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DCP-LETT-5459

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 170: 56
Summary:

Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
25 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 14)
Summary:

Thanks for facts on orchids.

Friedrich Hildebrand’s new book on fertilisation of plants [Die Geschlechten-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].

CD correcting proofs of Variation.

FM likes Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1468

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
25 March 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.271, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5460F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 27)
Summary:

Sends CD a Cardigan Jacket, ‘one of the most delightful inventions of the age’.

Discusses the Duke of Argyll.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-67-03-26a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 March 1867
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 260-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5462

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 157
Summary:

Has printed copies of CD’s queries [on expression] and will distribute them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5461

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 and 27 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 154–5
Summary:

Will be glad to have seeds of plants and CD’s climbing plant, which he has no doubt is Siphocampylus.

Anxious about his baby [Reginald Hooker].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
26 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Answers VOK’s questions regarding the size of forthcoming Variation and gives his consent to a translation.

But if Origin has not yet been translated into Russian, CD thinks it would be a better book to undertake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
26 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 65 (EH 88206509)
Summary:

Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5465

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 85: A103–5
Summary:

On Hottentot ideas of beauty in women; their preference for women with large posteriors. [See Descent 2: 345–6.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4548

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.102
Summary:

Asks if JH still considering editing William Herschel's R.S.P.T. publications. Suggests that Alexander Herschel edit the work. Speculates that William Herschel observed the 'willow leaves.' JH's star catalogue will be printed by the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 121
Summary:

Thanks WED for a present.

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].

Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5461F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
27 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 14)
Summary:

Does not care which photograph is engraved. Hopes to get specimens of Eozoon canadense for J. V. Carus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10723

From:
H. Temple Humphreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.76
Summary:

Would like JH's advice on the best shape for a rolling magnet with application for railway rolling stock.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13556

From:
Thomas Humphrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/MW-0246.7; Reel 15
Summary:

Announces quarterly meeting of National School Committee on 30 March.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 34–5
Summary:

Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10518

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.395
Summary:

[John?] Farley has just given him the readings for the minor planets. Encloses these and also readings for the major planets from U. J. J. Leverrier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5467

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 96: 34–5, Gardeners’ Chronicle , 6 April 1867, p. 350.
Summary:

Forwards some plant specimens to CD for his comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5607

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
28 March 1867
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5474

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 95 (Letters)
Summary:

Working on sexual differences in collection of horned beetles and will send CD results.

Answers CD’s questions [sent on behalf of Miss Tollet of Betley Hall, Staffs.] on mimicry – how it helps prevent extinction, the modifications occurring with a change of habitat until mimicry occurred.

Also gives some cases of sexual differences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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