From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 3–4
Summary:
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 76
Summary:
Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 5–6
Summary:
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 64 (EH 88206508)
Summary:
Encloses note of introduction to Murray.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
19 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 87
Summary:
Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 7
Summary:
On recent instalment of "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 50]. Approves of JDH’s abstract of argument for transport of species [i.e., migration, as opposed to continental extension hypothesis].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
23 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 88
Summary:
Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred James Woodhouse
Date:
25 Jan [1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 14 (EH 88206066)
Summary:
Two queries on teeth: 1. Is there evidence of inherited peculiarities in milk teeth?
2. Are male incisors longer than female?
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 8–9
Summary:
On final instalment of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 75]; rejoices at extent of their agreement.
Some criticisms of JDH’s position on geographical affinities, and volcanic islands.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 10–13
Summary:
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
11 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 155
Summary:
Thanks WT for information.
Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Charles Darwin
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 February 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library, DAR 92, 33-35, England
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
28 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A33–5
Summary:
Sends his [MS] questionnaire on expression and asks FvM’s help in obtaining answers based on observations of aborigines living in the interior of Australia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
4 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 89
Summary:
Thanks for information about the dotterel.
CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
5 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 144: 41
Summary:
Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 13a–e
Summary:
The date-palm seed case is important for Pangenesis.
Reports experiments on pollination of Ipomoea.
"Insular floras": A. Murray’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle is poor.
John Scott’s work on acclimatisation of plants.
The anomaly of the Azores flora on the migration theory.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Date:
[19 Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 33
Summary:
Offers the German rights of Variation if J. V. Carus is prepared to translate it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 13f–g
Summary:
Suggests change in sentence of JDH’s "Insular floras" to make meaning clear.
Naudin’s letter about hybrids.
Pangenesis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 92
Summary:
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
Contributor:
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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:
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