To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
From Henry Denny 23 January 1865
Summary
Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].
Author: | Henry Denny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B150–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4753 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 January 1865]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4754 |
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 Henry Walter Bates 28 January 1865
Summary
Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.
HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].
He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756 |
To Henry Denny 28 January [1865]
Summary
Returns [Andrew] Murray’s paper;
especially values HD’s note that the same species of lice infect the different varieties of fowl, pigeon, and dog. Further queries about the relationship of the same species of pediculi to different domestic varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 28 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756F |
To A. R. Wallace 29 January [1865]
Summary
Commends ARW’s papers on parrots
and on the theory of geographical distribution [see 4750].
Wild pigs in Aru Islands must have been introduced and later ran wild. Does ARW have an opinion on the subject?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 29 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4757 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 30 January [1865]
Summary
Orders that one of CD’s Porto Santo rabbits be killed and sent to him.
Asks whether ADB has got young from mating these with females of other breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 30 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Joseph Bradley Murray Collection (MS 363) Box 1, folder 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4758 |
From A. R. Wallace 31 January [1865]
Summary
Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.
Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4759 |
To A. R. Wallace 1 February [1865]
Summary
Exchange of photographs.
Aru pigs present perplexing case, whether wild or domesticated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4760 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 February [1865]
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.
His own health has been especially bad this last week.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4762 |
To [Robertson Munro?] 3 February [1865 or 1866?]
Summary
Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.
Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robertson Munro |
Date: | 3 Feb [1865-6] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4763 |
To Ray Society [14–18 January 1865]
Summary
"Read a letter from Mr Darwin expressing his regret that the state of his health would not permit of his writing an Introductory Chapter to the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ray Society |
Date: | [14–18 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 107r: Minute 1146, 3d February 1865) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4764 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1865
Summary
Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.
CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765 |
To Max Ernst Wichura 3 February [1865]
Summary
He has finished MEW’s work on hybrid willows [Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency of hybrid willows is new to CD, and he finds the explanation of their numbers in certain locations ingenious.
Comments on the criticism of Gärtner’s view of reversion
and the differences between MEW and Naudin.
CD now has doubts regarding his own view that hybrids are sterile from not being perfectly accommodated to their conditions of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Max Ernst Wichura |
Date: | 3 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Autographia (dealers) (1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765A |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 February 1865
Summary
MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4766 |
To Richard Kippist 8 February 1865
Summary
Requests all parts of Transactions due him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 8 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4767 |
To A. D. Bartlett 9 February [1865]
Summary
Inquires about body of Porto Santo rabbit which has not arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4768 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
From August Schleicher 9 February 1865
Summary
Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];
announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.
Author: | August Schleicher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4770 |
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