To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
To B. D. Walsh 27 March [1865]
Summary
Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.
Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,
Rocky Mt. wingless insects,
willow hybrids,
galls,
and other subjects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 27 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4797 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 28 March [1865]
Summary
Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.
WBT’s excellent article on crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 28 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4798 |
To John Murray 31 March [1865]
Summary
Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.
Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 31 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4801 |
To E. P. Wright 3 April [1865]
Summary
Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.
Thanks for information about shrimps.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
Date: | 3 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4802F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 April [1865]
Summary
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4804 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 April [1865]
Summary
Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].
JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 262 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4805 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [7 April 1865]
Summary
Fowl MS has arrived safely.
Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.
Further instructions for Luke Wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [7 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4806 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [April 1865]
Summary
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4809 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1865]
Summary
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813 |
To John Murray 14 April [1865]
Summary
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 14 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (2005, item 20910) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865]
Summary
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4825 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
To James Philip Mansel Weale 6 May [1865]
Summary
Sends advice on naturalist matters.
W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],
and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].
Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.
Mentions poor health.
Thanks for tracings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 6 May [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.308) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4828 |
To Friedrich Rolle 6 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
Date: | 6 May [1865] |
Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4829 |
To B. J. Sulivan [9 May 1865]
Summary
Would rejoice to see BJS at Down, but explains that he can only spend short spells of time in his company if he comes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | [9 May 1865] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (January 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4831F |
To John Chapman 16 May [1865]
Summary
Asks JC to pay him a professional visit at Down to consider whether the ice treatment would apply to his case. Describes his sickness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Chapman |
Date: | 16 May [1865] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 42) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4834 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks for Catalogue.
Has had a bad month. Somewhat improved as a result of John Chapman’s ice-bag cures.
Asks THH to read MS on his hypothesis Pangenesis. THH only man whose judgment on it would be final with him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 May [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 214) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4837 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s willingness to read Pangenesis MS. Thinks some such view will have to be adopted but it overthrows, in an uncomfortable manner, ordinary development.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 May [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 217) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4841 |
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