To ? 30 October [1869 or 1870]
Summary
Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria
and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 30 Oct [1869-70] |
Classmark: | King Edward VI High School, Stafford |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6961A |
To Francis Henry Salvin? 31 October 1869
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6962 |
To Scientific Opinion [before 20 October 1869]
Summary
Replies to F. Delpino’s criticisms of Pangenesis [Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8], especially concerning the difficulty of explaining the regrowth of amputated organs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Scientific Opinion |
Date: | [before 20 Oct 1869] |
Classmark: | Scientific Opinion 2 (1869): 426. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6442 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 1 October [1869]
Summary
Chickens have arrived safely.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 1 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6921 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 October [1869]
Summary
V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 275) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6922 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1869]
Summary
Sends letter from Candolle [6915] proposing an experiment with seeds that seems excellent. CD has little time and strength but will do his best. If the staff at Kew could do it, it would be wisest to hand the whole lot over to JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6923 |
To Ernst Haeckel 3 October [1869]
Summary
Mentions views of Sars on species.
EH’s work on Siphonophora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6924 |
To James Orton 7 October [1869]
Summary
Has forwarded the horse’s tooth, sent by JO, to Huxley, who may be able to identify it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Orton |
Date: | 7 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6925 |
To T. Thompson 9 October 1869
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | T. Thompson |
Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6927 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 October 1869
Summary
Is glad that JDH is willing to try Candolle’s experiment [see 6915]. Encloses all the seeds except a few taken from the Moscow and Palermo packets.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6932 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 11 October 1869
Summary
Thanks AdeC for his interesting letter [6915]. The experiment strikes CD as a very valuable one. CD has forwarded the letter to Hooker, who is glad to make the trial. CD will have many experiments in progress next spring but he will open the packet of seeds and if they are numerous, will try a few himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 11 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6933 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 October 1869
Summary
Delighted with THH’s review [in Academy (1869)] of Haeckel’s [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868],
but groans about THH’s view of rudimentary organs. Cites Origin and Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6936 |
To Federico Delpino 14 October 1869
Summary
Cautions FD about fluid in labellum of Coryanthes.
T. H. Farrer is enthusiastic about FD’s papers.
Believes humming-birds fertilise many American flowers.
Mentions his reply to FD’s criticisms ["Pangenesis: Mr Darwin’s reply to Professor Delpino", Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 426; Collected papers 2: 158–60].
Suggests that FD study fertilisation of Gramineae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6938 |
To J. B. Innes 18 October 1869
Summary
CD gets so many foolish letters from foolish people he has little heart to write to friends.
Gives Down news.
R. H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator, is a clever man.
CD has been much abused, praised, and chaffed by newspapers lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6942 |
To A. R. Wallace 21 October 1869
Summary
Anticipates that all their differences are fated to find expression in projected book on man.
Offers his early MS with useful references related to the distribution of animals. Hopes ARW’s book will not be "little".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 21 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 189–90); Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6951 |
To J. V. Carus 22 October [1869]
Summary
His book [Descent] will not be ready for a year because of his health and the laboriousness of work on sexual selection. Has deferred arrangements for German translation, but would feel secure with JVC. Carl Vogt has offered to translate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 22 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 43–44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6954 |
To J. J. Moulinié 23 October [1869]
Summary
Would be delighted to have JJM translate new book [Descent].
Can CD legally bring out new edition of Origin in France with new publisher? Has been ill-used by V. Masson and C. Royer. Wants edition without Royer’s preface.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 23 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 11–12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6955 |
To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 27 October 1869
Summary
Thanks for Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzengestalt von Klima und Boden (Kerner 1869).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anton Kerner von Marilaun |
Date: | 27 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6957F |
To J. V. Carus [30 October 1869]
Summary
Has received a letter from Carl Vogt, expressing his readiness to translate Descent at the request of the publisher Franz Anton Ricker
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | [30 Oct 1869] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6958F |
To Carl Vogt 30 October 1869
Summary
Thanks for proposal about translation [of Descent]. Will write to J. V. Carus to make agreement with publisher.
Hopes JVC’s holding CD’s views only secondary cause of loss of professorship.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Vogt |
Date: | 30 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 2188, ff. 298–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6959 |
letter | (23) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Kerner von Marilaun, Anton | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Orton, James | (1) |
Scientific Opinion | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Thompson, T. | (1) |
Vogt, Carl | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |