To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
Summary
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
To Robert Caspary 4 March 1866
Summary
Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5026 |
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
To Robert McLachlan 23 March [1866]
Summary
Thanks for the paper on Sterrha (McLachlan 1865).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Raab Collection (dealer) (June 2014) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5038F |
To Albert Müller 28 March [1866]
Summary
Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albert Müller |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5040 |
To Richard Kippist 31 March [1866]
Summary
Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5042 |
To Thomas Gold Appleton 2 March [1866]
Summary
The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | Boston Public Library Rare Books and Print Departments–Courtesy of the Trustees |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5427 |
| letter | (7) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Müller, Albert | (1) |
