From J. D. Hooker 26 [and 27] March 1867
Summary
Will be glad to have seeds of plants and CD’s climbing plant, which he has no doubt is Siphocampylus.
Anxious about his baby [Reginald Hooker].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 and 27 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5461 |
To E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 27 March [1867]
Summary
Does not care which photograph is engraved. Hopes to get specimens of Eozoon canadense for J. V. Carus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | 27 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5461F |
From Asa Gray 26 March 1867
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5462 |
To John Lubbock 26 March [1867]
Summary
Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 65 (EH 88206509) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5463 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 26 March [1867]
Summary
Answers VOK’s questions regarding the size of forthcoming Variation and gives his consent to a translation.
But if Origin has not yet been translated into Russian, CD thinks it would be a better book to undertake.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5464 |
From Andrew Smith 26 March 1867
Summary
On Hottentot ideas of beauty in women; their preference for women with large posteriors. [See Descent 2: 345–6.]
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A103–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5465 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 27 [March 1867]
Summary
Thanks WED for a present.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].
Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 27 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5466 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 28 March 1867
Summary
Forwards some plant specimens to CD for his comments.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 34–5, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 April 1867, p. 350. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5467 |
To M. T. Masters [28 March – 5 April 1867]
Summary
Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5468 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [March 1867]
Summary
Anxious for news about baby.
Will remember to save all foreign plants for JDH when he has finished experimenting with them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5469 |
To William Ogle 29 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks WO for information on inheritance of deficient phalanges [Variation 2:73] and for interesting case of the occurrence of anomalous fingers and teeth in twins[Variation 2: 253].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 29 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 1 (EH 88205899) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5470 |
To Hermann Müller 29 March [1867]
Summary
Has learned that Fritz Müller is HM’s brother.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 29 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 428 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5471 |
From John Lubbock 29 March 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for information.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5472 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 29 March 1867
Summary
Answers CD’s queries about polygamous birds. Does not think appearance of cock makes any difference to female. Dyeing the male has no effect on female.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 30–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5473 |
From H. W. Bates 29 March 1867
Summary
Working on sexual differences in collection of horned beetles and will send CD results.
Answers CD’s questions [sent on behalf of Miss Tollet of Betley Hall, Staffs.] on mimicry – how it helps prevent extinction, the modifications occurring with a change of habitat until mimicry occurred.
Also gives some cases of sexual differences.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 95 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5474 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 30 March [1867]
Summary
Believes beauty of male bird important for attracting mate in wild. Will be interested to hear how a dyed male pigeon is received by the hens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 30 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5475 |
From C. W. Nägeli 31 March 1867
Summary
Summarises his 12-page letter in which he responds to CD’s criticisms of his theory of ‘perfectibility’.
Author: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | On permanent loan to KULTURAMA Zurich (Inv. 5109_L) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5475F |
To H. W. Bates 30 March [1867]
Summary
Would like tabulation of horned beetles if not too troublesome, but would easily settle for general remarks.
On the subject of other species mocking Heliconidae, asks whether full-coloured ones were mocked. Expresses full belief in HWB’s theory.
Encloses a copy of A. R. Wallace’s letter to the Field requesting observations on which caterpillars birds devour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 30 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5476 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 March 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5477 |
From Joseph Trimble Rothrock to Asa Gray 31 March 1867
Summary
Answers to CD’s questions on expressions among the Atnah and Espyox Indians of Nass River [see Expression, pp. 22, 232, 252, 260].
Discusses the debate in America over the relationship among Indian tribes. JTR does not believe Indians are all of one race; they are as varied as Europeans.
[Forwarded to CD by Asa Gray.]
Author: | Joseph Trimble Rothrock |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5478 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Clarke, Benjamin | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (61) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Darwin, E. A. | (3) |