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DCP-LETT-6690

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 241
Summary:

Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].

Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6474

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.242
Summary:

Is pleased with the interest JH is taking in his volume. Understands the difficulty of comprehending it at once. Further comments on his own dynamical theory of dispersion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7903

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[1 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.107 (C: 24.255)
Summary:

Thanks for answers and for notice on Apteryx [Maerurus ?], which JH remembers watching Richard Owen inspect. Interested in W. B. Carpenter's and C. W. Thomson's ['Bathybius?]' as origin of chalk-flint. Discusses inorganic chemical allotropes. Organic allotropes may exist, serving as 'agents of vital action' and subject to a higher power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
1 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Spruce 1908 , 2: 385
Summary:

RS’s facts are remarkable. A year or two ago CD would not have believed ants could produce an inherited effect, but he has "lately come to believe rather more in inherited mutilations". However, CD is not satisfied that the sacs are inherited and urges RS to produce any other evidence he might have.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000941

From:
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
To:
Royal Society
Date:
3 April 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/217, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-5482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
3 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17)
Summary:

Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.

Interested in galls

and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12505

From:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.371
Summary:

Comments on exchange of astronomical works with JH. CP expects to improve the observatory library now that the Prussians have taken over Altona. Is making arrangements to carry out some pendulum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6692F

From:
George M’Ilvaine Ramsey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 3
Summary:

Describes the work he is writing, Cosmology (Ramsay 1870).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6098A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
6 Apr [1869-71]
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21)
Summary:

"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .

I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
7 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/10)
Summary:

Drosophyllum plants recovering [from trip]. Describes experiments on them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6694

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 172: 47
Summary:

Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.

Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10184

From:
Amédée Victor Guillemin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.71
Summary:

Is preparing a new edition of his book Le ciel, which J. N. Lockyer is translating into English. Would like to reproduce new information on shooting stars and meteors and would like JH's assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6696

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 46
Summary:

Insectivorous plants; Drosophyllum lusitanicum.

Descriptions of the local sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE340

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
14 Apr 1869
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 313, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-6706

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 Apr 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 181–3)
Summary:

ARW’s review of 10th ed. of Lyell’s Principles [see 6684] is admirable.

But he differs "grievously" with ARW on man. CD sees no necessity for an additional and proximate cause.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6697

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 242
Summary:

Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;

discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6699

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 224
Summary:

Will attempt to provide CD with the information requested as soon as he can.

Gives references to some recent papers and articles which might interest CD.

Is currently reviewing Wallace’s new book [Malay Archipelago].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants information on plumage of chickens

and table of sex ratios in greyhounds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6700

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B29–33
Summary:

Numerical proportion of males to females in greyhound puppies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6704

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 104
Summary:

He has found abundant Drosophyllum in Andalusia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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