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DCP-LETT-5839G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Moultrie Salt
Date:
5 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Forwards a letter from John Horner of Market Drayton, Shropshire, concerning £2000 he considers due to him from CD under the terms of the will of Sarah Bayley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5839H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (17–18 October 2013)
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on Francis Darwin’s success in the tripos examinations at the university of Cambridge.

The king of Prussia has awarded him the order Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2599

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.497
Summary:

Will assume trusteeship if he is named in the document. Discusses trying to find Neptune with his telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5840

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 46
Summary:

Describes his lectures on CD’s theory.

Thanks CD for copy of Variation. Comments on book.

Describes work of two protégés in Jena: Nicolas von Miklucho[-Maclay] and Anton Dohrn.

His cousin, Wilhelm Bleek, is sending an article about the origin of language.

Asks to keep book a few months longer but will return it if CD needs it [Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries, vol. 3, pt 1: Géographie botanique (1840)].

Describes research on Siphonophora.

Describes life in Jena. Mentions alpine accident during wedding trip.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5845

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 212
Summary:

Discusses the origin and characters of sheep breeds, particularly the merino.

Reports observations on reversion to wild type in canary mules

and lists some animals that show a unique development restricted to one side of their bodies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5847

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 11
Summary:

Forwards a letter from Secretary of Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Hopes CD will honour them by accepting.

Has heard nothing of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5842

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
6 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148)
Summary:

There is so much detail in Variation that WDF will never be able to finish it. Some chapters, like that on reversion, are "curious".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-68-02-06

From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 February 1868
Source of text:
Director’s letterbooks, MVS 2/1 3, p. 228, Melbourne Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5846

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 214
Summary:

Would like a look at Nathusius.

Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
6 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/16)
Summary:

Delighted to hear of success of EH’s lectures.

Ernest Faivre [La variabilité des espèces (1868)] sees no reason to favour common descent of allied species.

Asks EH to pass German edition of Variation on to Gegenbaur.

Comments on work of Miklucho[-Maclay], Dohrn, and Bleek.

Has begun work on Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5844

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 354
Summary:

Advance sale of Variation has exhausted the 1500 copies printed. Murray sends note for £300 author’s payment. Wants to print 1250 more immediately.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5849

From:
William Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: 50
Summary:

Colour differences in annelids and entozoa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5850

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 251
Summary:

Thanks for loan of Variation. "The Saturday Sadducees" do not believe there are a hundred people who understand the argument. EC fancies he does.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5848

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: B48
Summary:

Thanks for Variation.

Reports work on his travel book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1885

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 February 1868
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B48
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 103
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 193-194]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel10594

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.472
Summary:

Hopes he can have JH's vote. Would like to add JH's name to his committee, which would not involve him in any work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14070

From:
Frederic J. Jackson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0291; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends copy of FJ's new theory of musical scale. Asks JH's opinion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5852

From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A51–4
Summary:

On the colours of the nudibranch Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 326.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2105

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 February? 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 75-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5839F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
T. S Noble
Date:
8 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Council Minute Book, vol. 3, p. 619 (2 March 1868)
Summary:

CD appreciates the honour of being elected an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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