From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 8 May [1865]
Summary
Reports on the funeral of Robert FitzRoy.
His own health has deteriorated and he must give up his work.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4831 |
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 17 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4833 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 17 May [1865]
Summary
Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.
Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4835 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
From B. D. Walsh 29 May 1865
Summary
Discusses several subjects, including examples of "Unity of coloration",
the origin of gall-producing poison,
Wagner’s theory of viviparous larvae,
and stridulation in insects.
Sends a reference supporting CD’s statement in Origin that flies check propagation of horses and cattle.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 179, 179a; DAR 207: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4839 |
From William Allport Leighton 29 May 1865
Summary
Describes the floral structure of the lupin and gives his observations on its pollination by bees.
Author: | William Allport Leighton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4840 |
From Edward Cresy 30 May 1865
Summary
Impressed by Fritz Müller’s argument for natural selection in air-breathing apparatus of crustaceans ["The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 15 (1865): 410–16].
Plans to visit CD.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4842 |
From Charles Kingsley 30 May 1865
Summary
Requests CD’s photograph.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4843 |
From B. J. Sulivan 31 May [1865]
Summary
Would like to call on CD for an hour or so before leaving London to settle in Bournemouth.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 June 1865
Summary
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4845 |
From George Maw 1 June 1865
Summary
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4847 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
From Charles Kingsley 10 June 1865
Summary
Thanks for CD’s photograph.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4857 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 17 June 1865]
Summary
Recommends J. W. Kayes’ book [History of the Sepoy War, vol. 1 (1864)].
Wife improving.
Glad CD liked Huxley’s letter.
Not an admirer of Kingsley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4859 |
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Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Henslow, F. H. | (6) |
Hooker, F. H. | (6) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (6) |