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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
, Leonard Darwin
Date:
[July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 93–4, 97
Summary:
On the coloration of 26 species of Saharan birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[after July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v
Summary:
Questions from CD related to bird plumage and sexual differences, with answers by EB.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 217
Summary:
Has examined three races of the mouflon sheep and remarks on the extent of variation in them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 14
Summary:
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 209
Summary:
Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.
Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.
Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Pole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 56
Summary:
In Variation CD mentions colour-blindness in women. WP does not believe there are any proven cases.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick F. Geach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 23/2
Summary:
Answers to Expression questionnaire.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Addison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 279 (Letters)
Summary:
Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julia Margaret Pattle; Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 8
Summary:
On the rental by the Darwins of a house at Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julia Margaret Pattle; Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 9
Summary:
More on the rental by the Darwins of a house at Freshwater Bay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 220–1
Summary:
Sketches out subjects he intends to speak on at Norwich [BAAS meeting]: museums, CD’s work in botany, Pangenesis, early history of mankind.
Asks about CD’s "book on man" [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 129–32; DAR 161: 285
Summary:
Offers deerhound puppy.
Asks for photograph.
Encloses letter from George Cupples of notes, with excerpts from letters from Peter Robertson and John Wright, relating to difference in size between male and female deerhounds. Reports on weight statistics of ten [deerhound] puppies being observed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July [1868-70]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 308
Summary:
Asks CD what prompts dogs of all kinds to roll themselves in decayed animal matter; inherited habit or immediate gratification?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 76–7
Summary:
Thinks JDH would be wise not to touch on Pangenesis; it has very few friends. Bentham is doubtful, Carus against, and Alphonse de Candolle likes it least in the book. CD still convinced it will be hereafter looked on as "best hypothesis of generation inheritance & development". If JDH means to cut up Pangenesis he has no word to say in opposition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 15
Summary:
Corrects himself on Robinia pseud-acacia: its spines are stipules, which explains hereditary fixity.
AdeC’s observations on movement of scalp muscles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Inland Revenue
Date:
[17–21 July 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 55
Summary:
Cannot fill out a return [for foreign revenue?] until his return home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 49
Summary:
Comments on CD’s health.
Has received gold medal from Dutch Academy of Science for Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren [1869].
His Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts [1868] has been sharply attacked by the clergy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[18 July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 296
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 78–9
Summary:
Looks forward to seeing JDH and hearing about address.
Feels better already.
Disappointed in house [they have taken at Freshwater].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project