To John Edward Gray 27 January [1865]
Summary
Thanks JEG for congratulations [on Copley Medal?].
Mentions JEG’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.305) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4755 |
From John Edward Gray 28 February 1866
Summary
Has received the larva of the batrachian. Outlines its affinities. Problems of batrachian systematics.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5021 |
From J. E. Gray 9 April 1866
Summary
Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5052 |
From J. E. Gray 13 April 1866
Summary
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5056 |
To John Edward Gray 1 January [1840]
Summary
Testimonial in behalf of JEG’s application for the position of keeper of the zoological department of the British Museum from which John George Children was about to resign.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 1 Jan [1840] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library, J. E. Gray Miscellaneous papers vol. 1: f.118) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-548C |
From John Edward Gray 21 November 1867
Summary
Thanks for skins and skeletons.
Has been arranging sponges [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 495–558].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5692 |
From John Edward Gray 4 February 1868
Summary
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839 |
From J. E. Gray 6 February 1868
Summary
Would like a look at Nathusius.
Edward Blyth’s inability to recognise cats’ skulls.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5846 |
From J. E. Gray 13 February 1868
Summary
JEG and Nathusius on pigs.
Reference to JEG’s paper on African and Indian cats [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1867): 258–77, 874–6].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5875 |
From J. E. Gray 15 February 1868
Summary
Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.
Discussion of relationships of various pigs.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5880 |
To J. E. Gray 17 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.
Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5885 |
From J. E. Gray 17 February 1868
Summary
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5886 |
From J. E. Gray 2 March 1868
Summary
Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 159–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970 |
To J. E. Gray 2 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Winterbourne House and Garden, University of Birmingham (University Herbarium) (WBHERB.HST.L.25.1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5970G |
To J. E. Gray 25 January [1843]
Summary
Requests that Charles Lyell be permitted to borrow the coral reef specimens he presented to the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1843] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF/ZOO/205/4/144) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-660F |
From J. E. Gray 2 April 1871
Summary
Sexual differences in sloths. J. G. Wagler article on sloths [Isis 24 (1831): 604–12].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 95–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7652 |
From J. E. Gray 3 April 1871
Summary
Corrects error in his letter [7652] about date of Wagler article in Isis. Wagler said it was females that had the yellow dorsal spot.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7656 |
From J. E. Gray 7 April 1871
Summary
Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7663 |
To J. E. Gray 9 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information on colour differences in sexes of Lemur.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7670 |
To J. E. Gray 4 February [1873]
Summary
Is glad JEG has made out what the guemul is ["On the Guémul", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 10 (1872): 445–6; 11 (1873): 214–20, 308–10].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.411) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8758 |
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