To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
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- … pp. 205–6). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 and …
- … Botany ); see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 , and …
- … s first letter on climbing plants was the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … See the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , for the …
- … in this volume as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August and 10 October 1865] . …
- … Müller 1865b , p. 344, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
- … paper (see Müller 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October …
To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
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- … company (see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Lubbock 19 November [1864] ). CD …
- … highly (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Roland Trimen, 13 May 1864 ). …
- … Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] and [17 July 1865] , and the letter from T. H. Huxley, …
- … 12 January 1867 (Sullivan ed. 1984, p. 349). CD had sent Huxley his manuscript of his hypothesis of pangenesis, asking him whether it was suitable for inclusion in Variation (see letter …
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
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- … the crosses (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 [April 1864] and …
- … and n. 4, and Correspondence vol. 12, letters from W. E. Darwin, 14 April 1864 and 18 …
- … Climbing plants’ in August 1865 (see letters from Fritz Müller , 12 August 1865 and n. …
- … 11, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , and 31 August 1865 ; see also letter to …
To J. T. Moggridge 13 October [1865]
Summary
Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.
Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 13 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4914 |
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- … orchid). See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. T. Moggridge, 19 June [1864] and …
- … Moggridge 1864 ). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. T. Moggridge, 19 June [1864] …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to P. H. Gosse, 2 June [1863] and nn. 12 and 13). He …
- … letter from G. C. Oxenden, 8 July 1862 and n. 2). Owing to chronic ill health, Moggridge spent most winters at Mentone (now Menton), a town on the French Riviera near the Italian border ( R. Desmond 1994 ). The reference is to ‘Climbing plants’ , published in a double issue of the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) on 12 …
From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Sends a paper ["Über das Holz einiger um Desterro wachsender Kletterpflanzen", Botanische Zeitung 24 (1866): 57–60, 65–9].
Believes species of sponge with different mineral spiculae are descended from a form with organic spiculae.
Reports observations on motions of Linum stalks following the sun.
Regards Anelasma as a connecting form between cirripedes and Rhizocephala.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 74–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912A |
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- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a translation of …
- … vol. 13, Appendix I. See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a …
- … Fritz Müller, 9 December [1865] ). In a letter of 12 December 1865, Müller asked Schultze …
- … in a missing section of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 ; see, however, the …
- … This article is reproduced as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and …
- … 10 October 1865] ; see also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 11. Rosa …
- … 12. CD had offered Müller a copy of the German translation of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862) in his letter …
From J. T. Moggridge 14 October [1865]
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.2: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4915 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
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- … excluded. See also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] …
- … Library–Down (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Patrick Matthew, 6 June 1864 and …
- … to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] , n. 12, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September …
- … see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] ). In Origin , …
- … History , see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , n. 12. Most of CD’s …
- … 12 s. , one on 31 October 1865 and the other on 28 November 1865. Daniel Oliver informed CD that Hooker was expected to return to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 26 October 1865; see letter …
From Alfred Newton 27 October 1865
Summary
Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4925 |
From Alfred Newton 30 October 1865
Summary
CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4927 |
From Hermann Kindt 17 October 1865
Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4917 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 October [1865]
Summary
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4907 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 60 (EH 88206043) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4643 |
From Daniel Oliver 23 October 1865
Summary
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4922 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 October [1865]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in S. Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9] to be refereed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4920 |
From Robert Swinhoe [before 1 October 1865?]
Summary
Reports that dogs caught in the act of sodomy have been attacked by their fellows, who mutilate the offender’s genitals.
Gives a description of the nature and occurrence of the wild Bos of Formosa.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Oct 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4727 |
From Charles Shaw 3 October 1865
Summary
Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.
Author: | Charles Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4908 |
From Edward Cresy 18 October 1865
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4918 |
To W. D. Fox 25–6 October [1865]
Summary
Bad health during last six months has prevented scientific work.
News of family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 25–6 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 146) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4924 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
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Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Newton, Alfred | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Shaw, Charles | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …