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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [August 1868]
Summary
Enjoyed JDH’s visit.
Mrs Cameron’s photograph of JDH is grand.
Has heard J. V. Carus will be at Norwich. Suggests JDH mention that Origin was translated by two distinguished naturalists, H. G. Bronn and Carus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6321 |
To Ernesto Susanni 18 August [1868]
Summary
Hopes to find the article by Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere (Mamiani della Rovere 1868) on his return home.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carlo Ernesto (Ernesto) Susanni |
Date: | 18 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | Lion Heart (dealer) (1998) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6321F |
To A. R. Wallace 19 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 19 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6322 |
To Louis Agassiz 19 August 1868
Summary
Thanks LA for information on sexual differences in the coloration of Amazonian fish. CD was anxious to know how the sexes differed because they are unusual in that the male has the largest share in looking after ova and young.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 19 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 278) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6323 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 August 1868
Summary
Asks JDH to obtain from Sven Nilsson information on whether, in reindeer species in which both sexes are horned, the horns are first developed earlier or later than in species in which males alone have horns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6324 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 August [1868]
Summary
Pleased at success of JDH’s address. Has read several press reports.
Spectator pitches into JDH about theology ["Dr Hooker on the evidences", 22 Aug 1868, pp. 986–7].
Feels JDH has "immensely advanced the belief in evolution of species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 85–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6327 |
To Henry Austin Bruce 24 August [1868?]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for information. CD does not care much for more cases of striped asses,
but is pleased at the interesting case of the affectionate jackal that licks like a domestic dog.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare |
Date: | 24 Aug [1868?] |
Classmark: | Sir Brooke Boothby (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6330 |
To T. C. Eyton 25 August [1868]
Summary
Thanks TCE for copy of his book [Osteologia avium (1867)].
Recalls visits to Eyton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 25 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.353) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6331 |
To Eduard Koch 27 August 1868
Summary
Would like to see reviews of book [Variation].
Health has lately been indifferent.
Cannot at present pledge to give [EK?] translation rights to next book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Koch |
Date: | 27 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | Interlibrium (dealers) (Catalogue 276) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6332 |
To J. J. Moulinié 29 August [1868]
Summary
Hopes JJM can visit tomorrow and stay the night.
Would like to ask Carl Vogt if he is still in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 29 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 1557, ff. 213–14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6332F |
letter | (18) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Bruce, H. A. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hinrichs, G. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Johns, C. A. | (1) |
Koch, Eduard | (1) |
Lewes, G. H. | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Schultze, M. J. S. | (1) |
Susanni, Ernesto | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Bruce, H. A. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |