book, Grundlegung von Aesthetik [1869]. Argues that CD’s theory can be reconciled with religion.
Congratulates FH on graft-hybrid of potato. Importance of FH’s discovery to be discussed in Variation [2d ed., 1: 420].
Discusses Balanophora with conspicuous male flowers and absent female perianth.
Asks about expression of emotion among Negroes and American Indians in Nicaragua. Queries enclosed.
Thanks for plant names.
H. C. Watson a renegade about natural selection. Discusses HCW’s views.
F. Müller’s letter enclosed.
Friedrich Hildebrand’s experiments are splendid for Pangenesis [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
Has sent off last portion of index [to Variation]. Hopes CD will be pleased with it. Will never undertake such labour again. He fears it has been an unfavourable way to make CD’s acquaintance. Trusts to CD’s goodness not to hate his name for the rest of his life.
Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.
Has seen CD’s "carte" offered for sale.
Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.