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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1868 – Aug 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B73
Summary:

Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.

Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
South Eastern Railway
Date:
[c. Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 49
Summary:

Wishes correspondent to investigate immediately the loss of two boxes in transit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 89–90
Summary:

Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.

Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.

Huxley’s want of judgment.

JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.

Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:

Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Surprised and pleased JBI liked his "big book" [Variation].

Luckily, naturalists do not seem to think he has committed suicide with the work.

CD wants to turn over the school accounts to John Robinson [curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news.

Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 173: 1
Summary:

Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.354)
Summary:

Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Fletcher Hance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 96
Summary:

Sends CD an article [missing] on the early domestication and culture of the goldfish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Would like information on the first plumage of poultry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 233–4
Summary:

Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.

Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].

Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.

The Asa Grays at Kew.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 95–6
Summary:

Sexual differences in plumage of birds; various species compared.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B67
Summary:

Accepts invitation.

Contributor:
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From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 31
Summary:

Strong support for theory of descent.

Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.

CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emanuel Bonavia
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 26 September 1868, p. 1013
Summary:

Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/46)
Summary:

Appreciates MJB’s address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7]. Has had great respect for MJB’s knowledge since his undergraduate days at Cambridge.

Agrees that Pangenesis gemmules probably do not develop into free cells, but penetrate other cells in a manner analogous to fertilisation, and modify their development.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 77
Summary:

Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 271
Summary:

Pleased to have met the Darwins.

Sends his photograph.

Printers are past the index in vol. 2 of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8–10 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 91–2
Summary:

Has written to A. J. Gower.

Sends more copies of Queries about expression.

Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?

Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.

M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].

CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.

Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 216
Summary:

Thanks CD for invitation to Down.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273)
Summary:

Asks about the differences in colour of plumage of adult male, female, and young birds. Suggests pile game as subject.

Asks about relative proportion of sexes in ducks and fowls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project