To Cassell, Petter & Galpin [August–December 1868]
Summary
CD arranges for copies of some blocks [for use in Descent] from Brehm’s [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cassell, Petter, & Galpin |
Date: | [Aug–Dec 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6300 |
From Edward Blyth 3 August 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6301 |
From M. J. S. Schultze 4 August 1868
Author: | Max Johann Sigismund Schultze |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6302 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868
Summary
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6303 |
To M. J. S. Schultze [after 4 August 1868]
Summary
Expresses gratitude for the distinguished honour conferred upon him by the University of Bonn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Max Johann Sigismund Schultze |
Date: | [after 4 Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6304 |
From Ludwig Molendo and Alexander Walther 5 August 1868
Summary
Send their work [Die Laubmoose Oberfrankens (1868)].
Author: | Ludwig Molendo; Alexander Wilhelm Hannibal Franz (Alexander) Walther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6305 |
From Richard Bowdler Sharpe 5 August 1868
Summary
Is writing to Australia to answer CD’s questions about resemblance of tail-feathers of young and mature female kingfishers. [See Descent 2: 188.]
Author: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 98–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6306 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 August 1868
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6307 |
To G. H. Lewes 7 August [1868]
Summary
Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.
Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".
Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | 7 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 42; Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6308 |
From G. H. Lewes 8 August 1868
Summary
Gratified by CD’s approval of his articles, which the public has not much liked.
Clarifies the obscure sentence CD criticised – forms having a different genesis can be similar.
Calls CD’s attention to Kovalevsky’s memoir on Amphioxus [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 (1868) no.4]. K’s views are all in favour of CD’s and against GHL’s.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6309 |
From George Cupples 10 August 1868
Summary
Thanks for photograph.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6310 |
From Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs [before 13 August 1868]
Summary
Sends work proving all elements formed of one substance: "Pantogen". Feels affinity with CD. His work will cause as great a stir. Has already been preached against. Asks CD for a note as a token of his sympathy.
Author: | Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 13 Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6311 |
To Charles Alexander Johns 13 August [1868?]
Summary
CD not a good enough botanist to form a judgment of specimen. Does not understand whether CAJ supposes the variety to be a result of hybridism or of the present very hot summer, which CD cannot doubt will have an effect on some British plants in their struggle for life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | C. A Johns |
Date: | 13 Aug [1868?] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A27 p. 60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6312 |
To G. D. Hinrichs 13 August 1868
Summary
Acknowledges GH’s letter and the lecture on "Faith and science".
Cannot form a judgment on his chemical theory, but if GH establishes his case it will be a magnificent discovery.
"Faith and science" contained many ideas new to CD. Hooker, too, has read it with interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs |
Date: | 13 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois History and Lincoln Collections (Hinrichs Papers, IHLC MS 712, Box 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6313 |
From Robert Brough Smyth 13 August 1868
Summary
Relates some observations on expression among Australian aboriginals and encloses answers to CD’s queries from other observers. [These include letters and observations from: J. A. Hagenauer, 28 May 1868; Archibald Grahame Lang, 17 June 1868; H. B. Lane, 24 June 1868; Templeton Bunnett, 25 June 1868; J. Bulmer (1868). (See introduction to Expression.)]
Author: | Robert Brough Smyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 205–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6314 |
From J. V. Carus 14 August 1868
Summary
Asks whether it would be convenient if he came to Down. JVC would be sorry to leave England without seeing and thanking CD.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6315 |
To Asa Gray 15 August [1868]
Summary
AG’s coming visit to England.
Hooker’s Presidency of BAAS.
A month at the Isle of Wight has done almost nothing for CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (98) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6316 |
To J. V. Carus 16 August [1868]
Summary
Regrets having missed JVC’s visit. CD’s health is poor. He hopes JVC will come to Down after BAAS meeting.
Has heard second part [of Variation] is out in German. Thanks JVC for his great care in making translation accurate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 16 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 25–26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6317 |
From A. R. Wallace 16 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of sterility, and its relation to natural selection.
George Bentham’s support of Darwinism.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6318 |
To Fritz Müller 17 August 1868
Summary
FM’s additions for English edition [1869] of Für Darwin.
Dimorphic plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6320 |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Hinrichs, G. D. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Bruce, H. A. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Hinrichs, G. D. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |