To M. J. Berkeley [26 November 1840]
Summary
Remarks that each of two species of Fagus separated by 1000 miles has a fungus that grows on it; the fungus species are probably closely allied.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | [26 Nov 1840] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-583 |
To Charles Babbage 26 May [1840]
Summary
Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
Date: | 26 May [1840] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570 |
To J. S. Henslow [26 January 1842]
Summary
CD relates that Robert Brown is anxious to have [C. M.] Leman[n] elected librarian of the Linnean Society and urges JSH to come to vote for him. CD joins in the request.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [26 Jan 1842] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-615 |
To William Herbert 26 June 1839
Summary
CD is led to believe there are no true permanently inbreeding, sexually reproducing beings. Thanks for replies to breeding questions.
Asks for clarification of Hippeastrum crosses: is selfing or crossing with individual of same species intended and was increased fertility due to constitution of foreign parent or due to the pollen coming from another plant? Has WH known any hybrid or mongrel to revert or to vary in a manner unlikely to be effect of soil?
Sends Journal of researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
Date: | 26 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-523 |
From Asa Gray 29 December 1862
Summary
Encloses maize seeds.
Has heard of a butterfly with pollinia of Platanthera stuck to it.
Comments on AG’s notes ["Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50].
"Precocious fertilisation".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3882 |
To Ernst Krause 30 July 1880
Summary
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 30 July 1880 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675 |
From Francis Darwin [after 7 July 1878]
Summary
Sleep in Porlieria studied.
Oats begin germinating.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.7: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11596 |
From G. H. Darwin 25 April 1876
Summary
Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10472 |
From Charles Loring Brace 29 April 1867
Author: | Charles Loring Brace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5518 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [February 1881]
Summary
Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Feb 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 509–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13067 |
To B. D. Walsh 23 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for Agassiz’s Lectures. Lyell does not believe a word about glacial action of any kind in lowlands of Brazil. Agassiz’s view of glacial movement has been given up by physicists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 23 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5455 |
From George Cupples 12 March 1874
Summary
Promises answers to CD queries on dogs.
Enclosure 1: G. A. Graham responds to CD’s questions (transmitted by GC) on greyhound breeding and proportion of sexes reared.
Enclosure 2: J. W. Robertson’s general rule has been to preserve male deerhound puppies in preference to females.
Enclosure 3: Proportion of sexes in dog litters [for Descent, 2d ed.] from W. Forbes.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 302; DAR 90: 114–16, 119–26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9356 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh [25 February 1867]
Summary
Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.
Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5419 |
From J. V. Carus 28 May 1871
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7774 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11 13 26 15 10 30 12 16 32 and so forth I am sorry to say that also in the Index there is …
- … 12 branches to the right, 10 branches to left antler is always called a 24-ender, although in fact he has only 22. In complete accordance with this custom the list before me gives the following details respecting the pair of antlers in question. number of branches number of branches of both ! right left antlers 27 33 66 ! with other pairs you find for instance 13 10 26 …
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
To Arnold Dodel-Port 12 February 1879
Summary
Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11877 |
To R. D. Fitzgerald 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks RDF for a part of his book [Australian orchids, vol. 1 (1875–82)]; suggests further observations RDF could make and defends some of his own conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert David Fitzgerald |
Date: | 16 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10069 |
From J. D. Hooker [14 December 1862]
Summary
On Asa Gray’s letter; has written why he avoids alluding to the war.
Has read Max Müller [see 3752] – last part unphilosophical.
On CD’s pigeon example, long-beaked and short-beaked pigeons must be either sterile or not inter se. There is "no such thing as Equality – hence no such thing as chance and Nat. Sel. is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head if you make a slip in your premisses."
Has read note on Lythrum sent several weeks ago. Its consequences are of most prolific order to CD’s doctrine.
Kew has no wild gooseberries.
JDH praises the Saturday Review reply [14 (1862): 589] to the Duke of Argyll’s bitter review of Orchids ["The supernatural", Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3846 |
From Ernst Haeckel 28 January 1866
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.
Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.
Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4985 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of 9 [July 1864] and 26 October 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). Dohrn was a student of …
- … vol. 12, letters from Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] , 10 August 1864 , and 26 October …
- … 12). On the reception of CD’s theory in Germany, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 …
- … 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000. Dohrn, Anton. 1865. Die Darwin’sche Theorie und das Experiment. Entomologische Zeitung 26: …
From Fritz Müller 12 January 1869
Summary
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6549 |
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