To Ernst Dieffenbach 11 June [1844]
Summary
About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 11 June [1844] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-757 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 25 January 1844
Summary
Delighted to be able to contribute Infusoria to ED’s "great countryman Ehrenberg". Includes a list of eight substances from his collection described in detail, which Ehrenberg might find useful in his researches.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 25 Jan 1844 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-732 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 6 April 1845
Summary
With thanks for ED’s publication. "I consider your having made my work known in Germany a full & ample recompense to such exertions as I made during our Voyage".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1845 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-852 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 6 April [1846]
Summary
On geological works of Tschudi and Buch.
"My health keeps indifferent & I do not suppose I shall ever be a strong man again: everything fatigues me, & I can work but little at my writing: this summer, however, I shall get out my geology of S. America".
"I found Bronn’s Geschichte, which you recommended me, very useful, for references to facts on variation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1846] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-972 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 14 March 1844
Summary
[With the notation "If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof. Liebig" on the address.] "I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German Geological Journal".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1844 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-741 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 16 December 1843
Summary
"You will have been sorry to have seen in the newspapers, the disturbances & fightings with the New Zealanders. – I have lately been much interested in reading your chapters on the slow decrease in numbers … of these poor people. The case appears to me very curious, especially as the decrease has commenced or continued since the introduction of the potato – the relation between the amount of population & of food is hence inverted. It would have been a case for the great Malthus to have reflected on".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-725 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 15 August [1843]
Summary
CD sends off his notes [corrections and additions to his Journal of researches] which he hopes ED will introduce [in German translation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1843] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-689 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach [before 9 July 1845]
Summary
"It is evident that you have not time now to pay me a visit, & indeed as Mrs Darwin is in daily expectation of her confinement I could hardly have asked you … When I saw your name & that of many other naturalists at Cambridge, I wished much to have been there; but my strength so often fails me, that I expected more mortification than pleasure …
I should have liked to have heard the Crater-of-Elevation discussion; after having read both sides, I cannot subscribe to that view; but I think there remains something unexplained about those many vast circular volcanic ruins …
I presume it is very unprobable [sic] that there will ever be a second German Edition of my Journal … I have largely condensed, corrected & added to the Second English Edition, & I am sure have considerably improved & popularised it".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | [before 9 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-888 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 2 October 1843
Summary
On ED’s planned edition [German] of CD’s Journal of researches.
Informs him of his forthcoming volume, Volcanic islands.
"I am well acquainted with your paper on Chatham Island ["An account of the Chatham Islands", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 11: 195–215], & … those passages on the very curious fact of the apparent specific differences of the birds there & at New Zealand".
Thanks ED for recognition of his "small labours in Natural History… . praise from men, like yourself, is the only, though quite sufficient, reward I ever expect or wish to obtain for my works. – I have lately had the extreme satisfaction of hearing that Hooker speaks highly of the accuracy … of my statements". Refers to Humboldt and Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1843 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-698 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 9 February [1847]
Summary
On the results of Robert Bunsen’s journey to Iceland, which he compares in detail with his own research.
"I have for the present given up Geology, & am hard at work at pure Zoology & am dissecting various genera of cirripedes, & am extremely interested in the subject." "I always, however, keep on reading & observing on my favourite work on Variation or on Species, & shall in a year’s time or so, commence & get my notes in order."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1847] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1059 |
To Michael Foster 16 April 1871
Summary
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689G |
To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1873]
Summary
Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.
Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 259–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8779 |
To John Hutton Balfour 15 September [1864]
Summary
Inquires which nurserymen near Edinburgh cultivate coloured primroses and cowslips. Wants to repeat John Scott’s remarkable experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4613 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
To Jeffries Wyman 3 December [1860]
Summary
"You cannot tell how much your paper on Gestation has interested me" ["On some unusual modes of gestation in batrachians and fishes", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 27 (1859): 5–13].
Robert McDonnell has made curious discoveries on electrical organs of rays.
Is giving JW’s hog case in corrected ed. [3d] of Origin.
Would like account of tip of tail of young rattlesnake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 3 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3005 |
To John Murray 9 June 1880
Summary
Asks JM to provide Quarterly Journal of Science with five woodcuts from Climbing plants to illustrate an article, based on that work, by Francis Darwin [see 12462].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 9 June 1880 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 368–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12625 |
To Nature 13 November [1869]
Summary
Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.
Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Nature 1 (1869): 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6987 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 [December 1862]
Summary
CD interested in hybrid sterility and encloses his preliminary MS. Outlines experiments to test for existence of sterility in breeds of poultry and pigeons.
Experiments on dimorphism have led him to change in part his opinion as given in Origin, and he is now asking pigeon and poultry fanciers for any examples of special selective sterility [i.e., a particular pair are sterile when crossed, but each individual is fertile with others] and hopes to investigate its inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 27 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3877 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 7 July 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11) and 13 March 1865, Calendar no. 4785). CD …
- … 7 July 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11) and 13 March 1865, Calendar no. 4785). He …
- … 13 March 1865 , Calendar no. 4785). This reference has not been found in CD’s Experiment book (DAR 157a), but see n. 7, below. CD sent £5 5 s. to cover the cost of the experiments in his letter to Tegetmeier of 9 July [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
To J. D. Hooker 13 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.
Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated
and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.
Is working on Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 249a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4612 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and nn. 11, 13, and 14. See enclosure to the letter to …
- … 11, Rheinberger 1983 , Olby 1985 , pp. 47–53, and J. Harvey 1997a . See also Correspondence vol. 13, …
- … 11, Appendix V, for CD’s views on the importance and reliability of Gärtner’s work. The Ray Society was established in 1844 with the object of publishing important works of natural history that were unlikely to prove commercially profitable ( Curle 1954 , p. 2). Scott 1864a . See also letter to Asa Gray, 13 …
To W. E. Darwin 14 May [1864]
Summary
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 14 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4495 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … in the long-styled form (see nn. 8, 11, 13, and 14, below, and Forms of flowers , pp. …
- … 13, below). CD crossed the different forms of Pulmonaria angustifolia in 1864 and 1865; for CD’s experimental notes on these crosses, see DAR 110: A44–55; for his published results, see Forms of flowers , pp. 107–10. In 1863, CD had evidently speculated on whether Pulmonaria angustifolia might represent a transition from heterostyly to what he later called ‘gyno-dioecism’, in which species include hermaphrodite and female individuals on different plants; he had already observed gyno-dioecious forms in Thymus and Echium (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
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