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DCP-LETT-5313F

From:
George Thomas (George) Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1868]
Source of text:
Variation 1: 50
Summary:

Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5749

From:
Richard Barwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 52a
Summary:

Crying and the action of the orbicularis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5770

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 288
Summary:

Thanks CD for his photograph.

Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5758

From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 172–3
Summary:

Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7040

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868–70?]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 164–5
Summary:

Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6711

From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1868 or 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.28
Summary:

Printed prospectus for volume of poems on Natural History and Physical Science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE481

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
21, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel9361

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[1868 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.113
Summary:

Comments on the bad habits creeping into the language of the German Academies. Sends list of papers and also a transcript of GE's paper for the Astronomische Nachrichten.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1471

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1868?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.274, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5077F

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Jan 186[8]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105 f. 222
Summary:

HCW’s criticisms of CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5774

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 207
Summary:

Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.

Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.

F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
2 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 62)
Summary:

CD seeks information on the variation of ocelli within species of butterflies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5773

From:
Alfred Wrigley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 180
Summary:

Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000933

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
unknown
Date:
3 January 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/208, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-5775

From:
Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 172: 14
Summary:

CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5776

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 211
Summary:

Discusses mule canaries which show a tendency to revert to wild plumage colours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10656

From:
Henry Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.29
Summary:

Makes no claim to originality for his experiments; thinks highly of Dr. W. C. Wells but would like to know whether [Pierre] Prévost's theory is tenable.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5778

From:
Frederik Anthony von Hartsen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 113
Summary:

Sends portion of his book, Grundlegung von Aesthetik [1869]. Argues that CD’s theory can be reconciled with religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5777

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
5 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018)
Summary:

Congratulates FH on graft-hybrid of potato. Importance of FH’s discovery to be discussed in Variation [2d ed., 1: 420].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5789

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Jan 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 194
Summary:

Discusses Balanophora with conspicuous male flowers and absent female perianth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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