From George Henslow [c. August 1867?]
Summary
Thanks CD for his interesting papers.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Aug 1867?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5336 |
From Edouard Bornet [before 20 August 1867]
Summary
Sends ten different forms of Draba and Jordan’s instructions on when to sow seeds.
Reports sterility of a cross of two varieties of Papaver.
Thanks CD for a memoir.
Author: | Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 Aug 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5592 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks WBT for proofs of his new book [Pigeons (1868)].
Hopes he still intends to try the experiment with dyed pigeons.
Was surprised to hear of B. P. Brent’s death.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5593 |
To John Murray 4 August [1867]
Summary
Asks whether JM is interested in publishing A. E. Brehm, Illustrirtes Thierleben [4 vols. (1864–7)], which has had immense sale on the continent.
Is making good progress with proofs [of Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 4 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 171–172) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5594 |
From Charles Lyell 4 August 1867
Summary
Comments on proof-sheets of Variation.
His revisions of Principles of geology, 10th ed.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 415–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5595 |
From William Bowman 5 August 1867
Summary
Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].
Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 267 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5596 |
From John Murray 5 August [1867]
Summary
He is unacquainted with Brehm’s work [Thierleben]. Asks that a volume be sent so he can form an opinion on publishing it.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 349 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5597 |
From Robert Swinhoe 5 August 1867
Summary
Will do his best to get observations on expression among the Chinese.
Reports observations on hedgehogs collecting fruit with their spines.
Discusses the domestic pig of Formosa, its wild ancestors, and its capacity to breed with other races.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5598 |
To John Murray 6 August [1867]
Summary
Sends the four volumes [of Brehm’s Thierleben] for Murray’s consideration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 6 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | S. J. Hessel (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5599 |
To Carl Vogt 7 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks for CV’s Mémoire sur les microcéphales [1867]. Curious how CD and CV have come to similar conclusions about atavism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Vogt |
Date: | 7 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms fr. 2188, ff. 302–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5600 |
To William Bowman 7 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks for reply to queries. Spectroscope an instance of unimagined glorious prospects of science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 10 (EH 88206062) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5601 |
From Seth Sutton 8 August 1867
Summary
Reports observations, as requested by CD, on expression in chimpanzees and orangs at Zoological Garden, London [see Expression, p. 95].
Author: | S Sutton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 322 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5602 |
To Asa Gray 8 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for sending W. M. Canby’s letter on Dionaea. Although already familiar with the facts concerning the secretions, the letter "fires me up to complete and publish on Drosera, Dionæa, etc."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | J. L. Gray ed. 1893, 2: 557 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5602A |
To B. D. Walsh 9 August [1867]
Summary
Is not sure he thinks so much of BDW’s argument in his last paper as of some others he advanced. Is BDW sure Lucanidae use jaws for holding female in copulation rather than for fighting other males?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 9 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5603 |
From Andrew Murray 12 August 1867
Summary
He is planning a new journal to replace Natural History Review. Unlike the old one, it would be confined to reviews and would include an index of works on travel.
Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5604 |
To Fritz Müller 15 August [1867]
Summary
Queries about expressions in crying monkeys.
Has received letter from Hermann Müller on orchid fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 15 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5605 |
From George Henslow 15 August 1867
Summary
Proposes writing a note for Linnean Society ["Note on the structure of Genista tinctoria", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 468], in part using information CD gave him at Down.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5606 |
From B. J. Sulivan 16 August [1867]
Summary
Discusses a rare shell found by BJS on the Beagle voyage, an account of which has just been written by Davidson [possibly in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 20 (1867): 81–3].
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 289 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5607 |
To Hermann Müller 16 August [1867]
Summary
Made aware by Asa Gray of error with respect to Cypripedium. Does not doubt it is self-fertilised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 16 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 429; Krause 1884, p. 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5608 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 August 1867
Summary
His opinion of two novels: Mary Barton and North and south [both by Mrs Gaskell].
Sends R. O. Cunningham’s letters.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 174–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5609 |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bornet, Édouard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bornet, Édouard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Bornet, Édouard | (2) |
Bowman, William | (2) |