From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:
Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 117
Summary:
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 85
Summary:
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
22 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989)
Summary:
Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 61
Summary:
Writes of Henrietta’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 173–4
Summary:
Physiological changes in Shetland ponies and seagulls resulting from change in diet.
Reports on the discovery of eyeless beetles in cellar [i.e., not caves]. How did they get there, and whence?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1861
Source of text:
DAR 46.2 (ser. 3): 54–5
Summary:
Identifies two dipterous species of parasites [chalcidites].
Was not able to attend to the aphids last year, but will make use of CD’s suggestions and "study as much as I can the inquiry as to species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 87
Summary:
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1861
Source of text:
DAR 181: 156
Summary:
Discusses the colouring of the young of various breeds of rabbit.
Observations on results of various poultry crosses and on a character which is linked to sex.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451)
Summary:
Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 86
Summary:
Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 88
Summary:
Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
Ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 157); DAR 145
Summary:
Invites Mrs Huxley and the children to spend a fortnight at Down.
MS of Chauncey Wright’s review has not yet arrived.
[P.S. missing from original.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 3 (EH 88205941)
Summary:
Sends correspondence between Dr Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I [of Etruria] on glaciers.
Also a pamphlet [Asa Gray, Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] containing "the best account" of the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 29
Summary:
Comments on JL’s Seasons with sea-horses [1861]. Thinks JL bold to defend his bear–whale illustration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
26 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 39 (EH 88206022)
Summary:
Praise for DO’s paper on Hamamelidaceae ["On Sycopis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 83–9, read 15 Mar 1860]. Everything points to its being a "bankrupt" family.
Hydropathy at Malvern may take him from Drosera. Requests Dionaea and Cypripedium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
27 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 131
Summary:
CD expresses his gratification that a geologist of AG’s standing and influence subscribes to the idea of the mutability of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 154–5
Summary:
Will be pleased to review Asa Gray’s pamphlet [see 3068].
Is not surprised that blind cave insects are sometimes found in other dark places.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 89
Summary:
Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 171.1(3): 95
Summary:
Asks for a testimonial for Edward Newman.
Discusses the Origin, considers natural selection works well when applied to the evolution of nations and groups of men; on the other hand feels the classification of mineral elements is a damaging analogy as it parallels organic classification but could not be derived by any evolutionary means.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project