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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 53)
Summary:

Exchange of photographs.

Aru pigs present perplexing case, whether wild or domesticated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 259
Summary:

Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.

His own health has been especially bad this last week.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robertson Munro
Date:
3 Feb [1865-6]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 16
Summary:

Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.

Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Max Ernst Wichura
Date:
3 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
Autographia (dealers) (1986)
Summary:

He has finished MEW’s work on hybrid willows [Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency of hybrid willows is new to CD, and he finds the explanation of their numbers in certain locations ingenious.

Comments on the criticism of Gärtner’s view of reversion

and the differences between MEW and Naudin.

CD now has doubts regarding his own view that hybrids are sterile from not being perfectly accommodated to their conditions of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
8 Feb 1865
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Requests all parts of Transactions due him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
9 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Inquires about body of Porto Santo rabbit which has not arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 260
Summary:

Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.

His health has been wretched.

Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
14 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.

The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Feb 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 261
Summary:

Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.

How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?

Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.

A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.

Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
21 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306)
Summary:

Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.

Also mentions account of Heer’s work

and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.

Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
27 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants his fowl MS.

Will shortly return WBT’s skulls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project