To J. D. Hooker 10 February [1868]
Summary
Has heard that Variation sold the whole edition of 1500 copies in a week [see 5844]. Has done him a world of good. Pall Mall Gazette has review which pleased him exceedingly [see 5874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 50–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5856 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868
Summary
Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6432 |
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 |
From Julia Margaret Cameron [before 10 July 1868]
Summary
On the rental by the Darwins of a house at Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.
| Author: | Julia Margaret Pattle; Julia Margaret Cameron |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 10 July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6270 |
From John Tyndall 9 October 1868
Summary
Gustavus Hinrichs is also a [not highly regarded] correspondent of JT’s; he will put GH’s papers on the table at Royal Institution to ease CD’s conscience.
Dined with the Asa Grays at Hooker’s. Told Mrs Gray that CD’s ill health was a benefit because it caused him to ponder a great deal.
| Author: | John Tyndall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: C1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6414 |
To Frederick Bates 19 June [1868?]
Summary
"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
| Date: | 19 June [1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787A |
From A. R. Wallace 1 March 1868
Summary
Offers enclosure demonstrating that natural selection could produce sterility of hybrids.
More on Pangenesis and the inadequacy of H. Spencer’s approach.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B49–50, B53–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5966 |
From George Henry Lewes 2 March 1868
Summary
Is engaged on an article for Fortnightly Review on Variation ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses", n.s. 9: 353–73, 611–28; n.s. 10: 61–80, 492–509]. Asks CD some questions.
While he agrees with natural selection, he believes many "organic details" develop irrespective of advantage.
| Author: | George Henry Lewes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: D5–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5969 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, 15, and 17 February 1868 ([Lewes] 1868a). His essay review ‘Mr. Darwin’s hypotheses’ was published in four instalments in the Fortnightly Review on 1 April, 1 June, 1 July, and 1 November 1868 ( Lewes 1868b ). CD’s heavily annotated copy of Lewes 1868b is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. No reply to this letter …
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1868]
Summary
CD thought Watson’s article beastly in its criticisms of JDH. Watson’s criticism of CD was not new or important, but fair, so CD could honestly thank him, adding his regret at what was said about JDH.
Is sitting for Woolner bust.
Has read James Croll on alternation of glacial and warmer periods in north and south, which would remove JDH’s objections to cool period extending to equator.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 98–101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6476 |
From J. J. Weir [before 17] October 1868
Summary
Both sexes of Crossoptilon auritum (eared pheasant) obtained the red cheeks the first year.
Coloration of the linnet.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 17] Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A36, 53; DAR 84.1: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6421 |
From Alexander Wallace 14 March 1868
Summary
On proportion of sexes [of moths?] raised from larvae: AW does not select largest exclusively.
Account of lambing in 1864 after unusual drought.
| Author: | Alexander Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A26–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6011 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to J. B. Innes, 22 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD had expressed disbelief about a similar account of the transmutation of oats into wheat. CD discussed these cereal plants in Variation 1: 312–20, but did not mention any accounts of transmutation of one grain into another. It is not known which of CD’s sons was planning an experiment. CD had evidently met Arthur Gardiner Butler at the British Museum ; he referred to Butler’s observations on butterflies in notes dated 17 …
From J. D. Hooker 16 June 1868
Summary
Will get name of grass [see 6243] from Gen. William Munro.
Has heard from Charles Wheatstone that CD has Prussian Order of Merit. Rejoices because it is the only distinction worth a fig.
Went to Handel festival; heard Messiah.
Went to poor old N. B. Ward’s funeral.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 216–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6247 |
From William Ogle 2 September 1868
Summary
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
| Author: | William Ogle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6346 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to T. H. Farrer, 15 September [1868] and n. 10). A heavily annotated copy of Hildebrand 1866 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Ogle published a paper on Salvia the following year ( Ogle 1869 ); in the final paragraph, he mentioned CD’s reference to Hildebrand 1866 , and explained why he decided to publish further on Salvia. An annotated copy of Ogle 1869 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See also Correspondence vol. 17. …
To J. D. Hooker 3 April [1868]
Summary
Asks for [John?] Smith’s exact count of seeds of the crossed and self-fertilised Victoria water-lily. Similar question on Euryale seed and seedlings.
JDH’s coming [BAAS] Presidential Address.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6086 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 17 [August 1868] ). CD refers to Walter Bagehot’s article ‘The age of conflict’ ( Bagehot 1868 ). It was the second in a series of essays with the collective title ‘Physics and politics’ that appeared in the Fortnightly Review between 1867 and 1872 and that were then published as a book ( Bagehot 1872 ). Bagehot suggested ‘approximate laws’ of progress in human society and compared these to ‘natural selection’ in physical science (see Bagehot 1868 , p. 453). For Hooker’s own view on struggle in human society, see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Cameron, J. M. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lewes, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Bates, Frederick | (1) |
| Cameron, J. M. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
