To T. H. Huxley [7 December 1880]
Summary
Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [7 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 355) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12893 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
From W. H. Flower 9 May 1863
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4149 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Flower of 13 April [1863] , CD asked him to send a photograph of the niata skull that he had presented to the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1840; Flower was curator of the museum. CD had been asked for the photograph by Armand de Quatrefages (see letter from Armand de Quatrefages, [28 March –] 11 …
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4852 |
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
From W. H. Flower 15 April 1863
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4101 |
To John Murray 9 May [1874]
Summary
Recommends that JM consider publishing a new edition of J. F. McLennan’s Primitive marriage [1865]. CD considers it very valuable and not too indelicate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 May [1874] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 347–347A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9451 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 [April 1864]
Summary
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 [Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4468 |
From Charles Mostyn Owen 29 May 1881
Author: | Charles Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 202–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13182 |
To Charles Lyell 7 February [1866]
Summary
Discussion of Mrs Agassiz’s letter [to Mary Lyell, forwarded to CD] regarding S. American glacial action,
with comments on Bunbury’s letter on temperate plants.
Refers to opinions of Agassiz, David Forbes, Hooker, and CD on glacial period and glaciers.
Wishes he had published a long chapter on glacial period [Natural selection, pp. 535–66] written ten years ago.
Tells of death of his sister, Catherine, and other family matters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.312) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4999 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 13, Supplement, letter to David Forbes, 11 December [1860] and n. 8, …
- … 13, above. Chapters 11 and 12 of Origin , pp. 346–410, were devoted to geographical distribution. In chapter 11, CD considered dispersal during the glacial period and mentioned the occurrence on mountains in Abyssinia of species otherwise found in Europe or the Cape of Good Hope (now part of the Republic of South Africa) ( Origin , p. 375). CD refers to Variation. On CD’s health and his resumption of work on Variation , see the letter …
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1864]
Summary
CD apologises for having asked JDH to help him with Scott and now seeks advice on how to break the news.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4455 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1869
Summary
Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.
Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, et al.) are agreed on Lyell.
Everyone is disappointed with Nature.
What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [Nature 1 (1869): 9–11]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 35—8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6988 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 November [1869] and n. 13. Hooker was working on The student’s flora of the British Islands ( J. D. Hooker 1870 ); see letter from J. D. Hooker, 11 …
- … 11 October 1868] . James Hector had taken some responsibility for Hooker’s son, William Henslow Hooker , while he was in New Zealand (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 24 June 1869 , 17 July 1869 , and 13 …
To J. D. Hooker 22 December [1865]
Summary
Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.
Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.
Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 278, 278b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4953 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11, Appendix VI). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 and n. 22, and letter to …
- … letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 , n. 5. For the diploma, see Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix III. CD was elected a corresponding member of the Königliche-Preussiche Akademie der Wissenschaften in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To Daniel Sharpe [23 January 1847]
Summary
Comments on manuscript [? "On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1849): 111–29]. Discusses phenomenon of cleavage. Will write to J. D. Forbes about DS’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [23 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (PEARSON/10/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1083 |
From W. E. Darwin [15 January 1877]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10794F |
To John Scott 25 [July 1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 [July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B45–6, B69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4253 |
From H. C. Watson 8 November 1855
Summary
Artificiality of orders and genera in botany.
Difficulties in numerical analysis of close species in large and small genera.
HCW has "pretty strong bias towards the view that species are not immutably distinct".
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1775 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 January 1864]
Summary
CD’s illness.
The difficulty of getting John Scott to publish his work. Has sent Scott’s paper [on Primulaceae] to Linnean Society. CD is sure it is valuable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4397 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11, Appendix VI). CD refers to John Scott , Scott 1864a , and the Linnean Society . See letter from John Scott, [13 January 1864] and nn. 5 and 6. See letter …
- … letter from John Scott, [13 January 1864] and nn. 4, 5, and 6. CD refers to number 10 (pp. 239–328) of Spencer 1864–7 , vol. 1. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and nn. 3–8. See Correspondence vol. 11, …
From J. B. Innes 17 December [1863]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4357 |
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