To William Turner 1 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 1 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5386 |
From W. D. Fox 1 February [1867]
Summary
Wants to know whether Variation is published and how the other book [CD’s proposed volume on variation in nature] is going.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5388 |
From Fritz Müller 2 February 1867
Summary
Thanks for CD’s letter inquiring about capsules produced by the Maxillaria with larger pods [see 5331]. Gives descriptions of Maxillaria and of the other Vandeae.
Describes Oncidium flexuosum.
Tells of botanical results of recent excursion to the German colony Theresopolis. Brought home fine collection of living orchids.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 109–11; DAR 70: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5389A |
From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1867
Summary
Has declined Presidency of BAAS.
Relation of insular and continental genera will always be difficult problem.
On Providence and the "continuity theory".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 138–142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5390 |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 6 February 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31] and "Climbing plants" sent to Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. Comments on Lythrum.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5391 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
To Fritz Müller 7 February [1867]
Summary
CD’s Variation is in printer’s hands.
Orchid self-sterility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 7 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5393 |
From William Henry Kinnaird Gibbons 7 February 1867
Author: | W. H. S Gibbons |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5394 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
From William Turner 8 February 1867
Author: | William Turner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B152–3c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5396 |
From J. V. Carus 11 February 1867
Summary
Sends CD an English translation of his preface to the revised German edition of Origin and asks his opinion of it.
Asks CD where he might get a specimen of Eozoon.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 55, 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5397 |
To William Turner 11 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks WT for information.
Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 11 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5398 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 February 1867
Summary
Relieved that CD approves his declining the Presidency of BAAS. The BAAS and the role of scientific men in it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 143–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5399 |
From John Lubbock 12 February 1867
Summary
H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5400 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [13–16 February 1867]
Summary
Asks for specimen [of Eozoon] for J. V. Carus of Leipzig.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [13–16 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Sotheby Parke Bernet, London (dealers) (18 June 1979) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5402 |
To J. V. Carus 17 February [1867]
Summary
CD thinks JVC’s preface is fair to Bronn. Regrets JVC has not added notes of his own, but, having dropped Bronn’s appendix, it is perhaps best to leave the text without comment. Rejoices that the German public can now judge the Origin fairly.
Has written to W. B. Carpenter for a specimen of Eozoon to send to JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 6–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5403 |
From Edward Blyth 19 February 1867
Summary
Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]
discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,
abnormal habits shown by birds,
behaviour of cuckoos,
and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.
Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.
[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5405 |
To Edward Blyth [18 February 1867]
Summary
Asks to meet EB for a walk in the Zoological Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [18 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5406 |
To Edward Blyth [19 February 1867]
Summary
Is so unwell he must cancel appointment to meet at Zoological Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [19 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5407 |
To J. P. M. Weale 22 February [1867]
Summary
Discusses JPMW’s paper on Bonatea [see 5411].
Mentions Robert Brown’s views on pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.326) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5409 |
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Barber, M. E. | (1) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Bowker, M. E. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gibbons, W. H. S. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Trübner & Co. | (1) |
Turner, William | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Turner, William | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Blyth, Edward | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Turner, William | (3) |