From J. S. Bowerbank [4 November 1867]
Summary
Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
Author: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Nov 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13780 |
From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1867–72?] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.4: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13856 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 September [1867]
Summary
Suggests investments for CD;
discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;
mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4609F |
From John William Salter 4 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.
Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.
Author: | John William Salter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4969 |
From John Brodie Innes 1 September [1867]
Summary
Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5205 |
From George Henslow [c. August 1867?]
Summary
Thanks CD for his interesting papers.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Aug 1867?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5336 |
From Edward Blyth [2–30 March 1867]
Summary
Discussion of origin of domestic sheep races. Some comments on the yak and the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2–30 Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5337 |
From E. A. Darwin 22 [March 1867]
Summary
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5342 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 7 January 1867]
Summary
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 134a–d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343 |
From Fritz Müller 1 January 1867
Summary
Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.
Has been examining Catasetum.
Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.
Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 104–9; DAR 157a: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5344A |
From John Murray 2 January [1867]
Summary
William Clowes [printer for J. Murray] estimates that Variation will come to a first volume of 648 pages and a second volume of 624 pages – which is too much for volumes the same size as Origin. Murray proposes a larger size.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 342 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5345 |
From John Murray 9 January [1867]
Summary
CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.
Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5354 |
From James Philip Mansel Weale 9 January 1867
Summary
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5355 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 11 January 1867
Summary
Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].
BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5357 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 131–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5358 |
From Thomas Belt 12 January 1867
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 181–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5359 |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 14 January 1867
Summary
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5360 |
From John Lubbock 16 January 1867
Summary
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5366 |
From E. A. Darwin 17 [July 1867]
Summary
Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [July 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5369 |
From Julius Victor Carus 18 January 1867
Summary
Asks CD questions relating to the revised translation of Origin.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5370 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (25) |
Murray, John (b) | (11) |
Carus, J. V. | (10) |
Wallace, A. R. | (8) |
Dallas, W. S. | (7) |