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DCP-LETT-1599

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
12 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:

Regrets he cannot come to hear DS’s paper ["On the structure of Mont Blanc", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 11 (1855): 11–27]. Has a lively interest in the subject.

Edward Forbes has misrepresented his view on foliation and cleavage [Athenæum 30 Sept 1854].

CD is convinced DS’s view will replace Huttonian and Lyellian view of metamorphic schists.

Recommends H. C. Sorby’s paper [probably "On the origin of slaty cleavage", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].

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DCP-LETT-6215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 May [1868]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Glad to have JJW’s opinion on nest-building. Wallace’s view [that skill is learned] is opposed to many facts.

Asks JJW about birds and their behaviour.

Wants information on the first plumage of different breeds of canaries.

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DCP-LETT-6371F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Syer Bristowe
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.

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DCP-LETT-6845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Merle Norman
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:

Asks whether AMN has any specimens of British calcareous sponges that CD could forward to Haeckel, who is studying them.

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DCP-LETT-8564F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
[c. 1 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Crerar Manuscript 131)
Summary:

Will let CIFM know [probably about John Murray’s terms for an Italian translation of Expression].

Thanks for information about hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].

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DCP-LETT-8731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Spectator
Date:
11 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Spectator , 18 January 1873, p. 76.
Summary:

Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.

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DCP-LETT-10843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.

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DCP-LETT-12689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
16 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.

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DCP-LETT-13249

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Talbot
Date:
19 July 1881
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Interested in investigation of child development. Suggests questions. Does education of parents influence mental power of children? Desirable to test statement that coloured children at first learn as fast as white but afterwards fall behind. Does pitch of chidren’s voices vary with mood? Children’s tastes often related to occupation of progenitor. Do these last?

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