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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.
Reports on health [of unidentified woman].
EAD will not think of coming to Down until their return.
Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.
Asks FD to make out [Hermann] Hoffmann’s conclusions about the fertilisation of Phaseolus multiflorus [in Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät (1869)].
Further discussion of the process of aggregation in response to [10137].
Tells CD of his many experiments on interarching vines, potato tubers, exudation of carbon dioxide from roots,
and the synchrony of the pulse and the step while walking.
Would like to meet CD.
Has observed a dun pony with black stripes.
Intends breeding native fowls and will happily furnish CD with any information he can.
Discusses the domestication of animals.
Since the new edition of Variation will be stereotyped, Murray’s will always have means to provide plates if they are wanted in America.
Explains their way of sending proofs for authors who want wide margins for corrections.
Thinks it better to keep Climbing plants for the annual trade sale.
Reports a hybrid ram and sow, the cuino of Mexico, which is very common and fertile.
RLT speculates on the "moral nature" of parental protection shown by humans and traces it back to its first occurrence in the animal world.
Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,
and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.
Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.
Defines biology as the science of external interactions.
German reception is far more positive than Italian.
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
Examples of pupillary dilation.
Informs CD of Chauncey Wright’s death.
Working on plant physiology; has not strength to discuss difficult subject with anyone.
On fertilisation in certain orchids.
Writing article for a German newspaper on CD’s life. Requests autobiographical information.
Thinks CD’s case of twins with crooked fingers may be one from his twin study.
Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]
Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?
