The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.
Introduces J. P. Lesley, "the most accomplished geologist of the United States".
LA clarifies his opposition to CD’s views, which does not blind him to the great value of CD’s original researches.
Answers CD’s questions regarding sexual coloration of Amazonian fishes and the protuberances on the head of male Geophagus and Cichla during the spawning season [see Descent, pp. 520, 529].
Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.
Statistics on proportion of sexes in lambs.
Statistics on proportion of sexes of lambs.
WA explains the figures he sent GC. In his experience female lambs at the time of castration outnumber the males. [Robert] Elliot differs.
Has received diploma from the University of Breslau [honorary doctorate in medicine and surgery]. Should he forward it or will CD pick it up in London? [See 3226a and 3446.]
Has forwarded a diploma from the University of Breslau [Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery].
Has learned CD will soon publish a new work, in three parts: I. "Descent of man", II. "On sexual selection", and III. "Expression of the emotions"; would like to translate one part for inclusion in Revue des Cours [Littéraires et] Scientifiques, and at the same time translate and publish the complete work for France.
Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Praise for Orchids.
Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.
Thanks for CD’s experimental suggestions. Will count seeds of hybrid crosses.
Requests suggestions for Edinburgh Botanical Society expedition to British Columbia.
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
Has done Primula polyanthus experiment CD suggested.
Bryanthus erectus, said by [D. D.?] Cunningham to be a hybrid, has been found wild in North America.
CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.
Sends sprig of Linum luteum corymbiflorum [?]. CD is right about its being dimorphic.
Will try some odd strawberry crosses this summer.
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].
Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.
