To J. D. Hooker 10 [April 1865]
Summary
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4809 |
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
From William Duppa Crotch 10 April 1865
Summary
Supports Atlantis hypothesis.
Author: | William Duppa Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4811 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 April [1865]
Summary
W. J. Hooker is unwell.
Bentham wrote on Planchon ["The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 202–25],
T. Thomson on subspecies ["Species and subspecies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 226–42]
and Greene of York on ["The Linnean Society’s transactions", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 189–202].
JDH did the leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1865): 267–8, 291–2].
Delighted with CD’s calm opinion of Origin. Has same view of some of his own papers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4812 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1865]
Summary
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813 |
To John Murray 14 April [1865]
Summary
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (2005, item 20910) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray and Robert Francis Cooke 17 April 1865
Summary
CD has asked him to supervise drawings of pigeons and fowls [for Variation]. Sends estimates for drawings and engravings by artists who do such work for the Field.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | John Murray; Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 17 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 136–138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4815 |
From R. F. Cooke to W. B. Tegetmeier 18 April 1865
Summary
Concerning an illustration for CD’s book.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4815F |
From J. D. Hooker [19 April 1865]
Summary
Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.
Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.
Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.
W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4816 |
From Herbert Spencer 22 April 1865
Summary
Wonders whether CD might contribute, if possible, an occasional letter to the Reader to help in their effort to establish the journal.
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4817 |
From Eliza Meteyard 25 April 1865
Summary
Sends CD the first volume of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood [2 vols. (1865–6)].
Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4819 |
From George Busk 28 April 1865
Summary
Has heard from Hooker that CD is very ill and asking for suggestion of a doctor to consult. Recommends A. B. Garrod as specialist in gouty complaints.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 381 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4820 |
From L. C. or Margaret Susan Wedgwood to [Emma Darwin?] [May 1865]
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4823 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865]
Summary
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4825 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
To James Philip Mansel Weale 6 May [1865]
Summary
Sends advice on naturalist matters.
W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],
and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].
Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.
Mentions poor health.
Thanks for tracings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 6 May [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.308) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4828 |
To Friedrich Rolle 6 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
Date: | 6 May [1865] |
Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4829 |
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