From John Lubbock 30 January 1868
Summary
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5818 |
From J. B. Innes 30 January 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5819 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 January 1868]
Summary
Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.
Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.
Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5820 |
From Thomas Rivers 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5821 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 31 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5822 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5823 |
From Henry Johnson 31 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge
and CD’s world-wide reputation.
Author: | Henry Johnson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824 |
From Daniel Oliver [before February 1868]
Summary
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824F |
From C. S. Bate [17 February 1868]
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A61–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5826 |
From J. Daly [before 9 February 1868]
Summary
Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].
Author: | J Daly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5827 |
To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
From Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood to Emma Darwin [30 March – 12 April 1868]
Summary
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5830 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |
From William Bowman 1 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5832 |
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1868
Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5833 |
To J. V. Carus 1 February [1868]
Summary
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834 |
To William Lonsdale 1 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, p. 437 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834A |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
From Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff 3 February 1868
Summary
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Author: | Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5836 |
From W. D. Fox 3 February [1868]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5837 |
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Dallas, W. S. | (19) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (32) |
Weir, J. J. | (15) |
Wallace, A. R. | (14) |
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Weir, J. J. | (37) |
Wallace, A. R. | (31) |
Blyth, Edward | (23) |