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DCP-LETT-3044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
7 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3936

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frances Fawcett
Date:
9 January 1861
Source of text:
APS Misc MS Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238)
Summary:

Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.

Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1013

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Daniell Nihill
Date:
14 February 1861
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3062

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
14 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Variations in nature arise from unknown causes, accidentally or spontaneously, and are preserved by natural selection if beneficial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.239)
Summary:

Asks for a rabbit specimen;

inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
12 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.240)
Summary:

Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].

Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241)
Summary:

Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.243)
Summary:

CD never dreamed primroses did not abound with DO; apologises for trouble and sends flowers.

Will repay DO for cost of Cypripedium and for the Dionaea, if any can be got.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3117

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.244)
Summary:

Discusses progress of CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].

CD had not thought of subsidence in connection with "roads" of Glen Roy.

Discusses habits of ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3123

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
21 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.245)
Summary:

Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3134

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
3 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.247)
Summary:

Has received the shipment of skeletons of fowls. Asks TCE species name of Gungla cock. Mentions other specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.246)
Summary:

CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
6 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.248)
Summary:

Discusses results of his examination of fowls’ skeletons. Wants to quote TCE on variation in skeletons of allied species. Asks about skulls of birds with topknots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
14 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.249)
Summary:

Asks TCE to confirm some general statements on resemblances in skeletons of birds of same genus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3163

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hunt
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.250)
Summary:

Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.251)
Summary:

Suggests procedures for breeding experiments with hollyhocks. Recommends C. F. v. Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)]. [See also 3151]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252)
Summary:

Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3183

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bingham Sibthorpe Malden
Date:
15–16 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.254)
Summary:

Thanks BSM for orchid specimens. Discusses various species of Orchis and Ophrys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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