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DCP-LETT-2654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baden Powell
Date:
18 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

CD is pleased by BP’s appreciative opinion of Origin. He never intended to claim that he originated the doctrine that species have not been independently created. The only novelty in his work is the attempt to explain how species became modified and how the theory of descent explains large classes of facts. If he has taken anything from BP, he has done so unconsciously. Gives names of those he would have mentioned in any account of authors who maintained that species have not been separately created.

CD greatly admires BP’s Philosophy of creation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2655

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baden Powell
Date:
18 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

To avoid possible misundertanding of his letter [2654] of that morning, CD wishes to make clear that he did not wish to imply that BP’s essay and the Vestiges of creation were in the same class. The more he thinks of it the more difficult he feels it would be to give a fair account of the authors who have maintained the modification of species. CD finds that he referred to BP’s views in the preface to his larger work [Natural selection], which was replaced by the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 379
Summary:

Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.

Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".

Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3035

From:
Gideon Lincecum
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1860
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Gives observations on the habits of the "agricultural ant" of Texas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3082

From:
Gideon Lincecum
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1861
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (MS S.P. 604A)
Summary:

Reports on the habits of the cutting ant of Texas, particularly its habit of planting shade trees to protect its mound from sun.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3112

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
5 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.704A)
Summary:

Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
18 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends paper to be read ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3477

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
18 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Asks that referee of his [Catasetum] paper be informed that if it is ordered to be printed he will borrow woodcuts. But if referee thinks fit, he will withdraw it, for almost all will be published in Orchids. He is not willing to spare time to condense it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-12-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
4 December 1862
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1857–64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-63-06-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
June 1863
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.

Thanks for Passiflora trials.

"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."

CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4767

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
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FVM-65-03-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
2 March 1865
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1865-70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-07-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
24 July 1865
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1865-1870
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-11-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
2 November 1865
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1865-70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-01-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
January 1866
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1865-70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-01-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
17 January 1866
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, foreign members and associates 1865-1870
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
31 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4)
Summary:

Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
16 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, C451: Opuscula
Summary:

F. Hildebrand, in his recent article [Bot. Ztg. 10 (1866): 73–8], describes what GH showed CD about Indigofera’s irritability.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-66-05-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
25 May 1866
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1865-1870
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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